President Biden’s decision to order airstrikes targeting facilities near the Iraq-Syria border that have been used by Iran-backed militia groups was a clear warning to Tehran while the administration continues to negotiate to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
Lawrence J. Korb, the senior fellow at American Progress Action Fund and a former assistant secretary of defense, said in an interview that the airstrikes—carried out by fighter-bombers—were essentially Biden “serving notice” to Tehran.
“The first time he used military force was about a month after he was inaugurated,” Korb told Al Jazeera. “I think it was no accident that he did it then to send that signal to Iran. The fact that he’s doing it now while they are about to undergo the seventh round of talks on the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] is him saying: ‘Just because we are there, it doesn’t mean we are going to ignore [these other problems].”
Here we go again.
Good to know the adults are back in control of the military. Except for Syrian babies, theyre fun to blow up apparently.
PS: For SOME REASON CNN doesn’t find this newsworthy. Not reporting it AT ALL.
h/t BuildBackBetter