The United States military has conducted operations against Iran backed militias in Iraq and Syria. These retaliatory strikes are in response to the killing of three American soldiers in Jordan last weekend.

On Friday‚ President Joe Biden attended the honorable transfer of the three American soldiers who were killed in Jordan this week in a drone strike that the United States has linked to militant groups with Iranian support.

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Utah lawmakers advanced a bill this week to prevent the granting of inherent rights to nature‚ a movement gaining momentum among environmental activists. House Bill 249‚ the “Utah Legal Personhood Amendments‚” declares that only mankind may enjoy the legal rights and obligations of personhood. The Utah House passed the bill on Tuesday; it now faces consideration by the Senate. The bill expressly prohibits the granting of legal personhood to any artificial intelligence‚ inanimate object‚ body of water‚ land‚ real property‚ atmospheric gas‚ astronomical object‚ weather‚ plant‚ nonhuman animal‚ and “any other member of a taxonomic domain that is not a human being.” Republican State Rep. Walt Brooks brought forth the bill amid efforts by environmental activists to leverage current U.S. law to grant legal personhood to the Great Salt Lake. Brooks explained during the House floor vote on Tuesday that a constituent brought the movement to his attention‚ a request he believed was in jest until he did his own research. Brooks said the bill was “common sense.” “I had to explain to my kids that‚ you go to a dairy‚ those cows are pregnant because they need to be if they’re going to give milk. But‚ did anybody get the permission of a cow to get them pregnant?” said Brooks. “So‚ if they were a person‚ that would be sexual harassment.” Democratic State Rep. Joel Briscoe indicated that nonhuman entities and beings should enjoy the legal rights of personhood‚ since corporations may have legal rights under U.S. law. Briscoe said he wasn’t sure whether granting personhood to the Great Salt Lake would be a good idea or not. “What I do know is this: before I put into code‚ and vote to put into code‚ a prohibition against something that I’m told is dangerous without any examples‚ I would really love to see some detail[‚]” said Briscoe. In closing‚ Brooks impressed on the importance of definitions that reflect reality. He compared the hesitation to decline personhood for nature to the ongoing confusion over defining gender. “What I do know is this: a person is a person‚ and a tree is not‚ neither is an animal‚ neither is a stream‚ neither is the air‚” said Brooks. “I bet you if you went back ten years ago‚ no one had a question about what a woman was and what a man was‚ but we do get confused.” Last month‚ Brooks told KUER that assigning personhood to something nonhuman wasn’t an appropriate preservation effort. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “We value animals. We value our rivers and streams‚ wetlands‚ whatever it may be‚ our lakes‚ and there’s ways that we can preserve them and go forward‚” said Brooks. “But trying to mix the idea that it’s actually a human person is not appropriate.” Environmental activists have already undertaken similar measures in other states. Last October‚ Milwaukee County in Wisconsin passed a resolution granting nature equal rights to mankind with the aim of securing greater protections for the county’s bodies of water. The movement to grant inherent rights to nature links back to the 2012 establishment of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). IPBES considers granting inherent rights to nature a significant public policy instrument. The bill passed out of the Utah House with overwhelming support on Tuesday‚ with 58 members voting for it and 11 against. Only one Democrat voted for‚ not against the bill: State Rep. Ashlee Matthews.

President Joe Biden and his administration tried to sound tough on Friday after the U.S. Military carried out a series of strikes inside Syria and Iraq in retaliation for Iranian-backed terrorists murdering three U.S. soldiers and wounding dozens more in a suicide drone attack last weekend. The strikes came after the Biden administration repeatedly telegraphed to Iran‚ through leaks to the media‚ what its plans were for the strikes so that Iran could have their top personnel from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — a designated terrorist group — safely evacuate ahead of the U.S. response. “This afternoon‚ at my direction‚ U.S. military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia use to attack U.S. forces‚” Biden said. “Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing. The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American‚ we will respond.” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that Biden ordered him to “hold the IRGC and affiliated militias accountable for their attacks on U.S. and Coalition Forces.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “We do not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else‚ but the president and I will not tolerate attacks on American forces‚” he said. “We will take all necessary actions to defend the United States‚ our forces‚ and our interests.” Voice of America News reported that a U.S. official said that the goal of the strike was to cause “a major disruption in logistics” for the IRGC and the terrorist groups that it backs. The targets selected were “critical to their supply chain” the official said‚ adding that the strikes were not intended to target “personnel.” “We hit what we intended to hit‚” the official said. Related: U.S. Officially Begins Retaliatory Strikes Against Iran’s IRGC‚ Terrorist Proxies

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