The strikes are thought to have been conducted by U.S.based B-1 bombers
Dan Sabbagh and Julian Borger – The Guardian Feb 3, 2024
Joe Biden has warned “if you harm an American, we will respond” as US forces attacked more than 80 targets in Iraq and Syria in a wide-ranging air assault on sites belonging to Iran-linked militias and Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard.
The US president said the strikes had been launched in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three US troops in Jordan, adding: “Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing.”
The US military’s Central Command said it had struck with more than 125 bombs in an attack that took place around midnight local time in what was described as the first of multiple attacks against the groups.
“US military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from United States,” Centcom said in a statement. The raids were aimed at facilities believed to be controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups.
Targets included command and control operations, intelligence centres, rockets and missiles, logistics and munition supply chain facilities, Centcom said, but it was not clear how accurate the attacks were or what casualties they had caused.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups continue to represent a direct threat to the stability of Iraq, the region, and the safety of Americans. We will continue to take action, do whatever is necessary to protect our people, and… pic.twitter.com/Y53nvRfjjx
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) February 3, 2024
Initial reports from the ground were limited. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said at least 18 pro-Iran fighters were killed in eastern Syria during strikes believed carried out by the US.
At least 26 major sites housing pro-Iranian groups were destroyed in Syria, including weapons depots, the Observatory said. Warplanes destroyed 17 positions in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, three attacks targeting al-Mayadeen and one striking Albu Kamal, near the Iraqi border.
A weapons warehouse and a command centre belonging to pro-Iranian groups were also targeted in western Iraq, along the Syrian border, resulting in at least “some injuries”, two Iraqi security sources told Agence France-Presse.
An Iraqi military spokesperson, Yahya Rasool, said US airstrikes were launched at Iraqi border areas and warned that the attacks could ignite instability in the region. “These airstrikes constitute a violation of Iraqi sovereignty, undermine the efforts of the Iraqi government and pose a threat that could lead Iraq and the region into dire consequences.”
US officials told CNN that the US had no plan to bomb Iran, which would represent a significant escalation. Administration officials have repeatedly stressed that Washington does not intend to go to war with Iran, despite the accusation that it had armed the groups behind the Tower 22 attack.
Iran has also previously warned the US not to launch any direct strike on Iranian territory, warning of a swift and dramatic response if the US did so.
Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, emphasised that further bombing raids were planned. “This is the start of our response,” he said, adding that “the president has directed additional actions” against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and what it called affiliated militias accountable for their attacks on US and allied forces.
John Kirby, the White House national security spokesman, said the strikes lasted about 30 minutes. “These responses began tonight. They’re not going to end tonight. So there will be additional responses. There will be additional action that we will take, all designed to put an end to these attacks and to take away capability by the IRGC.”
The 85 targets were grouped in seven different locations: four in Syria and three in Iraq, according to US officials. Lt Gen Douglas Sims, director for operations on the joint staff, said the timing of the strikes was determined by the weather.
“The initial indications are that we hit exactly what we meant to hit with a number of secondary explosions associated with the ammunition and logistics locations,” Sims said, although this could not be verified.
On Thursday, the US said it blamed Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iran-linked militias, for the deadly drone attack last weekend on the remote Tower 22 logistics base in Jordan, near the border with Syria and Iraq. Three US army reservists were killed after living quarters were struck at night and more than 80 wounded.
Biden promised on Tuesday there would be a military response, and on Thursday Austin said it would be “multi-tier”, adding: “We look to hold the people responsible for this accountable.”
US bases in Iraq and Syria have been attacked more than 165 times since 7 October, the start of the Israel-Hamas war, by militias in the two countries who are linked to Iran. However, on Tuesday, Kataib Hezbollah, the Iranian group suspected by the US of conducting the Tower 22 attack, said it had suspended military activity against the “occupying forces”.
It said it wanted to avoid embarrassing the Iraqi government, which has in the past publicly complained about US retaliatory strikes against Iran-linked militias, arguing they amounted to a violation of its sovereignty.
The airstrikes only came on Friday night, a few hours after Biden attended a solemn military ritual at a Delaware airbase for the return of the three dead soldiers. Biden did not speak at the tribute, but did meet with families of those who had been killed.
