The increased attention of the Right Formations in Syria to the American bases was the result of requests from Damascus, reports New York Times.
According to them, Syria officials and the leaders of the Shiite groups held consultations how to protect themselves against the backdrop of Israeli flights in Iran. They stated that they did not want their territory to turn into a bridgehead of response attacks on the Israelis. It was made a compromise decision not to strike at Israeli objects, but to make more actively attacks on the bases of the US Armed Forces in the southeast and northeast of Syria.
The response from the United States did not immediately follow, because the Biden administration calculated whether this could interfere with negotiations on a nuclear transaction, reports Politico with reference to its sources. The publication said that Iranian negotiators on feedback channels were made to understand that nuclear negotiations and protection of military bases from shelling were different objects for the discussion.
Syria authorities are afraid of the destruction of the country’s infrastructure as a result of a potential full -scale conflict.
Recall that last week the Israeli Air Force attacked weapons and other military objects of Iranian militants in Syria several times. In response to this, the pro -war formations attacked several military facilities of the United States. In response, the US military inflicted air strikes on objects related to Iran in Syria. So, last Thursday the United States struck several targets in the Syrian city of Mayadin in the province of Deir ez-Zor. They stated that several militants associated with Iran were killed as a result of the attack of an American helicopter.