Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi told a crowd in a speech Friday that it wouldn’t initiate a war, “but if a country or a cruel force wants to bully the Islamic Republic of Iran, it will respond firmly.”
Should attacks by militias continue, the U.S. could more aggressively strike Quds Force personnel in Syria, Iraq and Yemen without warning or hit Iranian ships at sea.
The U.S. is likely to stop short of hitting Iran directly, however, as that could draw Tehran more aggressively into a war that neither side has said it wants, though Republican lawmakers have said a strike on Iranian soil should remain an option.
While Friday’s strikes diminished the capabilities of pro-Iranian militias, Andrew Tabler, a former Syria director at the White House’s National Security Council, said that he expected militia attacks to continue. The Iranians and their militias “were moving their forces out of harm’s way” before the strikes, he said.
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Means we will have to get involved, can’t be arsed
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