Tehran has nothing to do with US base attack: Iran UN mission

Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations has issued a statement on a deadly drone attack on a US military base in Jordan, saying the Islamic Republic had no role in those attacks.

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29 January 2024

The representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the United Nations on Sunday night told IRNA that Iran had no connection and had nothing to do with the attack on the US base.

It further clarified that there is a conflict between US forces and Resistance groups in the region, which reciprocate retaliatory attacks.

The Iranian mission in the UN issued the statement as some of the critics of the administration of the US President and hawkish Republicans were in their efforts to link the attack on the Al-Tanf base to Iran.

This is while several unnamed American officials were quoted by the media as saying that it remained uncertain if Iran was involved in the attack on the US base on the Jordan-Syria border.

Later on Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the Iraqi Islamic Resistance claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on American forces in Jordan by issuing a statement.

In the statement, the Iraqi Islamic Resistance said, "We declare our responsibility for the attack that targeted American forces in Jordan."

An Iraqi Islamic Resistance official has also announced that if America continues to support Israel, such attacks will intensify.

Resistance groups based in Iraq have repeatedly hit US bases on Iraqi and Syrian territories with missiles and drones over the past weeks in retaliation for the Israeli regime’s crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.

The groups are also outraged at the US military presence in the region, which they see as a source of instability, as well as Washington’s support for the Israeli regime in its ongoing war on Gaza. / Mehr