Report: US threatens to close embassy in Baghdad over attacks against it - Walla! News

2020-09-28T18:23:51.479Z

Iraqi government officials and Western diplomats said Pompeo conveyed the message to the Iraqi president. The fear in the country is that the move will lead to the Trump administration's action against Iranian interests, weeks before the election. Tonight, three children and two women were killed by rockets at a house in Baghdad

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Report: US threatens to close embassy in Baghdad due to attacks against it

Iraqi government officials and Western diplomats said Pompeo conveyed the message to the Iraqi president.

The fear in the country is that the move will lead to the Trump administration's action against Iranian interests, weeks before the election.

Tonight, three children and two women were killed by rockets at a house in Baghdad

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Militia supporters demonstrate against US outside embassy in Baghdad, January (Photo: AP)

Since the previous escalation between Iran and the United States, Mustafa al-Khazimi has been appointed Iraqi prime minister, with the support of the United States, but he has struggled to curb the power of Shiite militias despite growing public outrage against them, and rockets are fired every few days at the fortified US embassy compound.

It is the largest American embassy in the world, and is housed in the fortified "Green Zone" since the US occupation after the 2003 invasion.

In recent weeks, rocket launches to the embassy area have intensified, as well as side-by-side bombings against US coalition logistics convoys.

One of the bombs was detonated near a British convoy in Baghdad, the first attack of its kind against Western diplomats in Iraq in several years.

Today, three children were killed and two women were killed when two rockets hit a house in Baghdad.

Police officials said the city airport was the target.

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has millions of supporters, last week called on militias to avoid escalation that would turn Iraq into a battlefield.