Although the US is free from its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, surging tensions in the Middle East, sparked by the Israel-Hamas fighting, threaten to drag American forces back into regional conflict.
Iran will do nothing in retaliation guaranteed. Every one of them all talk and no action.
Iran will do nothing in retaliation guaranteed. Every one of them all talk and no action.
As pointed out on last night’s Judging Freedom round table, these attacks will hit some dust. As pointed out during the discussion, the US has done this before. They call Ruusia, Russia then calls Syria, and the various groups, they move, no one, or very few gets hit.
Israeli strikes, maybe they are hitting targets in Damascus. We will see, but if they are, it just drags Russia into the mire.
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Hmmm, interestingly none of the alleged attacks were on Iran itself. The US military scared maybe?
Joe Biden has warned “if you harm an American, we will respond” – as long as no negro or other invader was responsible that is.
The only interesting thing here was the use of the giant swing wing bombers B1.
Presumably there was a strategic reason for using this particular plane….which rarely gets a mention (the Russians have a similar plane)
Strange they are “awfully concerned” about the three troops killed when there were about a dozen US troops killed in the final stages of fleeing Afghanistan…..doesn’t add up does it.
(There was the infamous case a few years ago when a whole helicopter crashed carrying highly trained US Special forces.)
So concern about US fatalities seems to be selective???.
Obviously it is not Biden making decisions…..the brain damaged imbecile is not in control….OBVIOUSLY!.
IMAGINE…working for the US forces….you couldn’t trust the executive to put the troops welfare first.This is all to do with what’s going on in Washingstein.
So what is this REALLY about?…Israel of course….as usual.
US in new war crimes have Holocausted yet more Semitic Iraqis and Syrians who are trying to expel US from their countries which USn invaded illegally, continue illegally occupying despite both the Iraqis and Syrians calling for the end of the US’s illegal criminal military occupations of their countries.
Seems to me it is time for Nuremberg Common Law Tribunals. to be convened, the guilty of war crime arrested, given fair trials followed by fair expedient hangings.
What they don’t tell you is that Iran & all these ‘Arab/Muslim’ nations are ruled by Donmeh (Jew ‘converts’ to Islam), similar to how Conversos (Jew converts to Christianity) infiltrated/coopted the West or white nations. Ergo both/all ‘sides’ (NATO/OIC/BRICS) are in on it dialectically advancing Zionist-Jewish politico-religious objectives unbeknownst to the moronic masses of the world.
All done in the hope of starting a major war for Israel and the Western oil & gas plundering with Iran next on the hit list.
You really have to wonder if the Oct 7 assault of Hamas and the insane ethnic-cleansing and genocide response of Israel was planned by Israel and the US-led West to polarize sides just for such a war. However, if the Arab nations were more united and tell the US to FO and go home US would have to back down, and Israel would have to make amends in Gaza first by stopping the genocide and their ethnic-cleansing operations.
Ha..
The rather grand sounding Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is actually some syrian arab CiA stooge kicked out of Syria by Assad… with an axe to grind..
working from a laptop next to his gas fire and prayer mat in his semi detached living room in middlesex…probably paid by social security..gratis..as usual..
..just like Bellingcat another UK security services shoestring much quoted by the maggots in the vermin media.. run out of a bedsit in some London slum.. by some imbecile with his thumb up his arse..
@ Eichman- For a tribe allegedly on 2% of the population, they sure have a lot of clout.
Pedo Joe Bribem “has warned ‘if you harm an American, we will respond’”, eh? Then we should expect Israhell and Washingstein DC to be bombed into oblivion, Jewry to be targeted for utter annihilation, and demonic scum like Bill Gatestein, Klown Schlob, George Soreass, Anthony Fauxci, Rochelle Walensky, Albert Bourla and the rest of the Pharma psychos to be chased through the streets and butchered.
Pedo Joe can top off the vengeance against those who have harmed Americunts with a rousing simultaneous group murder-suicide with him, Obunghole, Michael Robinson, Shrillary Cunton, Dick Cheney, Chuck Schumer, and Lindsey Limpwrist Graham all shooting each other in the face at the same time. Kackiling Kamala the Klown can be on stand-by to crank another round into any of them still breathing, then give her pistol a blowjob and bring it to an explosive climax.
