US needs to respond ‘more robustly and decisively’ to ‘serious escalation’ by Iran

ASPI Senior Analyst Dr Malcolm Davis says the US needs to respond “more robustly and decisively” to the drone strike in Jordan, which is a “more serious escalation” by Iran than previous incidents. The Pentagon has promised to use all necessary actions to defend American troops after a drone strike killed three US soldiers in Jordan. “They need to respond much more robustly and decisively than what they’ve done in the past,” Dr Davis told Sky News Australia. “This strike by the Iranian-sponsored militias have now killed three US service people and wounded over 30 US service people – that is a much more serious escalation by Iran than previous incidents, so the US does need to respond decisively. “They’ve got various different options they can look at, and I think probably high on the list of targets would be the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is responsible for these militias that are doing these strikes. “They could hit their bases, and I think these are the sorts of options the US will be weighing up on how best to do it.”