US downplays rocket attack amid Iran war fears

Published May 21, 2019 12:26am ET



Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s team is not hurrying to blame Iran for an explosion near the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, despite alarm that the regime will attack American forces in Iraq.

“A low-grade rocket did land within the International Zone near the U.S. Embassy,” a State Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner on Monday. “At present there are no claims of responsibility.”

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