“Iran is playing with fire”: Pressure on Washington to push it to respond

POSTED ON2023-11-02 BY SOTALIRAQ

[size=52]“Iran is playing with fire”: Pressure on Washington to push it to respond[/size]

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November 1, 2023 Reports
The British newspaper “The Guardian” considered that the attacks carried out by militants linked to Iran, which led to the injury of dozens of American soldiers and the death of one, raise fears that the operations of Iran’s regional agent network may lead to escalation of tension and the outbreak of a regional fire in the region.[/size]
[size=45]The British report mentioned the attacks carried out during the past few days against American bases in Iraq and Syria, which caused the Pentagon to withdraw its announcement, wounding 24 American soldiers and killing a civilian contractor, while Washington is sending anti-missile batteries to the region to protect its main bases and its allies. The report quoted the researcher. In the American “Middle East Institute,” Charles Lister said that “American hands are tied.”[/size]
[size=45]Lister explained, “More than twenty US soldiers have now been injured. If the circumstances were different, she would have responded, but her hands are tied because she does not want to bear responsibility for the escalation. “The United States government is deeply concerned that we are headed toward a regional crisis.”[/size]
[size=45]The report quoted Lister as saying, “These attacks show that Iran has a vast network of well-armed, aggressive, and well-coordinated proxies throughout the region that it has formed for exactly this scenario,” adding, “They are currently testing the red lines but are not pressing too hard.” “They are putting the onus on the United States to respond.”[/size]
[size=45]The report stated that President Joe Biden has already ordered sending two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean, where American officials are said to have asked Israel to postpone the ground invasion until new American anti-missile units arrive in the region, adding that even before Israeli forces launched the ground attack on Gaza, The rising death toll is likely to lead to further escalation.[/size]
[size=45]After the report pointed out that one of the groups based in Iraq and supported by Iran, and believed to be working as a front for the Iraqi Hezbollah faction, issued a statement threatening[/size]
[size=45]By launching attacks on American military bases in the Emirates and Kuwait, he indicated that armed militia groups had been deployed in Syria near the Golan Heights, in another threatening step. The report also referred to the tripartite meeting held last Wednesday in Beirut between the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hamas movement, Saleh Al-Arouri, and the leader of the Palestinian Jihad movement, Ziad Nakhalah. They stressed the necessity of achieving victory in Gaza and Palestine and stopping the “treacherous aggression.”[/size]
[size=45]The report quoted Tobias Burke, a security researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in London, as saying that Iran is “literally playing with fire,” adding that “what we are seeing is the next level of the Gaza war, where the goal is to show solidarity, so that Iran is as if saying it sees aircraft carriers.” But she's not afraid and we can hurt you too. “It is very dangerous.”[/size]
[size=45]According to Burke also, “Many people must understand that Tehran is the one pulling the strings, but the reality is that these are partners who share a worldview and ideology, and among its elements, they wear the mantle of claiming opposition to the regime imposed by the West in the region.”[/size]
[size=45]After the report referred to the Israeli raids on Syria and the launching of missiles from Syrian territory towards the Golan Heights, the report said that “the impression was reinforced of the existence of an increasing regional conflict.”[/size]
[size=45]He also pointed out the exchange of clashes between the Israeli forces and the Lebanese Hezbollah on the border, while it appears that both sides are “trying to avoid escalation.” However, the Israeli army said that it would strongly criticize if the party launched a cross-border attack from Lebanon, even though the Israelis feared the party’s arsenal consisting of About 150 thousand missiles and missiles.[/size]
[size=45]The report concluded by noting that the White House said it was monitoring “an escalation in missile and drone attacks by Iranian-backed groups against military bases that house American personnel in Iraq and Syria,” expressing “deep concern about the possibility of any significant escalation of these attacks in the coming days.” “Coming,” at a time when an American warship in the northern Red Sea intercepted missiles fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis from Yemen, possibly at Israel.[/size]
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