Iran launches 'SECOND WAVE' of retaliation strikes
against US assets in Iraq
8 Jan, 2020 00:33 / Updated 2 hours ago
FILE PHOTO: A display featuring missiles and a
portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan
Square in Tehran, Iran. © Reuters / Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi
Iran has launched another volley of missile strikes on
a number of American facilities in Iraq, according to the semi-official Tasnim
news agency. The new round of missiles follows the first by just over an hour.
“A few minutes ago [3:30 am local time] the second
wave of Iranian missile attacks on the US base is launched,” the
news outlet reported.
The Pentagon confirmed earlier on Tuesday that “more
than a dozen” Iranian ballistic missiles had been fired on US bases,
including the Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, vowing to “take
necessary measures” to protect American personnel in the
region. Several additional missiles were reportedly fired on another US
facility near the city of Erbil, a Pentagon spokesman told Reuters.
The Iranian strikes come in response to the
assassination of top general and Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani,
who was killed in a US strike in Baghdad late last week. Tehran has deemed the
killing an act of “international terrorism” and promised to
take revenge.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Iranian parliament passed a
bill designating the entire American military and Pentagon as “terrorist
organizations,” mirroring Washington’s own similar designation of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) last April.
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