{"id":37345,"date":"2024-01-31T03:46:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37345"},"modified":"2024-01-31T03:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:46:53","slug":"biden-says-he-has-decided-us-response-to-jordan-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37345","title":{"rendered":"Biden says he has decided US response to Jordan attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>President Joe Biden says he has decided how the US will respond to a drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan at the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Biden did not elaborate in his remarks at the White House, but added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we need a wider war in the Middle East.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Iran-backed militia group has claimed responsibility for the attack at a US military base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dozens more were injured in Sunday&#8217;s strike near the Syrian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overnight drone attack was the first time US soldiers were killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since the Israel Gaza war erupted on 7 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked by reporters on Tuesday morning if he had decided how to respond to the attack, Mr Biden said: &#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was also asked if Iran should be blamed. &#8220;I do hold them [Iran] responsible in the sense that they&#8217;re supplying the weapons to the people who did it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: President Joe Biden says he has decided how the US will respond to a drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan at the weekend. Mr Biden did not elaborate in his remarks at the White House, but added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we need a wider war in the Middle East.&#8221; An Iran-backed militia group has claimed responsibility for the attack at a US military base. Dozens more were injured in Sunday&#8217;s strike near the Syrian border. The overnight drone attack was the first time US soldiers were killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37347,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345\/revisions\/37347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}