Iravani said there was cooperation and collaboration, but that Iran was not directing any of those operations, the Islamic Republic’s United Nations ambassador told CNN in an interview.
“We have said very clearly that Iran is not involved in any attack against the United States forces in the region,” he said, adding that any attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq were undertaken by others at “their own decision and by their own direction.”
Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said on Thursday that the US forces have been attacked 46 times since October 17.
That includes 24 attacks in Iraq and 22 in Syria, she added.
A total of 56 troops have been injured in the attacks, the Pentagon says, claiming that all injuries were minor and every service member has since returned to duty.
The attacks come amid Washington’s all-out support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
The US House of Representatives on November 2 passed a standalone $14.3-billion military assistance package for Israel. The legislation, however, is yet to clear the Senate.
Washington, which has backed Tel Aviv’s ferocious attacks on Gaza as a means of “self-defense,” has also been casting its veto against the United Nations Security Council resolutions that called on the occupying regime to cease its aggression.
Earlier on Thursday night, the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a telephone conversation with his Qatari counterpart, “Due to the expansion of the intensity of the war against Gaza’s civilian residents, expansion of the scope of the war has become inevitable.”
The war started after the territory’s resistance movements waged a surprise attack against the occupying entity, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm, in response to its decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Thirty-four days have passed since the beginning of the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip. In these attacks, 10,569 people, including 4,237 children, 2,823 women and girls, and 631 elderly people were martyred. In addition, there have been reports of more than 3,000 missing and 26,000 injured Palestinian citizens.
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