{"id":1454153,"date":"2024-01-30T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1454153"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:05:00","slug":"moment-of-no-return-imminent-as-biden-has-decided-on-response-says-iran-supplied-weapons-used-in-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/moment-of-no-return-imminent-as-biden-has-decided-on-response-says-iran-supplied-weapons-used-in-attacks\/1454153\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Moment Of No Return’ Imminent As Biden Has ‘Decided’ On Response, Says Iran Supplied Weapons Used In Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Moment Of No Return’ Imminent As Biden Has ‘Decided’ On Response, Says Iran Supplied Weapons Used In Attacks<\/span><\/p>\n

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A “decision” has been made, apparently, with CBS reporting: “Biden tells reporters that he has decided on how to respond to the attack that killed US troops in Jordan<\/strong>.” And Sky News<\/em> writes,\u00a0‘Moment of no return approaching’<\/strong> as Biden weighs retaliation for soldier deaths.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Biden said the White House sees Iran as responsible for supplying the weapons used in the drone strike<\/strong> on the Tower 22 base along the Jordan-Syria border, an attack which also saw over 40 American troops injured.<\/p>\n

Image source:\u00a0Eyepress Images<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Admin officials have repeatedly asserted they do not seek wider war with Iran<\/strong>, even while direct accusations fly against Tehran, and there’s talk of military ‘options’ and warlike threats go over the airwaves.<\/p>\n

…because “pressure,”<\/em> writes Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>: “US President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0faces intensifying pressure to confront Iran directly after the country\u2019s proxies killed three American soldiers in a drone strike in Jordan over the weekend, risking precisely the wider regional conflict that he\u2019s trying to avoid.”<\/p>\n

“A person familiar with the US position, who asked not to be identified discussing private discussions, said it was clear that a strike \u2014 which also\u00a0wounded<\/a>\u00a0at least 34 \u2014 would force a stronger response than what the US has done so far in the weeks,” continues Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Currently, the reporting consensus seems to be that Biden will order major strikes against various Iranian ‘proxy’ positions especially in Iraq and Syria<\/strong>. In the immediate aftermath of the Sunday drone attack on the US Tower 22 base, there were reports that Iran-aligned militias were temporarily evacuating bases in the region.<\/p>\n

Biden on the White House lawn Tuesday: “I do hold them [Iran] responsible in the sense that…<\/em><\/p>\n

BREAKING: President Biden says he has made a decision on how to respond to the drone attack in Jordan and that he holds Iran responsible. pic.twitter.com\/uR1Jhdzy03<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

US and coalition forces could at the same time launch another major round of airstrikes against Houthi positions in Yemen, amid continued targeting of Red Sea shipping.<\/p>\n

The only question that remains is timing… when will the bombs fly?\u00a0<\/strong>At this point it’s a certainty. A proverbial “moment of no return” is fast approaching. Historians could look back on this pivotal moment and see it as the point at which the Gaza war spiraled into a broader Middle East enduring conflict.<\/p>\n

Tragic as any loss of American life is, one regional analyst points out the following sure to be unpopular truth…<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a superpower that can\u2019t suffer an average rate of one dead soldier per 38 days of intense regional conflict without behaving like you\u2019ve arrived at a 9\/11-type decision point<\/strong>, maybe massive military entanglements in the Middle East are not for you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This gets at an asymmetry between the U.S. and its regional adversaries that advantages the latter, and regularly frustrates U.S. efforts to establish deterrence: these groups are weaker, but they have a sky-high pain tolerance.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re from here! They have people ready to die! https:\/\/t.co\/9hmm7Gq77P<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sam Heller | \u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0647\u064a\u0644\u0631 (@AbuJamajem) January 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has denied that Tehran was behind the drone strike<\/strong> and killing of Americans: “As we have clearly stated before, the resistance groups in the region are responding [to] the war crimes and genocide of the child-killing Zionist regime and\u2026 they do not take orders from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He further asserted: “These groups decide and act based on their own principles and priorities as well as the interests of their country and people.”<\/p>\n

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Below is some commentary on the ‘dilemma’ from Rabobank…<\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s then start Blinken – which is that the US is doing when the US Secretary of State states, \u201cThe response against Iran could be multi-levelled and come in stages and be sustained over time.\u201d Operation Praying Mantis, where the US sank half the Iranian fleet in a day in the 1980s, it won\u2019t be: Operation Praying Man, \u2018tis. Because while the White House counts its dead, injured and loss of deterrence at the hands of Iran-backed forces –as Tehran says it didn\u2019t do it– it\u2019s also counting the cost of a war that would not only not be over by the 2024 election, where higher oil prices would likely mean Biden loses, but might still be going on in 2028.<\/p>\n

Markets will therefore be relieved as Bloomberg, both accurately and ridiculously, says the US aims to find a way to bomb Iran just enough to show it\u2019s angry without doing real damage – so \u2018politesse\u2019, not real politics. But risks remain: bomb too much \u2013 war; bomb too little \u2013 more Iran pushback until we trigger that same war; and it\u2019s not clear if there is a sweet-spot between the two<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 01\/30\/2024 – 12:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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