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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denied today, Thursday, what US President Donald Trump said that Tehran was behind a missile attack targeting the US embassy in Baghdad this week.
“Exposing your citizens to danger abroad will not distract attention from the catastrophic failures at home,” Zarif wrote on Twitter.
Trump said on Twitter on Wednesday that the missiles that fell in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Sunday in an attack on the US embassy came from Iran, and that “we are hearing conversations about other attacks on Americans in Iraq.”
Trump added, “Friendly advice to Iran: If one American kills, I will hold Iran responsible. You have to think about it.”
The Iraqi army said that an “outlaw group” was responsible for the attack, which caused minor material losses.
A senior US administration official told Reuters that senior national security officials yesterday agreed on several options to present to Trump with the aim of deterring any attack targeting US military or diplomats in Iraq. The official did not clarify what these options were, or whether they included military action.
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