• The Pentagon said that the precision airstrikes were launched to “limit the risk of escalation and minimize casualties.”
• “This evening, we responded to an attack on our forces that killed an American contractor and wounded our troops and another American contractor by striking facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,” U.S. Central Command later added.
• “We will always take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing.”

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