The US set multiple goals for its strong response to the killing of three American soldiers in a drone attack in Jordan, but delays over several days after the attack gave enough time to groups operating in the region to be prepared for the US response, NBS cited experts, according to an IRNA report on Saturday.
The news network quoted American officials that they had expected Washington’s retaliatory attacks to take place on targets outside Iran last Sunday, the same day when the drone strike hit an American outpost in the Jordanian side of the border with Syria, killing the three US servicemen and injuring dozens.
The Friday operation was supposed to be the strongest response by the Biden administration against “militias” that have conducted more than 160 attacks on American forces in the region since the Gaza war broke out in early October, NBC said, in reference to the Iraq-based resistance groups which the US has blamed for the Jordan attack.
Those groups have time and again said that their operations against US forces are in response to Washington’s support for the Israeli regime’s crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. The groups are also unhappy with the continued US military presence in Iraq.
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