Iran condemns assassination attempt on Iraqi prime minister
While many have speculated that Iran-backed militias were behind the attack, hard-line Iranian media outlets pointed the finger at the United States.
Iran has condemned the drone attack on the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
Sunday morning, news reports surfaced that three drones had attacked the home of Kadhimi in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. According to Iraqi sources, two of the drones were shot down by the prime minister’s security forces and one got through. Some security officials were wounded in the attack, but Kadhimi himself was unharmed.
The first Iranian official to condemn the attack on the prime minister was secretary of the Supreme National Security council Ali Shamkhani, who tweeted in English, Persian and Arabic, that the attack "is a new sedition that must be traced back to foreign think tanks, which have brought nothing but insecurity, discord & instability to oppressed Iraqi people through creation & support of terrorist groups & occupation of this country for years.”
According to Iranian backed Lebanese media, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani, travelled to Iraq on a previously unannounced visit. According to the sources, Ghaani met with Kadhimi and also Barham Salih, Iraq’s president. In the meetings, Ghaani reportedly said that Iraq needs “stability and domestic security and unity.”
