Iran denied this Monday his involvement in the attack that killed three American soldiers in Syria along the border with Jordan and that it was claimed by pro-Iranian militias, the state agency IRNA has reported.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Naser Kananí, has stated that his country has not been involved “in the operations of resistance groups in the region”, as claimed by the United States and the United Kingdom.

“These statements are made with specific political objectives to reverse the realities of the region and are influenced by third partiesincluding the Zionist regime (Israel) that murders children,” Kananí said, according to IRNA.

The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN has also stressed that ““Iran has no connection or anything to do with the attack on a US base.”the diplomatic legation has assured, according to the Iranian state agency.

Biden points out Iran

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, assured this Monday that three American soldiers died in a drone attack in northeast Jordan, near the border with Syria, although The Jordanian Government indicated that the action took place outside its territory and targeted the Al Tanf base.

34 American soldiers were also wounded in the attack. “While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know that was carried out by Iranian-backed radical militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq“Biden said in a statement.

The Al Nujaba militia, one of the most prominent of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, has celebrated in a statement several attacks that the group launched against US positions in Syria and Iraq, including one directed against the Al Tanf base, in Syria. , “which caused the death and injury of more than 50 American soldiers.

This is the first time since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip that American soldiers have died as a result of attacks by pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, who have carried out more than a hundred actions against US positions in Iraq and Syria. since the beginning of the conflict.

Iran leads the so-called Axis of Resistance, an informal alliance formed by militant organizations such as Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels, the Islamist movement Hamas and Islamic Jihad, among other groups. Tehran denies that these actors act under its orders and assures that they make decisions on their own.