{"id":16877,"date":"2024-04-03T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/fears-grow-that-syria-strike-could-spur-retaliatory-attacks-on-israel-and-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:18:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:18:01","slug":"fears-grow-that-syria-strike-could-spur-retaliatory-attacks-on-israel-and-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/fears-grow-that-syria-strike-could-spur-retaliatory-attacks-on-israel-and-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears Grow That Syria Strike Could Spur Retaliatory Attacks on Israel and U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ms. Stroul said assessing the post-Suleimani era is instructive because the command and control of the Quds Force was degraded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen Iran-backed militia groups take decisions into their own hands under the leadership of Qaani, as well the rise of rival power centers in Iran,\u201d Ms. Stroul said, referring to Gen. Ismail Qaani, the current Quds Force commander. \u201cThis has led to a more diffuse, but not less lethal, Quds Force-led network abroad. But Iran\u2019s core strategy never changed. Tehran will continue to invest in its terrorist network abroad in order to keep the fight away from its own borders.\u201d<\/p>\n

More broadly, Ms. Stroul said, the message is that Islamic Revolutionary Guards \u201coperatives and leaders are not safe anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cIt should have strategic effect on how the Quds Force operates abroad and should erode any semblance of invincibility or deniability that this terrorist organization only brings instability and violence to the places it seeks to operate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., a retired four-star general and former leader of the Pentagon\u2019s Central Command, which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, said the deaths of the senior Quds Force officers was \u201ca blow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir long-term, carefully developed relationships will be lost,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ms. Stroul said the strike would further inflame Tehran. \u201cThe question is, will Iran respond in a manner that de-escalates the situation, or will it climb further up the escalation ladder?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokeswoman, sought on Tuesday to tamp down fears of escalation, saying that the United States had no involvement in the airstrike and did not know about it ahead of time.<\/p>\n

Ms. Singh said at a news conference that the message had also been conveyed directly to Iran. \u201cTensions being high in the region, we wanted to make it very clear in private channels that the U.S. had no involvement in the strike in Damascus.\u201d<\/p>\n

General McKenzie said he expected Iran would retaliate in some way, but he downplayed fears of a major escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s options to hit Israel are very, very limited,\u201d General McKenzie said. \u201cAnd the Israelis aren\u2019t going to back down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Stroul said assessing the post-Suleimani era is instructive because the command and control of the Quds Force was degraded. \u201cWe have seen Iran-backed militia groups take decisions into their own hands under the leadership of Qaani, as well the rise of rival power centers in Iran,\u201d Ms. Stroul said, referring to Gen. Ismail Qaani, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/02\/multimedia\/02mideast-crisis-intel-iran-syria-hgvl\/02mideast-crisis-intel-iran-syria-hgvl-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1179,2622,7743,38,22397,22396,2335,19366,221],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16879,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions\/16879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}