Two Iranian men have been charged in connection with a deadly drone attack that killed three U.S. military personnel and injured dozens of others earlier this year.
Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi was arrested in Massachusetts and was scheduled to appear in court on Monday. The other suspect, Mohammad Abedininajafabadi, was arrested in Italy and is being held by Italian authorities, federal prosecutors said.
The charges are related to the first deadly airstrike on U.S. troops since January 28. israel-hamas war Starts in October 2023.
Three Army reservists – Sergeant William Jerome Rivers; Special Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Spc. Breonna Alexandria Moffett, all Georgia residents, targeted a small military base known as Tower 22 near the Syria-Iraq border in Jordan on January 28. killed and 47 others injured in the drone attack.
All three were assigned to the 926th Engineer Battalion, 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Brigade, Fort Moore, Georgia.
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Seen here from left to right are Sgt. Kennedy Sanders Sergeant William Jerome Rivers and Sergeant Breonna Alexandria Moffett. These three U.S. Army Reserve soldiers were killed on January 28, 2024, in a drone attack on a base in Jordan near the Syrian border. (Sean Sanders and U.S. Army, via AP, File)
The soldiers were sent to Jordan to support what the US military calls Operation Inherent Resolve in its fight against the Islamic State terrorist group.
Rivers, 46, served as a house electrician in the Army Reserve. Meanwhile, Sanders, 24, and Moffett, 23, were working as horizontal construction engineers.
In response to this deadly attack, the United States launched retaliatory strikes against more than 85 targets. Iraq and Syria against the Quds Force and associated militias of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Targets include command and control operations, intelligence centers, paramilitary rockets, missiles, and unmanned vehicle storage facilities. supply chain facilitiesThe U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said at the time.
A map showing the location of Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, near the Syria-Iraq border. (Fox News)
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The soldier's death marked an escalation in violence against US troops in the Middle East. At the time, the Biden administration blamed the attack on U.S. support for Israel amid the ongoing war with Hamas.
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