Moscow:

Russia accused President Joe Biden on Monday of finishing up strikes in Iraq and Syria to spice up his picture because the presidential election marketing campaign “is heating up” – not in retaliation for a lethal assault on U.S. troopers.

The US started the airstrikes on Friday towards dozens of targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and allied teams after three U.S. troopers have been killed in Jordan in an assault that Washington blames on Iranian-backed militias.

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, at a gathering of the Safety Council on the strikes which was requested by Moscow, stated there was no justification for the U.S. motion.

“We see in these ‘flex their muscular tissues’ makes an attempt, to start with, a want to affect home political panorama in America, a want to someway appropriate the disastrous picture of the present American administration on the worldwide enviornment because the presidential election marketing campaign is heating up,” he stated.

U.S. voters will go to the polls in November to elect a president for the subsequent 4 years. The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Nebenzia’s remarks about Biden.

Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wooden justified the U.S. strikes in Syria and Iraq beneath article 51 of the founding U.N. Constitution, which covers the person or collective proper of states to self-defense towards armed assault.

“Let me be clear: The US doesn’t want extra battle in a area after we are actively working to include and de-escalate the battle in Gaza. And we’re not in search of a direct battle with Iran. However we’ll proceed to defend our personnel towards unacceptable assaults. Interval,” Wooden stated.

He added that the strikes in Syria and Iraq have been a “separate and distinct” operation from U.S. and British strikes towards the Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen in response to the Houthi concentrating on of delivery within the Purple Sea.

The Pentagon on Monday stated it was not conscious of any Iranian deaths within the latest strikes.

Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani condemned the U.S. motion as “illegitimate, unlawful, and unjustified.”

“All the resistance teams within the area are impartial,” he informed the 15-member U.N. Safety Council on Monday.

“Any try and attribute these actions to Iran or its Armed forces is deceptive, baseless, and unacceptable. Iran by no means seeks to contribute to the spillover within the area.

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