{"id":12815,"date":"2024-02-04T16:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12815"},"modified":"2024-02-04T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T16:29:33","slug":"why-did-us-wait-to-retaliate-for-drone-attack-on-its-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12815","title":{"rendered":"Why did US wait to retaliate for drone attack on its troops?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Defence and security officials said that weather had made it difficult to retaliate sooner, with Friday presenting the best conditions for launching strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the White House and Pentagon also repeatedly said they were avoiding &#8220;telegraphing&#8221; operations in the days leading up to the strikes, experts believe they did just that &#8211; with the ultimate intention of avoiding a wider war with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arabian Gulf States Institute of Washington fellow Hussein Ibish, said the delay appeared to be the US signalling &#8220;what they&#8217;re not going to do, which is strike inside Iran&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Mulroy told the BBC it is possible that the US allowed Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel &#8220;to leave the facilities that are going to be struck&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts noted the US must walk a fine line between deterring a country like Iran without igniting a greater conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/why-did-us-wait-retaliate-020425239.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/why-did-us-wait-retaliate-020425239.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Defence and security officials said that weather had made it difficult to retaliate sooner, with Friday presenting the best conditions for launching strikes.<br \/>\nThough the White House and Pentagon also repeatedly said they were avoiding &#8220;telegraphing&#8221; operations in the days leading up to the strikes, experts believe they did just that &#8211; with the ultimate intention of avoiding a wider war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Arabian Gulf States Institute of Washington fellow Hussein Ibish, said the delay appeared to be the US signalling &#8220;what they&#8217;re not going to do, which is strike inside Iran&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mulroy told the BBC it is possible that the US allowed Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel &#8220;to leave the facilities that are going to be struck&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Experts noted the US must walk a fine line between deterring a country like Iran without igniting a greater conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/why-did-us-wait-retaliate-020425239.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,553,272,355,314,391,619,158],"class_list":["post-12815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-drones","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-middle-east","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12816,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions\/12816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}