Iranian authorities today denied involvement in a drone strike that killed three US soldiers in Jordan and insisted they were not seeking an "expansion" of the conflict in the Middle East.
"Iran does not want the conflict to spread in the Middle East," said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Kanani, while US President Joseph Biden promised that the attack would not go unanswered.
Kanani said that Tehran "is not involved in the decisions that the resistance groups made about the way they support the Palestinian nation" in the context of the war between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas, which began on October 7.
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According to him, such groups "do not receive orders from Iran" and decide their actions based on their own principles.
Yesterday, Biden said he knew the attack "was carried out by groups of radical fighters supported by Iran, which operate in Syria and Iraq", while the head of British diplomacy, David Cameron, called on Iran to calm tensions in the region.
Such statements "show" that some countries are "under the influence of third parties, among them the Zionist regime that kills children," Kanani said, referring to Israel.
Kanani assessed that the repetition of accusations without evidence is a conspiracy of those who see an interest in dragging the Americans into "a new battle in the region and expanding the crisis to hide their problems."
Since mid-October, more than 150 drone or missile strikes have been carried out against US and coalition troops in Iraq and Syria.
The "Islamic Resistance in Iraq", a group of fighters from pro-Iranian armed groups, claimed responsibility for "drone attacks carried out at dawn on Sunday" on three bases in Syrian territory, including Al Tanf and Rukban bases, very close to the tri-border of Iraq, Syria and Jordan.
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