Biden: US strikes aim to deter Iran and its militias
US President Joe Biden considered that his country’s strikes in Iraq and Syria come within the framework of deterring Iran and its loyal militias.
Yesterday, Biden said, in a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives: “He has ordered military strikes, on June 27, on facilities in two military sites in Syria, and a site in Iraq near the Iraqi-Syrian border, controlled by militias loyal to Iran.”
He added, “The sites controlled by militias loyal to Iran were targeted, after they were used in a series of air and missile attacks against US military forces and facilities in Iraq.”
Biden stressed that the US strikes come within the framework of defense and protection of US personnel, and to deter and weaken Iran and its militias to disrupt the ongoing attacks on the interests of his country and its partners in the region.
And the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield, told the Security Council that her country targeted Iranian-backed militias to prevent them from targeting and carrying out more attacks targeting American forces and interests in the region.
Last Monday, the US Department of Defense announced that the US military had directed air strikes, at the direction of the president, on military sites controlled by pro-Iranian militias inside the border areas in Syria and Iraq.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said: “His country is certain that the sites that were targeted in Syria and Iraq are linked to the air attacks by drones that target American interests.”
And pro-Iranian militias vowed to respond to the American air strikes that targeted their sites in Syria and Iraq, and the American forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces stationed at the base of the Al-Omar oil field were subjected to a missile attack on Monday, with no casualties recorded, according to what was confirmed by “Wayne Maroto,” a spokesman for the operation’
Solid Resolve” of the International Coalition.
The recent strikes are the second of their kind since US President Joe Biden took office on the twentieth of last January.
