![]() "As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing," Austin said. personnel and were "proportionate and deliberate" and intended to limit the risk of escalation and minimize casualties. The statement said its retaliatory "precision" strikes were intended to protect and defend U.S. contractor was of Iranian origin but offered no evidence to support the claim. intelligence community had determined the drone that killed the U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in the Pentagon statement that the U.S. The new wave of air strikes came after rockets were fired at a Conoco gas plant that has a base housing U.S. ![]() Two Syrian opposition activist groups later on March 24 reported a new wave of air strikes in eastern Syria against positions of Iran-backed militias. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attack killed 11 pro-Iranian fighters - six at a weapons depot in Deir el-Zour city and five others at military posts near two towns. The Pentagon said two F-15 fighters launched the retaliatory attack early on March 24. The United States has maintained about 900 troops in posts across northeastern Syria to keep pressure on groups affiliated with the Islamic State group and to support the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in their fight against the Syrian government. The deadly attack by a kamikaze drone struck a maintenance facility on a base of the U.S.-led coalition near Hasakeh in northeastern Syria, the Pentagon said. contractor was killed and six other Americans were injured in an attack on March 23 blamed on groups affiliated with Iran in northeast Syria. That's exactly what happened last night," Biden said after he ordered a retaliatory air strike on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).īiden, who spoke to reporters during a visit to Ottawa, Canada, ordered the air strike after a U.S. The United States is prepared "to act forcefully to protect our people. President Joe Biden has said the United States does not seek conflict with Iran but will respond to protect its personnel in Syria and elsewhere. ![]() If Western powers seek a resolution criticizing Tehran, it could deal a further blow to stalled efforts to revive the nuclear deal. The lack of progress could set up a new diplomatic clash when the IAEA’s Board of Governors meets next week. "The safeguards issues related to these three locations remain outstanding." "Iran has not provided explanations that are technically credible in relation to the Agency's findings at those locations," according to the report, quoted by Reuters. In a separate report on May 30, the IAEA said Iran has done little to answer the nuclear agency's long-standing questions on the origin of uranium particles found at three undeclared sites. special envoy for Iran said last week that the prospects of reviving the deal are “tenuous” at best. Talks to revive the agreement resumed in Vienna last year but have stalled. President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord in 2018 and reimposed harsh economic sanctions. The latest report comes as talks to revive the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers remain deadlocked. Western powers say Iran is getting closer to being able to quickly produce a nuclear bomb if it chose to, though Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful. That amounts to more than what the IAEA calls a "significant quantity," defined as "the approximate amount of nuclear material for which the possibility of manufacturing a nuclear explosive device cannot be excluded."Įnrichment levels of around 90 percent are required for use in a nuclear weapon. The amount of uranium enriched to 60 percent stands at 43.1 kilograms, an increase of nearly 10 kilograms. The stockpile of uranium enriched up to 20 percent is now estimated to be 238.4 kilograms, up 56.3 kilograms since the last report in March. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on May 30 also says that Iran is continuing its enrichment of uranium to levels higher than the 3.67 percent limit in the deal. The UN’s nuclear watchdog estimates that Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium has grown to more than 18 times the limit laid down in the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
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