Joe Biden green lights US revenge strikes on Iranian targets in Middle East | World | News
US President Joe Biden has authorised strikes against Iranian targets in the Middle East after three US service members were killed in a drone strike launched by an Iran-backed terror group.
While it’s not thought the strikes will be within Iran itself, Iranian personnel inside Iraq and Syria are likely to be targeted, officials told CBS.
US Defence Secretary Llyod Austin said the attacks will be “multi-tiered”, adding: “We have the ability to respond a number of times depending on what the situation is.”
He continued: “There is a lot of activity in the region but there has always been activity in the region.”
The Biden administration has been criticized for waiting until US troops were killed before escalating its response to groups in the Middle East. Austin claimed the US has “responded a number of times” but will now “take away even more capability”.
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Iran threatened to “decisively respond” to any US attack on the Islamic Republic after the US said it held Tehran responsible.
The US has signalled it is preparing for retaliatory strikes in the Mideast in the wake of the Sunday drone attack that also wounded more than 40 troops at Tower 22, a secretive base in northeastern Jordan that’s been crucial to the American presence in neighbouring Syria.
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