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US President Donald Trump has said he would hold "Iran responsible" in the event of a fatal attack on Americans in Iraq. The outgoing president made this statement ahead of the first anniversary of the killing of a top Iranian general in a US air strike approaches.
"Our embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets," Trump said Wednesday on Twitter, referring to an attack that caused damage but no deaths.
"Guess where they came from: IRAN," he added.
"Now we hear chatter of additional attacks against Americans in Iraq," he added, before offering "some friendly health advice to Iran: if one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible. Think it over," he said.
In response, the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javid Zarif tweeted on Thursday: "Putting your own citizens at risk abroad won't divert attention from catastrophic failures at home."
He also attached an image of years-old Trump tweets that claimed ex-president Barack Obama would have started a war with Iran to win re-election, as well as ascreengrab of a graph that purported to show the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in the US.
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The US military command that covers the region has also said that the rocket attack "was almostcertainly conducted by an Iranian-backed rogue militia group."
It said in a statement that while it "causedno US injuries or casualties, the attack did damagebuildings in the US embassy compound, and was clearly NOTintended to avoid casualties."
"The United States will hold Iran accountable for the deaths ofany Americans that result from the work of these Iranian-backed roguemilitia groups," it added.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had already pointed the finger at Tehran.
Washington has recently reduced its diplomatic staff in the Iraqi capital amid speculations that it could close the mission altogether.
Trump ordered the drone attack on January 3, 2020 to kill the powerful Iranian general while he was in Baghdad. The air strike came after Iranian-backed militias had fired rockets at US targets in Iraq, in a scenario echoed by the latest strikes against the US embassy.