30 MINUTES OF HELL

AMERICA - The US has warned that their 30 minute attack inside Iraq and Syria is just the beginning, after President Biden walked a fine line between all out war in the region with strikes on 85 targets in seven locations.

The Pentagon unleashed a volley of missiles on Iranian-backed militias on Friday night, with four facilities in Syria and three in Iraq being struck by B1 bombers. Syria has warned that the strikes had ‘fuelled the conflict in the Middle East in a very dangerous way’.

While the Iraqi government confirmed that the attacks killed 16 people, including civilians and alleged the US Government did not inform them of their plan to strike.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 18 people were killed in the strikes on Syria.

US Secretary of Defence /loyd Austin has suggest that this targeted retaliation was just the beginning.

STRIKES

President Biden echoed this sentiment, saying that the overnight strikes were only the beginning.

A destroyed building is pictured at the site of a U.S. airstrike in al-Qaim, Iraq February 3, 2024

The strikes on Friday came in response to a deadly drone attack that killed three American soldiers last Sunday.

Senator Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat and Iraq War Veteran, told CNN “I think it is a real strong deterrence. We’re saying /isten, we don’t want to go to war. But have a little taste of what we can do.

“Here you go. Eighty-five targets. And I think that is part of the balancing act that we need to be engaged in right now.’

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanani said the overnight operation was ‘another strategic mistake by the US Government, which will have no result other than intensifying tension and instability.’

With tensions high in the face of the Israel-Hamas war, both Damascus and Baghdad joined Tehran in accusing Washington of undermining the stability of the region.