Iranian proxies launch ‘unprecedented array of attacks’ on US targets, more US troops injured than Pentagon stated

According to National Review, at least 45 American troops “claim to have been injured in recent attacks in Iraq and Syria, more than twice as many as the Pentagon previously disclosed.” This is not the time for America to downplay the severity of this jihad against Israel, and more broadly, against America and the West. Biden can no longer afford to dawdle and play both sides, despite his slumping support among Muslims at home. Iran and its proxies are watching America’s resolve and reaction closely in gauging their own response, and Hizballah is constantly threatening to escalate attacks  and becoming increasingly brazen.

“Iran-backed groups threaten to expand Gaza war as they step up attacks on Israel and U.S.,” by Matt Bradley and Natasha Lebedeva, NBC, November 7, 2023:

BEIRUT — Rockets launched from Lebanon reached deeper into Israeli territory Monday than any since the 2006 war, as the Hezbollah militant group’s second-in-command threatened to escalate cross-border attacks if Israel continues its deadly assault on the Gaza Strip.

The threats by Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, came as Iranian-backed militant groups across the Middle East launched an unprecedented array of attacks against American targets.

“Hezbollah participates for the sake of lowering the pressure on Gaza,” said Qassem. He framed Israel as the aggressor, saying that these growing attacks were “a clear message that if you expand there will be serious consequences.”

Taken together, Hezbollah’s heightened rhetoric and the widening strikes by a group of Iran-backed proxies suggest that this “Axis of Resistance” is acting in harmony to ramp up pressure on the U.S. and Israel to check the latter’s escalating assault on the Gaza Strip….