(NewsNation) — U.S. President Joe Biden said Tuesday he has decided how to respond to a Sunday drone attack in Jordan that killed 3 U.S. service members, but did not give specific details on his plans.
Biden, speaking to reporters as he left the White House for a campaign trip to Florida, reiterated that he holds Iran responsible for the servicemembers’ deaths.
“I do hold them responsible in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it,” Biden told reporters, adding that he doesn’t think “we need a wider war in the Middle East.”
“That’s not what I’m looking for,” he said.
Biden has previously said the unmanned aerial drone attack, which injured over 40 and impacted a U.S. base near the Syrian border, was carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.” U.S. Central Command initially had this number as 25 on Sunday.
The deaths of Army Reserve soldiers Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia were the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes by groups against American troops in the Middle East.
Reuters contributed to this story.
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