Zarif lashes out at Trump on Baghdad rocket attack claims

“Putting your own citizens at risk abroad won't divert attention from catastrophic failures at home,” Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Thursday reacting to Trump's claims over Iran involvement in Sunday's rocket attacks in the Iraqi capital. 

The tweet also incorporated a photo showing Trump’s old tweets back in 2011 to his predecessor Barack Obama in which Trump accused Obama of trying to wage a war on Iran.

“Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected--be careful Republicans!".

Another tweet by Trump in 2012 read, “I always said @BarackObama will attack Iran, in some form, prior to election.”

Late on Sunday, the Iraqi officials announced that at least three Katyusha rockets had landed within Baghdad’s Green Zone.

The rockets landed near the US diplomatic mission, causing sirens blaring within the compound without any casualties apart from some material damage.

On Wednesday, Trump accused Iran of being behind the recent rocket attack, warning Tehran that he would hold it accountable “if one American is killed” in rocket attacks in Iraq.

“Our embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets. Three rockets failed to launch. Guess where they were from: IRAN. Now we hear chatter of additional attacks against Americans in Iraq...,” Trump claimed in a tweet on Wednesday night. “If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible. Think it over,” he added.

Zarif also published an index of US's deadliest days due to a particular catastrophe in the last 100 years.

The ninth, tenth, and sixteenth of December 2020 have been the first to third deadliest days in the United States in the past 100 years. More than 3,000 people were killed in each of these days.

Source: Iran Daily