Iran behind drone attack on U.S. base in Syria, officials say

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57% : The base is also located on a road serving as a vital link for Iranian-backed forces from Tehran all the way to southern Lebanon and Israel.
45% : They were Iranian drones, and Iran appears to have facilitated their use, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss details that have not been made public.
44% : "You can consider that the strike on Tanf was an implementation" of previous promises by Syrian allies to retaliate for Palmyra, according to an official with the so-called Axis of Resistance, an anti-Western political-military alliance that includes Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and other groups fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces.
42% : WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials say they believe Iran was behind the drone attack last week at the military outpost in southern Syria where American troops are based.
42% : The last major Iranian attack on U.S. forces was in January 2020, when Tehran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles on al-Asad air base in Iraq.
41% : Officials said Monday the U.S. believes that Iran resourced and encouraged the attack, but that the drones were not launched from Iran.
41% : He called it a "complex, coordinated and deliberate attack" and said the U.S. has seen similar ones before from Shia militia groups that are backed by Iran.
41% : The al-Tanf attack came in a period of rising tensions with Iran.
34% : The Biden administration this week said international diplomatic efforts to get Iran back into negotiations to return to a 2015 nuclear deal were at a "critical place" and that patience Is wearing thin.

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