The White House is evacuating nearly half of the staff of the US Embassy in Baghdad and other diplomatic facilities in Iraq in anticipation of Tehran’s retaliation. The Washington Post reports.
The US is wary of retaliation after the assassination of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh near Tehran and on the eve of the anniversary of the assassination by the US military of General of the elite Iranian special forces “Al-Quds” of the IRGC Qasem Soleimani.
The source of the publication said that at the moment dozens of employees are leaving Iraq. The newspaper connects the evacuation with the arrival of the new administration, which will have to “look for ways out of the current situation.”
The fact that Fahrizade became a victim of a terrorist attack near Tehran it became known a > November 27. First, a suicide bomber was blown up on the spot, and then the scientist’s car was fired upon. Several people were killed in the attack. President of Iran Hassan Rouhani blamed on Israel. US intelligence officers linked the assassination of a nuclear physicist with the plans of a US presidential candidate Joe Biden to restore relations with Tehran.
Relations between the United States and Iran have escalated after the assassination by the American military of the general of the elite Iranian special forces “Al-Quds” of the IRGC Qasem Soleimani on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad. In response, on the night of January 8, several American military installations in Iraq were attacked by the Iranian IRGC. After that, the US President Donald Trump announced the introduction of new sanctions.