Iran rejects charges that it was engaged in an incident that killed three US military personnel in northeastern Jordan near Syria's border, foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday, news agency Reuters reported. Kanaani also stated that the continuance of US bombings on Syria and Iraq, as well as the conflict in Gaza, will further exacerbate the region's instability.
President Joe Biden accused Iran-backed organisations for the unmanned aerial drone attack on US soldiers, which was the first fatal strike against US forces since the Israel-Hamas war began in October and sent shockwaves across the Middle East.
Kanaani stated that "resistance groups" do not follow commands from the Islamic Republic.
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“As we have clearly stated before, the resistance groups in the region are responding [to] the war crimes and genocide of the child-killing Zionist regime and… they do not take orders from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Nasser Kanaani was quoted saying by IRNA on Monday, Aljazeera reported. “These groups decide and act based on their own principles and priorities as well as the interests of their country and people.”
According to Kanaani, assertions of Iranian involvement were motivated by "specific political goals to reverse the realities of the region" and were "influenced by third parties, including the child-killing Zionist regime".
Earlier, Iran's Mission to the United States stated that "Iran had no connection and had nothing to do with the attack on the U.S. base."
According to the report, "There is a conflict between U.S. forces and resistance groups in the region, which reciprocate retaliatory attacks."
The incident represents a significant escalation of the Middle East's already tense situation, in which war broke out in Gaza following an attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist organisation Hamas on October 7.