Helicopters ferried U.S. staff from the American embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday...
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON - Helicopters ferried U.S. staff from the American embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday out of apparent concern about perceived threats from Iran, which U.S. sources believe encouraged Sunday’s attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has called the tanker attacks “worrisome and dreadful” and called for an investigation. “We exercise maximum restraint in spite of the fact the United States withdrew,” Zarif said as he met his Japanese counterpart, Taro Kono, in Tokyo. Pompeo told Iraq’s top brass to keep the militias, which are expanding their power in Iraq and now form part of its security apparatus, in check, the sources said. If not, the United States would respond with force.
Iran described the U.S. moves as “psychological warfare”, and a British commander cast doubt on U.S. military concerns about threats to its roughly 5,000 soldiers in Iraq, who have been helping Iraqi security forces fight Islamic State. “This is a pin-prick event, a little needle-like jab at the maritime trade going into the Strait of Hormuz,” said Gerry Northwood, chairman of risk management and security firm MAST.
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