Few believe that the Biden Administration won’t attack Iran now. This in response to the Iranian-backed militias attacking, and killing three U.S. Soldiers at a U.S. Outpost in Jordan this past Sunday. The world holds its breath as it awaits Biden’s response.
If you don’t think that this could go badly for the U.S. then think again. The last thing we need right now is to get drug into another Middle East War. But unless something changes this is where we are headed.
"Get ready, we are going to ATTACK Iran" Col. Douglas MacGregor | Redacted with Clayton Morris
Redacted Jan 31, 2024
President Biden says he's decided to attack Iran in response to the killing of three American soldiers. Biden says he's not going to tell us when the attack will come. The Pentagon says they have no evidence that Iran was responsible. Col. Douglas MacGregor joins for the very latest.
Opening excerpts from the transcript.
Clayton Morris:
Welcome Colonel Douglas MacGregor. Colonel I just want to first of all get your response, your reaction to what's been happening over the past few hours. The Pentagon admitting, well, we have no proof that Iran was tied to this specific incident. But you know they've got a, they've got a history, so of course they're probably related to it. And therefore we need to launch, and hit them hard.
The president we don't want to get out in front of what the president is going to do but the president clearly is going to attack Iran in some capacity. We just don't know what exactly what it will be. And Iran's saying we have no involvement in it.
So just give me your reaction first of all to that back and forth.
Colonel MacGregor:
Well facts have never really mattered in Washington. If Washington wants to do
something they're going to do it. And we need to keep in mind that certainly over the last 20 years there's been a concerted effort to bring on war with Iran I mean this is nothing new Iran has been depicted as evil incarnate as responsible for everything that's bad in the region and since it is viewed as Israel's not only but principal opponent Israel's agents in the United States.
Tehran warns Biden that if US strikes Iranian soil in retaliation for death of three soldiers the Islamist regime will hit back at American targets across the Middle East - sparking all-out war between the foes
By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 19:29 EST, 30 January 2024 | UPDATED: 20:57 EST, 30 January 2024
Tehran has told Washington, via intermediaries, that it will attack U.S. targets in the Middle East if the Pentagon launches strikes on Iranian soil
Joe Biden on Tuesday said that he had made up his mind about how to respond to Sunday's killing of three U.S. service members by an Iranian-backed militia
The strikes are expected to take place over time, and in waves: targets could include Iranian naval vessels in the Persian Gulf, or a cyberattack
Iran has told the United States through intermediaries that any strike on its own soil would cross a red line and provoke reprisals on American targets in the region, according to a report.
The grim warning came as the world holds its breath to see how Joe Biden will respond to the killing of three U.S. soldiers by Iranian-backed militias.
Biden on Tuesday said he had already made his decision regarding reprisals for the deaths on Sunday - but did not disclose what it was.
He spent Monday sequestered with his military and national security advisers weighing up a range of options drawn up and debated over decades: among them striking Iranian assets in the Persian Gulf; taking on Iran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq; launching a cyberattack and - the most fraught option - launching strikes on Iranian territory, to take out commanders and key military sites.
On Tuesday, The Guardian reported that Tehran has told Washington via intermediaries that if it strikes Iranian territory directly, Tehran will itself hit back at American assets in the Middle East.
Biden and his team have insisted the U.S. is trying to avoid escalation, and the president does not want another war to deal with - especially in an election year.
'I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East, that's not what I'm looking for,' he said on Tuesday at the White House.
Pressed about concerns raised by his own administration about the risks of escalation, the president replied: 'We'll see.'
Administration officials are saying that the reprisals will be carried out over time, in a series of strikes.
Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, said on Monday: 'We will respond decisively to any aggression, and we will hold responsible the people who attacked our troops. That response could be multileveled, come in stages and be sustained over time.'
A U.S. official told ABC News the strikes will be carried out 'over the course of several days', and hit 'multiple targets.'
The official would not specify if the targets are inside or outside of Iran, but added: 'These are going to be very deliberate targets - deliberate strikes on facilities that enabled these attacks' on U.S. forces.
There have been over 160 attacks launched by Iranian-backed militias on U.S. targets in Iraq, Syria and Jordan since the October 7 terror attack.
The various militia groups, which call themselves the 'Axis of Resistance', say they are attacking the U.S. to force them to end their support for Israel's war in Gaza. Analysts say Iran is simply taking advantage of the chaos.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's foreign minister, said he felt Iran was winning people over to its way of thinking.
He said the White House knew well that 'a political solution' was required to end the horrors in the Gaza Strip and the wider issues in the Middle East.
'Diplomacy is moving forward on this path,' he said. 'Benjamin Netanyahu is nearing the end of his criminal political life.'
Iran's deputy interior minister, Seyyed Majid Mirahmadi, held a meeting with his Syrian counterparts, amid acknowledgment that an attack on Iranian-backed militias in Syria was the most likely path.
Mirahmadi and his Syrian allies discussed the crisis and insisted the 'Axis of Resistance' was on the verge of victory, The Guardian reported.
And Javad Zarif, the former Iranian foreign minister, said he believed Israel's 'aura of invincibility' had cracked.
'The foreign policy of the Israeli regime is based on two axes: oppression and invincibility,' he said.
The three U.S. service members killed in Sunday's attack on a base in Jordan have been named as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia - all from an Army Reserve engineering unit from Georgia.
The White House on Tuesday said that Biden has spoken to the families of all three, and they agreed to his request to attend the 'dignified transfer' ceremony, when their remains land back in the United States at Dover Air Force base.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday the militias 'do not take orders' from Iran and act independently.
But Tehran is widely known to be the driving force for the attacks on the U.S. targets. Biden's own aides, according to The New York Times, admit the efforts to hit targets in the region in response to drone and missile attacks - to 'restore deterrence,' the administration says - have failed.
Iran has suggested any strikes within Iran itself would cross a red line. Former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash said escalation is 'unavoidable'.
He said: Biden 'cannot avoid the international challenges even in an election year.'
He added: 'There is a sense that our deterrence measures to date have not been received by Tehran as we hoped, so escalation is unavoidable.'
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