{"id":116822,"date":"2024-03-01T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=116822"},"modified":"2024-03-01T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:51:02","slug":"iran-backed-attacks-slow-since-3-us-service-members-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2024\/03\/01\/iran-backed-attacks-slow-since-3-us-service-members-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Backed Attacks Slow Since 3 US Service Members Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 CAPITOL HILL \u2014 <\/span>Attacks by Iranian-backed proxies have slowed since the drone attack in January that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan near the Syrian border.<\/p>\n

There have been only two minor attacks in Syria since Feb. 2, when the United States launched retaliatory attacks on targets in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

But U.S. lawmakers warned Wednesday that the lull does not de-escalate the risks of a regional conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran doesn’t have complete command and control of their operations,\u201d Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin said Wednesday. \u201cThat makes this a very precarious situation, one that requires careful clear-eyed American leadership. The risks of miscalculation would not only lead to another deadly attack against U.S. service members, it could lead to a full-scale regional war.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. military said U.S. and coalition forces shot down five Houthi drones late Tuesday in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command said the drones were launched from areas of Yemen controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and that the drones \u201cpresented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and to the U.S. Navy and coalition ships in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strikes were the latest in months of actions seeking to counter attacks by the Houthis against vessels in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

The Houthis have said they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians amid the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran thrives on chaos and suffering. The best way to undermine threat in the long term is to offer an alternative \u2014 a comprehensive and lasting peace that allows for real regional integration. I realize this is no easy task, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make our efforts,\u201d Cardin said.<\/p>\n

The White House called the January attack \u201cdespicable and wholly unjust,\u201d and killed the leader of the Kataib Hezbollah group in a targeted airstrike on Feb. 8 in retaliation.<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans characterized the Biden administration\u2019s overall approach to dealing with Iran as weak.<\/p>\n

Senator Jim Risch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on the administration to do a better job of denying Iran the resources it uses to commit acts of terrorism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Biden administration has still not articulated a coherent Iran policy outside of the nuclear negotiations. It’s time to change course,\u201d Risch said Wednesday. \u201cWe must adopt a policy of containment. Iran does not think like the West, and it cannot be taught or turned into a change in conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian Hook, the former U.S. special representative for Iran during the Trump administration, told senators, \u201cI believe that Iran knows that it can safely expand its Axis of Resistance because of the Biden administration’s deep aversion to defensive military action. The Biden administration de-escalates to de-escalate. The Iranian regime thrives under this strategy. American troops do not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering Risch\u2019s legislation to better enforce U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran is always going to make sure that Hezbollah gets what it needs,\u201d Democratic Senator Chris Murphy told VOA. \u201cTheir support for proxies is a very low-cost means of provoking the United States. I mean, we would be foolish to think that an oil sanction here, there, is going to change Iran’s decision to fund a group like Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 CAPITOL HILL \u2014 Attacks by Iranian-backed proxies have slowed since the drone attack in January that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan near the Syrian border. There have been only two minor attacks in Syria since Feb. 2, when the United States launched retaliatory attacks on targets in Syria and Iraq. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116825,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116822\/revisions\/116825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}