Urgent America is considering moving its embassy in Baghdad to one of these two locations
Urgent America is considering moving its embassy in Baghdad to one of these two locations
12/24/2020 14:38:19
{International: Al-Furat News} The United States is considering closing its embassy in Baghdad quickly after a series of missile attacks on the Green Zone in Iraq, according to two sources familiar with the discussions of the American news site, Axios.
The site said that this step could be among several options under consideration, an introduction to respond to missile attacks.
He pointed out that, “In the event that the US embassy in Baghdad is closed, the US ambassador to Iraq (Matthew Toller) will be transferred to the city of Erbil in the Kurdistan region, or to the Al-Assad air base in Anbar province.
Earlier Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said , He will “hold Iran responsible” in the event of an attack targeting Americans in Iraq, with the approaching first anniversary of the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike near Baghdad airport.
Trump attached a picture of missiles with a tweet on Twitter, in which he said that the embassy is in Baghdad was attacked last Sunday by several missiles.
A US official revealed to Reuters, on Wednesday, that “senior national security officials met at the White House and agreed on a set of proposed options to deter any attack on American military personnel or diplomats in Iraq.”
The commander of the US Central Command in the Middle East, General Frank MacKenzie, said that the barrage of missiles that was fired at the US embassy in Baghdad on Sunday was the largest attack on the capital’s Green Zone since 2010, with 21 missiles.
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