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Iran believed to have deliberately missed US forces in Iraq strikes: sources

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Reuters
08 January, 2020, 10:10 pm
Last modified: 08 January, 2020, 10:15 pm

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Iran believed to have deliberately missed US forces in Iraq strikes: sources

“They wanted to respond but almost certainly not to escalate,” a US source said

Reuters
08 January, 2020, 10:10 pm
Last modified: 08 January, 2020, 10:15 pm
Iran believed to have deliberately missed US forces in Iraq strikes: sources

Iran is believed to have deliberately avoided US military casualties during retaliatory missile strikes on bases housing American troops in Iraq, following the US killing of an Iranian general, according to US and European government sources familiar with intelligence assessments.

The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday the Iranians were thought to have targeted the attacks to miss US forces to prevent the crisis from escalating out of control while still signaling Iranian resolve in response to the US killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq last week.

A source in Washington said overnight that early indications were that there were no US casualties following the strikes on the al-Asad air base and another facility in Erbil. Other US officials declined comment.

Iran was believed to have tried to hit certain parts of the bases to minimize casualties and especially to avoid US fatalities, three sources said. This assessment included some intelligence from inside Iran confirming the nature of the attack plan, they said.

"They wanted to respond but almost certainly not to escalate," one of the US sources said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran took "proportionate measures" in self-defense and did not seek war with the United States.

US President Donald Trump, who ordered the drone strike that killed Soleimani in Baghdad on Friday, gave an initial response to the Iranian missile attacks, saying on Twitter: "All is well!"

After Soleimani's killing

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