Launched from outside Iraq.. 12 missiles targeting the US consulate in Erbil

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[size=52]Launched from outside Iraq.. 12 missiles targeting the US consulate in Erbil[/size]

[size=45]Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that missiles fell in the vicinity of the US consulate in the city of Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, while Washington took the initiative to blame Tehran.[/size]
[size=45]The US State Department explained to Al Jazeera that the attack on the US Consulate in Erbil did not leave casualties or damage[/size]
[size=45]However, the Ministry of the Interior clarified - in a statement that the attack resulted in the slightest injury of one person.[/size]
[size=45]"We condemn the outrageous attack on our consulate in Erbil, and the Iraqi and Kurdish authorities are investigating the incident," the State Department said.[/size]
[size=45]The director of Al-Jazeera office in Erbil, Ahmed Al-Zawiti, stated that the missile strikes targeted the new US consulate building in Erbil on the Salah Al-Din resort road, while the Anti-Terrorism Directorate in Iraqi Kurdistan indicated that 12 ballistic missiles were fired at Erbil from outside Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Reuters quoted a US official as saying that the missiles that targeted Erbil in Iraq were launched from Iran.[/size]
[size=45]The Washington Post, citing an Iraqi official, revealed that the missiles were launched from Iran.[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi News Agency quoted the governor of Erbil, Omid Khoshnaw, as saying that several missiles fell on Erbil.[/size]
[size=45]State television quoted the Minister of Health in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Saman Barzanji, as saying that the Erbil explosions did not result in casualties or injuries.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Zawiti said that unofficial sources indicated that these explosions are not similar to the previous ones, as the sources of the bombing were geographically far away, in addition to hearing violent explosions in separate places inside and outside the city of Erbil, which caused panic among the citizens.[/size]
[size=45]An investigation was opened
and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi condemned these bombings, and confirmed - in a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Masrour Barzani - the start of investigations to find out the sources of this bombing and the parties behind it.[/size]
[size=45]The US forces stationed in the Erbil International Airport complex have been subjected to missile and drone attacks in the past, and US officials have blamed them on armed factions allied with Iran, but such attacks have not occurred for several months.[/size]
[size=45]The last time US forces were attacked with ballistic missiles was in January 2020, in an Iranian response to the US killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad airport earlier that month.[/size]
[size=45]No US military was killed in the 2020 attack, but many suffered head injuries.[/size]
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