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The United States has carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria against two facilities used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps “and affiliated groups,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said late Thursday. The “precision self-defense strikes” were in retaliation for more than a dozen drone and missile strikes against U. S. forces through Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria over the past 10 days. Those attacks have shown little sign of abating, according to U. S. officials, and President Joe Biden “ordered today’s action to make it transparent that the United States will not tolerate such attacks and will protect themselves, their personnel, and their interests,” Austin said. The operations, carried out through Air Force F-16s, come a day after a press convention in which Biden warned Ali Khamenei, Iran’s ideal. leader, who “should be prepared” for a U. S. reaction if the attacks continue. “It has nothing to do with Israel,” Biden added.
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