Then we had the bloviating assholes at Central Command doing what assholes do, i.e. spewing shit. “Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups continue to represent a direct threat to the stability of Iraq.” Hardy har har. What they conveniently failed to mention was how they were responsible for destroying Iraq in the first place and causing massive instability in the course of their crimes against humanity. But the Jew wanted Iraq degraded and destroyed, so the Jewnited States did exactly that.
i think perhaps of all the things a oolice state can do to its citizens
distorting history with lies is possibly the most pernicious
Robert Heinlien
Read what the government of Syria said they bombed, stop reading the MSM bullcrap – like the article posted by admin.
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Syria: US aggression has no justification, proves its collusion with Daesh terrorists
Syria has strongly condemned the United States’ strikes against the country, saying they are deliberately aimed at weakening Damascus’ fight against Takfiri terrorist groups, especially Daesh.
The Syrian military made the remarks in a statement on Saturday after the US conducted a raft of airstrikes against the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr and the city of al-Bukamal near the Iraqi border.
US says it carried out airstrikes on 85 targets inside Iraq and Syria
US says it carried out airstrikes on 85 targets inside Iraq and Syria
The US says it has carried out airstrikes on 85 targets inside Iraq and Syria.
“The US aggression today dawn has no justification, but is an attempt to weaken the Syrian army’s capability to fight terrorism,” the statement said.
The Syrian army added that those regions that were targeted by US strikes “are the same where the Syrian army fights remnants of the Daesh terrorist group, and this confirms that the US is in cahoots and allied with this group.”
The US-created terror group unleashed a campaign of bloodshed and destruction against Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, overrunning swathes of their territories.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/03/719438/Syria-United-States-attacks-Daesh
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The USGov once again committed a huge war crime for the Zionists and Israel. Pay no attention to the US MSM news – they are lying their asses off about what just happened and who they targeted.
https://sana.sy/en/
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https://sana.sy/en/?p=324724
Russia condemns US aggression in Syria and Iraq, requests an emergency UNSC meeting
3 February، 2024
Moscow, SANA- Russia condemned the US aerial aggression on sites in Syria and Iraq and called for holding an emergency UN Security Council meeting to discuss the issue.
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This next story proves that US and Israel are intentionally targeting historical sites:
US aggression causes damage to al-Rahba historic citadel in Deir Ezzor
3 February، 2024
Damascus, SANA- The Ministry of Culture condemned in the strongest terms the US blatant aerial aggression on the historic Citadel of al-Rahba, located on the bank of the Euphrates River in al-Mayadeen city, Deir Ezzor.
“The aggression violates all international norms and conventions that require the protection and respect of cultural property in accordance with Article 4 of the 1954 Hague Convention,” the Ministry said in a statement.
The citadel dates back to the 9th century AD.
The US occupation forces launched on Saturday a blatant aerial aggression on a number of sites and towns in the eastern region of Syria, near Iraqi borders, leaving many civilian and military martyrs, inuring others and causing huge damage to private and public properties.
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ISIS is Israel
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=isis+destroying+archelogical+monuments&iax=videos&ia=videos
The CIA were able to topple Mohammed Mosaddeq for the Shah by internal machinations…
When that “didn’t work out”, they replaced him with the Ayatollah. As far as I’m aware, there has been a continuity of leadership since he was parachuted in…
Are we to believe they couldn’t arrange the same for the current Iranian leadership. As the CIA lost its ability for skullduggery? I suggest another idea: that the Iranian leadership is fulfilling exactly the role asked of it, and maybe, as long as they do, it is sufficient for them to carry on as the pantomime villain.
I also make the observation that the ability to examine detailed information is often commendable, but given the level of detail supplied by various “war pundits”, I find rather than begging what the larger questions are, the information leads potential inquirers continually down rabbit holes without benefit. Those ostensibly “enlightening” us all are the essential obfuscators.
Any actual proof of this false flag operation? Or do we just obey the pixels on the screen?