'Everything we've done — the additional forces, the messaging — is intended to prevent escalation,' one U.S. official said.
“Everything we’ve done — the additional forces, the messaging — is intended to prevent escalation,” one U.S. official said.
But three senior U.S. officials, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations, said that while the main goal was to ward off further Iranian-supported attacks on Americans, another was to make sure the broader Middle East conflict didn’t grow. The U.S. this month has rushed several ships, fighter planes and air defenses to the region to protect American forces and make adversaries think twice before attacking again.
“Hopefully, they will deter further attacks, but if they don’t, we’ll do what we need to do,” the first U.S. official said. Mick Mulroy, a former CIA officer and top Pentagon official for the Middle East, said the chances of the U.S. getting dragged deeper into the regional conflict after the strikes were “perhaps lower” due to their precise and limited nature.However, the airstrikes didn’t stop Iran-backed proxies from launching yet another attack on Friday. U.S. forces shot down a one-way attack drone near Al Asad air base in Iraq, according to a DOD official.
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