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BGTN > International > Biden blames Iran-backed militants for deadly drone strike in Jordan
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Biden blames Iran-backed militants for deadly drone strike in Jordan

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Last updated: January 29, 2024 12:53 pm
By AFP
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US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on January 28, 2024 as he returns from South Carolina. (Photo by Kent Nishimura / AFP)
US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on January 28, 2024 as he returns from South Carolina. (Photo by Kent Nishimura / AFP)
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A drone attack on a base in Jordan killed three American troops, with President Joe Biden blaming Iran-backed militants for the first US military deaths in the region since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Iran said it had nothing to do with the attack and denied US and British accusations that it supported militant groups responsible for the strike on the remote frontier base in Jordan’s northeast, near the borders with Iraq and Syria.

“While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq,” Biden said in a statement, pledging to hold “all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing”.

Biden later held a moment of silence at a South Carolina church banquet hall for the US troops killed in the attack, vowing: “We shall respond.”

With the region already tense as fighting rages in Gaza, the strike also raises fears of a broader conflict directly involving Tehran.

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There has so far been no claim of responsibility for the strike but British Foreign Secretary David Cameron reiterated a call for Iran “to de-escalate in the region”.

He also condemned the attack “by Iran-aligned militia groups” in a post on social media platform X.

Iran denied any links to the attack, with foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani describing the accusations as “baseless” and a “projection”.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran does not welcome the expansion of conflict in the region,” said Kanani in a statement, adding that Tehran “is not involved in the decisions of the resistance groups”.

Iran executed four men at dawn on Monday after they were convicted of spying for Israel, the judiciary’s website Mizan Online reported.

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‘Regional explosion’

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the Jordan attack was “a message to the American administration”.

“The continuation of the American-Zionist aggression on Gaza risks a regional explosion,” Abu Zuhri said.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said late on Sunday the attack had hit the remote Tower 22 logistics support base and that 34 personnel were also wounded, eight of whom required evacuation.

There are around 350 US Army and Air Force personnel at the base who operate in support roles, including for the international coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group, CENTCOM said.

Jordan’s government spokesman Muhannad Mubaidin condemned the attack, as did Bahrain and Egypt.

The escalating Middle East conflict poses a challenge to Biden in an election year.

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Republican politicians were quick to take aim at Biden over the deadly attack, including his predecessor Donald Trump, who described the situation as a “consequence of Joe Biden’s weakness and surrender”.

US and allied forces in Iraq and Syria have been targeted in more than 150 attacks since mid-October, according to the Pentagon, and Washington has carried out retaliatory strikes in both countries.

Many of the attacks on US personnel have been claimed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose alliance of Iran-linked armed groups that oppose US support for Israel in the Gaza conflict.

The latest round of the Israel-Hamas conflict began when the Palestinian militant group carried out an unprecedented attack on October 7 that resulted in about 1,140 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official figures.

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Israel retaliated with a relentless military offensive that has killed at least 26,422 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to the territory’s health ministry.

Anger over that campaign has grown across the region, with violence involving Iran-backed groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, as well as Yemen.

There have been near-daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon. US forces are directly involved in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

The United States and Britain have both carried out strikes targeting Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels, who have been attacking Red Sea shipping in support of Palestinians in Gaza for more than two months.

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