The pro-Iranian coalition Islamic resistance in Iraq claims thedrone attack which hit a strategic American military outpost on Sunday Jordanbut from Teheran comes the denial that it was La who planned the raid Islamic Republic. Declarations, those of the ayatollahs’ regime, which remove at least for the moment the risk of a more serious escalation, with the direct involvement of the United States in a Middle Eastern conflict against the so-called Axis of Resistance. However, it is not the first attack, even in recent months, on American bases and structures in the area at the hands of militias linked to Iran, but the particularly heavy toll, with three soldiers killedimmediately raised the fear of an expansion of the conflict Gaza.
The spokesperson of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Canaanis keen to point out that “these accusations are made with a political objective aimed at overturn the reality of the region” and defined the words of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs as “unfounded”, David Cameronon the involvement of the country of the ayatollahs: “Such non-constructive statements and actions by Western institutional sources are threatening regional and international peace and stability – he added – The rebel groups in the region are responding to the war crimes et al genocide of the Zionist regime and they don’t take orders from Iran. They decide based on their own principles and in the interests of their people.”
The location of the site, the Tower 22, explains how such an attack was possible on Jordanian territory. It is an American outpost located in the Hashemite kingdom, but exactly on the border with Syria e Iraq. This immediately opened up the hypothesis that, therefore, those who struck him were not terrorist groups or cells present in the Hashemite kingdom, historically allied with Washingtonbut militias operating in the two countries dominated by civil wars and the fight against terrorism, where both Sunni extremist organizations and Shiite militias linked to Iran operate and have already attacked American outposts in the past.
Sunday, the president Joe Biden said the investigation is still at an early stage, “but we know that (the attack, ndr) was carried out by Iranian-backed radical militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.” And he then promised that the US will continue “its commitment to the fight against terrorism. We will hold all those responsible to account at the time and in the way we choose.” What this response will consist of is not yet clear: as in the past, it is possible that the military will do so targeted operations to target command centers and militia leaders considered responsible for the attack. It is more unlikely, at least at the moment, that there will be a direct clash with Tehran, both because this would lead to the definitive explosion of a war throughout the Middle East with the involvement of NATO forcesand because there is no political will from the Biden administration to open a third war scenario less than a year before the presidential elections.