Biden administration facing pressure for ‘decisive’ action against Iran

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President Joe Biden is facing pressure to respond to this weekend’s attack on a U.S. military base in Jordan that left three U.S. troops dead and more than 40 injured.

Iranian-backed militias have carried out approximately 165 attacks against U.S. forces stationed in Iraq, Syria, and now Jordan since mid-October, but this was the first time U.S. troops were killed in one of them.

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