Chief of Staff of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, highlighted the importance of a “stronger” US response targeting the “Jerusalem Force” of the Iranian “Revolutionary Guards”.
He stressed that the response would be to deter missile and drone attacks on American forces in Syria and Iraq.
“We know what we need to target there is the IRGC, specifically the Quds Force, and it has to get very aggressive over time, and that’s exactly what we planned,” Milley said at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. do it.”,
According to Al-Monitor, an unidentified military official explained that General Milley’s statements could be interpreted as lethal and non-lethal measures.
“Iran’s strategic goal is to get the United States out of both Iraq and Syria,” Milley said.
Milley, in separate statements to the House of Representatives, noted that US intelligence still believes that the IRGC aims to consolidate its influence on the Shiite proxy militias extending through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon.
