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Joe Biden is weighing up launching strikes on Iranian military assets in the Persian Gulf after three Americans were killed in Jordan by a Tehran-backed drone. The president has demanded advisors present him with options on how to respond to the attack without dragging the US into battle in the Middle East, Politico reports. Insiders revealed any revenge bombings will taken place in the coming days as the commander-in-chief and military brass study a range of targets.


Fears of war were sparked over the weekend when an Iran-backed drone killed three American soldiers at a remote base near Jordan's border with Syria. The victims were named on Monday as specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders (pictured left), 24, specialist Breonna Moffett (pictured right), 23, and sergeant William Rivers (pictured center), 46. Iran-backed militias, calling themselves the Axis of Resistance, have also launched more than 160 strikes on US targets since the October 7 terror attack by Hamas. It comes at a delicate time for the White House, with Biden not seen out and about on Monday after sparking health fears due to a bumbling speech in South Carolina.

Meanwhile Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has only recently returned to the office after going AWOL to have prostate cancer surgery. On Sunday, the Axis claimed responsibility for the attack on the outpost in Jordan, saying it was a 'continuation of our approach to resisting the American occupation forces in Iraq and the region.' Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday the militias 'do not take orders' from Iran and act independently. But Tehran is widely known to be the driving force for the attacks on the U.S. targets. Biden's own aides, according to The New York Times, admit the efforts to hit targets in the region in response to drone and missile attacks - to 'restore deterrence,' the administration says - have failed.

The president, who was not publicly seen on Monday, but was shown in White House photos meeting his advisers, has ordered his team to draw up a list of options for retaliation. Politico reported that they include attacking Iranian personnel in Syria or Iraq, or Iranian naval assets in the Persian Gulf. Iran has suggested any strikes within Iran itself would cross a red line. Former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash said escalation is 'unavoidable'. He said: Biden 'cannot avoid the international challenges even in an election year.' He added: 'There is a sense that our deterrence measures to date have not been received by Tehran as we hoped, so escalation is unavoidable

Once Biden has made his call, retaliation would likely begin a few days later and come in waves, against a range of targets. Campaign officials hope that the 81-year-old president, who spent six years as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has deep relationships with many key players in the Middle East, will impress wavering voters with his calm and competence. The Pentagon and State Department have spent decades drawing up scenarios and creating lists of possible targets. The New York Times reported that the U.S. has identified the major drone-making factories, and their overseas suppliers, which are working to help Russia in Ukraine, and providing armaments to the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The working assumption of American officials, the paper said, is that Sunday's attack was by an Iranian-made drone.

The Pentagon has existing plans for potential strikes on Iranian missile sites and air bases, in case a conflict broke out between Iran and Israel. Israel has been carrying out high-profile bombing runs, practicing attacks on the Natanz nuclear site and the underground facility at Fordow. The U.S. has even formulated a cyberattack option against Iran, code-named 'Nitro Zeus,' the New York Times reported. The cyberattack would disable Iran's air defenses, communications systems and crucial parts of its power grid. Republicans, led by Trump, are demanding Biden take decisive action. Trump backed away from attacking Iran in November 2020, shortly after the election. He asked for options on attacking Iran's main nuclear site, a day after a U.N. watchdog report showed Iran had finished moving a first cascade of advanced centrifuges from an above-ground plant at its main uranium enrichment site to an underground one, in a fresh breach of its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.

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Nlfpmod mynd44

I hope this will not lead to direct confrontation between US and Iran

Iran is going... In a few

They may just be the first country to be wiped off from the face of the earth

Very dull president, if it were to be trump hmmm

Nlfpmod

fuckingAyaya:
Very dull president, if it were to be trump hmmm

If nah Trump, Iran would have been ringing by now...!!
The baba no give a furrck..!!

Floky215:
If nah Trump, Iran would have been ringing by now...!!
The baba no give a furrck..!!

you people talk like primary school children

Floky215:
If nah Trump, Iran would have been ringing by now...!!
The baba no give a furrck..!!

No American president now or former will strike Iran directly given it position in the scheme of things..

Iran is a M.E power and has the ability to strike back at US assets in the middle East.. And of course, Russia, China, North Korea and others will arm Iran to the teeth in a war with US and it allies... Vietnam will be child play, US understand this and that's why they're being careful... Iran has network across the middle East...

LifeofDream:
No American president now or former will strike Iran directly given it position in the scheme of things..

Iran is a M.E power and has the ability to strike back at US assets in the middle East.. And of course, Russia, China, North Korea and others will arm Iran to the teeth in a war with US and it allies... Vietnam will be child play, US understand this and that's why they're being careful... Iran has network across the middle East...

Naso Una push Hamas enter war o. Iran is a very small fish to fry if US decides to deal with them. Russia that is depending on Irans drone to fight Ukraine and is still struggling is who u think will help Iran? China will only codedely sell weapons to Iran they won't dare interfere. The Chinese value Thier economy than any direct war confrontation. North Korea doesn't matter in the scheme of things they are still battling hunger

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Sirmwill:
Iran is going... In a few

US will not do shit. They can't try Iran. They couldn't try Iran when Iran was weak 20, 30years ago. Na today? They cannot even try north Korea when they didn't have Nuclear weapons.

Fibonacci88:
Naso Una push Hamas enter war o. Iran is a very small fish to fry if US decides to deal with them. Russia that is depending on Irans drone to fight Ukraine and is still struggling is who u think will help Iran? China will only codedely sell weapons to Iran they won't dare interfere. The Chinese value Thier economy than any direct war confrontation. North Korea doesn't matter in the scheme of things they are still battling hunger

I shouldn't have reply you for even comparing Hamas with no standing army, air force or any thing apart from cheap rockets to a giant like Iran. Israel is even struggling against a ragtag Hamas with nothing, isn't that shameful??...

Striking Iran would be America greatest mistake now, Iran will sink US and it allies in M.E.. Saudi and the rest know this, main reason they'll never agree..

Iran already warn Biden, strike Iran and see hell...