Iran rejects involvement in attacks on US military positions in Middle East

Iran is not involved in strikes on the positions of the US military units in the Middle East, Amir Saeid Iravani, the Islamic Republic's Permanent Representative to the UN, has sent a written statement to this effect to the UN Security Council.

"I would like to emphasize once again: Iran has not participated in any attacks on US Armed Forces units. The Islamic Republic considers the US accusations on this issue unfounded and believes that all these statements are an attempt by the occupying country to justify and decriminalize its own aggression and the serious violations of international law and the UN Charter it is committing in Syria and the entire Middle East region," Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying.

Earlier, The Washington Post newspaper, citing Pentagon data, reported that the U.S. military in the Middle East has been subjected to at least 76 militant attacks since October in light of the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The publication noted that rocket attacks and drone attacks on US troops in Iraq and Syria are carried out almost every day.

In addition, according to the U.S. Central Command, three commercial vessels in the Red Sea were attacked by Iranian-backed Yemeni rebel Hussein of the Ansar Allah movement. The missile destroyer USS Carney repelled the attacks, shooting down at least three drones.