{"id":94754,"date":"2024-01-31T00:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/joe-biden-is-vowing-to-respond-to-a-drone-attack-that-killed-us-soldiers-what-are-his-options-world-news\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T00:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:23:59","slug":"joe-biden-is-vowing-to-respond-to-a-drone-attack-that-killed-us-soldiers-what-are-his-options-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/joe-biden-is-vowing-to-respond-to-a-drone-attack-that-killed-us-soldiers-what-are-his-options-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden is vowing to respond to a drone attack that killed US soldiers. What are his options? | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joe Biden is vowing to respond to a drone attack that killed US soldiers. What are his options? | World News<\/h2>\n

Joe Biden is vowing to respond to a drone attack that killed US soldiers. What are his options? | World News<\/p>\n

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Joe Biden has promised the US will “respond” to the attack on Tower 22, which left three US military personnel dead and dozens wounded.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the US has already been responding to attack after attack on its bases in the Middle East – and has nevertheless failed to deter them.<\/p>\n

There have been more than 160 so far.<\/p>\n

Middle East latest: Biden decides on drone attack response<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And the US has retaliated to those – the graphic below shows their attacks since 27 October.<\/p>\n

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\n US attacks since 27 October. Source: ACLED
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They already include strikes against bases operated by the Iranian<\/strong> Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – the regime’s most powerful military force – rather than proxy militias.<\/p>\n

Defence and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke said: “What the Americans were trying to do was be very graduated in their response – always to respond to individual attacks with another retaliation on the place where the attack came from.<\/p>\n

“It obviously has led the Iranians to feel that they can keep on pushing America. So, I think the fact American service personnel have been killed<\/strong> has crossed a line.<\/p>\n

“The Americans now have got to decide if they need to take a step up in terms of their response.”<\/p>\n

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\n Military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan where three US soldiers were killed in drone attack. Pic: Planet Labs PBC via AP
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Would a response that included sanctions or perhaps a cyberattack really be a step up?<\/p>\n

Many Iranian officials are already under sanctions and there is domestic pressure on Mr Biden to go further.<\/p>\n

Professor Clarke suggests that another option would be to target Iranian ships in the Red Sea and connecting waters: “The Americans might regard that as a sensible target since they’re all part of the Iran’s attempts to create a crisis for America.”<\/p>\n

IRGC fast boats operate regularly in the Strait of Hormuz and have seized oil tankers in the past.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Iran also announced that its warship Alborz, a frigate, had entered the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

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There’s also the Behshad.<\/p>\n

The ship officially carries cargo but military analysts say it carries out surveillance that has been vital for all the Houthi attacks – another Iranian-backed militia that forms part of the same so-called “axis of resistance”.<\/p>\n

Those would be Iranian assets, but still outside Iran. Further up the escalation ladder would be an attack on Iranian territory itself.<\/p>\n

That could be limited to the coast, perhaps. Or they could strike the interior – perhaps even on nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

That is the very top of the ladder – and the US would not start there, if only to give itself room to climb in the future.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said that his country “does not welcome the expansion of conflicts in the region”.<\/p>\n

And Mr Biden said on Tuesday that “we don’t need a wider war in the Middle East” but he had decided on an unspecified response.<\/p>\n

Others would argue that, with the death of US military personnel, the wider war is already here.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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