White House says the U.S. is not seeking conflict with Iran

The White Home mentioned Friday that the U.S. is just not in search of a battle with Iran after President Joe Biden launched a retaliatory air strike over an American contractor killed in Syria by a drone strike. Activists mentioned the U.S. bombing killed at the very least 4 folks.

A suspected Iran-made suicide drone killed a contractor and injured 5 U.S. servicemembers on Thursday at a upkeep facility on a coalition base close to al-Hasakah in northeast Syria.  

Biden responded by deploying ‘precision airstrikes’ in opposition to amenities utilized by teams affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, killing 11 pro-Iranian fighters. The Iranian-backed fighters responded by taking pictures off three rockets Friday morning.  

Nationwide Safety Council spokesman John Kirby mentioned Friday morning, ‘We do not search a conflict with Iran. We’re not searching for an armed battle with that nation or one other conflict within the area’ 

In line with an American protection official, the U.S. counterstrikes had been carried out by F-15 fighter jets flying out of al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The official spoke on situation of anonymity to debate army operations.

The U.S. F-15s struck three places, all within the neighborhood of Deir el-Zour, mentioned a U.S. official.

Nationwide Safety Council spokesman John Kirby appeared on the U.S. morning exhibits Friday and was requested on CNN if the U.S. might think about the latest assaults an ‘act of conflict.’  

‘We do not search a conflict with Iran. We’re not searching for an armed battle with that nation or one other conflict within the area,’ Kirby mentioned.

‘We do search to guard our mission in Syria, which is about defeating ISIS, and we do search to guard our folks in our amenities in opposition to these Iran-backed teams,’ Kirby added. 

He could not give particulars concerning the identification of the U.S. contractor apart from confirming that he was an American citizen. 

‘We’re attempting to provide the household a while and area right here to grieve,’ Kirby defined. 

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Kirby mentioned it was clear the Iran-backed group resented the U.S. presence within the area. 

‘They do not wish to see the US’ presence in Iraq, they do not wish to see it in Syria they usually’re retaliating, they’re appearing out to restrict our capacity to go after ISIS in each these international locations and to try to drive our hand to depart,’ Kirby mentioned. 

He additionally mentioned that the three rocket strikes launched on the US base on the Al-Omar oil subject did not do any injury. 

‘It isn’t unusual after we take a retaliatory strike like this for them to reply proper again with some ineffective rocket fireplace and these had been largely, fully ineffective,’ Kirby mentioned. ‘No person was harm, no U.S. casualties in any respect.’

‘It was type of an instinctual response that get from these militant teams every time we do this sort of factor,’ he continued. ‘However that mentioned, we clearly are going to remain vigilant for every other responses from Iran or from their militant teams in Syria, in Iraq.’   

U.S. Military Gen. Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, the top of the American army’s Central Command, warned that its forces might perform extra strikes if wanted. ‘We’ll all the time take all crucial measures to defend our folks and can all the time reply at a time and place of our selecting.’

President Joe Biden (pictured) ordered the retaliation strike on a munition warehouse, a management constructing and an intelligence-collection website

Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin III mentioned he approved the retaliatory strikes on the path of President Joe Biden

US forces present army coaching the Al-Hasakah province in Syria in September 2022