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U.S. President Joe Biden approved strikes against pro-Iranian militants in Syria and Iraq on Monday, January 29. That is, the “green light” was given the very next day after the attack on the U.S. base in Jordan, according to CNN. According to CNN, citing its own sources, Biden was presented with options for retaliation almost immediately after Washington received word of the attack on the U.S. Tower 22 base in Jordan on Sunday, January 28. It was at a Situation Room meeting with his top national security advisers the next morning that Biden gave the specific green light for the first series o…