“Our forces launched their attack in response to past attacks and threats of future attacks,” Biden said.
He added, “The American strikes targeted facilities used by the Revolutionary Guards for command and storage of ammunition,” stressing that “our attacks made sure that there were no civilian casualties.”
He continued, “Our strikes came to enhance national security and preserve the interests of the United States.”
He concluded by saying, “Additional information will be made available in a classified appendix to Congress.”
After the US strikes in Syria, Iran is waving a “quick response”
A spokesman for Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said on Saturday that attacks on bases linked to Iran in Syria would call for a swift response, after reports that 19 people were killed in one of the deadliest confrontations between US and Tehran-allied forces in years.
The semi-official “Noor News” agency quoted the spokesman, Kayvan Khosravi, as saying that any “pretext” to attack the bases that were established at the “request of the Syrian government to confront terrorism” and ISIS elements in the country “will be met with an immediate counter-response.”
On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the death toll from US air strikes on facilities of groups allied with Iran in eastern Syria had risen to 19.
The United States carried out the strikes in eastern Syria in response to a drone attack on Thursday that killed an American contractor and wounded another and five soldiers. Washington said the attack was of Iranian origin.
The Observatory indicated that the retaliatory strikes, launched by the United States on what it described as facilities in Syria used by groups allied with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, resulted in the killing of 19 people in total.
According to the Observatory, the air strikes killed three Syrian forces, 11 Syrian fighters from armed groups allied with the government, and five non-Syrian fighters loyal to the government, according to Reuters.
The initial clashes led to a series of retaliatory blows, and officials said another American on duty was injured.
Local sources said that shells suspected of being from a US missile hit more sites in eastern Syria.
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