On Monday, January 29, Tehran denied any involvement in the drone attack that killed three American soldiers on the Syria-Jordan border the previous day. The attack had been claimed by Iranian-affiliated groups.
Iran denied US and British accusations that it supported militant groups behind a drone strike in Jordan that killed three US military personnel, Tehran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
“These claims are made with specific political goals to reverse the realities of the region,” IRNA quoted ministry of foreign affairs spokesman Nasser Kanaani.
On its Telegram and X accounts, the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq,” a nebulous group of fighters from pro-Iranian armed groups, claimed responsibility for “attacks carried out at dawn on Sunday with drones” against three bases in Syrian territory, including nearby Al-Tanf and Rukban.
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US President Joe Biden said on Sunday that “radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq” were behind the strike on the frontier base in Jordan’s northeast.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron reiterated a call for Iran “to de-escalate in the region.”
Kanaani said such statements threatened “regional and international peace and stability.”
US Central Command said 34 personnel were also wounded, eight of whom required evacuation.
US troops operate at the base near Jordan’s border with Iraq and Syria as part of an international coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group.
The strike marked the first US military loss since the war between Israel and Hamas began.
With AFP
