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As the US considers its next steps, Agence France-Presse says that the killing of three US troops is “dragging the US further into a proxy war with Iran that President Joe Biden had hoped to avoid and that he still hopes can be contained.”
Here’s some more of their analysis:
After years of trying to ease tensions with Iran through dialogue, and then months seeking to keep the Israel-Hamas war from escalating, the drone strike by Iranian-backed militants on US forces in Jordan crossed an unstated red line for the Biden administration.
The US has already been hitting another Iranian-backed group, Yemen’s Huthi rebels. The strikes come after warnings failed to dissuade Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, which the insurgents say are acts of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza being bombarded by US ally Israel.
