Joe Biden’s governor led an overnight airstrike against installations in Syria presumably used by one of the more powerful Middle Eastern militias, repulsed by Iran and known as Kataeb Hezbollah or the Hezbollah Brigades.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck. a strategic attack ante attacks in the interests of stadiums.
A group of Republican congressmen, including Senator Marco Rubio, will celebrate the military action as “specific, proportionate and necessary”.
Since Biden went to the Casa Blanca, militias attacked by Iran had attacked an airport in Saudi Arabia with an explosive drone and were accused of assassinating a critical activist in Lebanon and bombing a military personnel stationed in northern Iraq this month, matando a un contratista.
[EE.UU. señala al príncipe saudita por el asesinato del periodista Jamal Khashoggi]
The military operation takes place when United States studies regain international agreement with Iran to suspend its nuclear program, following the impetus given by President Donald Trump.
What is Biden’s message to Iran and the rest of the region’s lands?
“The president will act to protect the state’s personnel and the coalition,” said John Kirby, the Pentagon’s spokesman.
The bombing takes place during the intense hostilities between EE.UU. and Iran during the Trump administration. In the year 2020, the Army launched an attack that killed a high-ranking Iranian military figure, Qasem Soleimani, in Baghdad. In response, Iran bombed a missile base in Iraq, and in the last months intensified attacks on its militias.
“The attack, a mi modo de ver, establishes the destination of a marcar la pauta con Teherán y do it in your inflated trust before the negotiations“, dijo Bilal Saab, an incompetent Pentagon the current investigator of the Middle East Institute, and statements al diario The Washington Post
In his opinion, Biden must show his interest in summarizing the nuclear agreement in order to ignore Iran’s military activity in the region. “Está marcando su límite”, said Maha Yahya, director of Carnegie Middle East Center and Beirut on the New York Times.
A precise attack, but can you have a conflict on a large scale?
The Pentagon informs you that we dos cazabombarderos F-15 launches missile missiles against the militias attacked by Iran, destroying completely new structures and divisively.
Iranian state television and the Human Rights Observatory Sirio, which monitors the conflict in these countries since its seat in the United Kingdom, informs that 17 fights murieron in the attacks that occurred near Abu Kamal, Syria, just on the other side of the frontier with Iraq.
Syria, summed up in a civil war since a decade ago, is also battlefield of other lands. The lie and the bombardment allegations made with caution, analysts point to the diary citations: send a message to avoid a conflict to mayor escalates.
A serious commentator with seat in Turkey, Abdulkader Dwehe, indicates that the objective was accepted. “Responding in Iraq should open a front that could be difficult to close,” he said during the attack.
The porter of the Pentagon ensures that the attack takes place in a hurry “together with diplomatic mediators“, includes consulting with societies of the coalition led by United States in the region.
Biden’s decision does not appear in any case indicating an intention to increase military participation in the region, but more defends the tropical cities, avoiding golfer to his ally, the Iraqi Governor, in his own territory.
[Irán puede fabricar en sólo un año una bomba atómica capaz de destruir una ciudad de EE.UU.]
The attack takes place while the militias are attacked by Iran, each of which has more objective objectives.
Mick Mulroy, who resigned as the Pentagon’s senior official for the Middle East during the Trump administration and is now an analyst at ABC News, said the attack was likely “calculated and mediated by avoid an escalator and send a message that the use of militias by Iran as a substitute will not allow them to increase responsibility “.
Who are the Hezbollah Brigades?
The attacking militia, Kataeb Hezbollah or Hezbollah Brigades, forms part of the Forces of the Popular Movement. The group was founded after the invasion of Iraq led by EE.UU. of 2003 contradictory Saddam Hussein.
In the last few years, Kataeb Hezbollah has unleashed an important paper against the terrorist group Islamic State and has helped the forces of the Syrian dictator, Bashar Assad, in the conflict in Syria.
The Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis Foundation, a militant Iraqi veteran who was stubbornly allied with Iran and murió in the attack on stadiums in Baghdad in January 2020.
EE.UU. ya había attacked the group antes. In 2019, he killed 25 of his combatants and killed them in a long-range attack on the frontier between Syria and Iraq. Trump’s Gobierno says there will be reprisals over the death of a state contractor in a cohort attack.
A common action of all, from Reagan in adelante
During his first week at the White House, Biden emphasized his intention to focus on the challenges planted by China, including when he mentioned the interests of EE.UU. in the Middle East.
Pero the attack demonstrated that the region will never be part of the agenda of a president of the state: from Ronald Reagan in advance, he all ordered a bombing raid on Middle East lands.
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