The head of the Iraqi caretaker government, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, announced that Iran had informed him with an oral message after midnight last night that it had carried out a strike on the American bases in Anbar and Aribel in response to the assassination of the head of the Iranian Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, five days ago, warning that this serious crisis threatens the region and the world with a war A comprehensive destroyer, while the leader of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq faction of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization, Qais Khazali, vowed to strike another, not less than the Iranian response.

Abdul-Mahdi said in a statement on his Facebook account today that Iran had informed him that the strike had started or would begin shortly and would be limited to the whereabouts of the American army in Iraq without specifying their locations, in conjunction with the contact of the American side with it as rockets began falling on the wing of the American forces In Ain Al-Assad bases in Al-Anbar Governorate and Harir in Arbil, in the north of the country and in other locations, indicating that Iraqi military leaders were warned to take the necessary precautions as soon as we received the news of the attack.

He stressed that he had not received reports of any casualties on the Iraqi side or the American-led coalition, stressing that Iraq rejected any violation of its sovereignty and assaulted its territory.

Abdul-Mahdi called on all parties concerned to exercise self-restraint, prevail over the language of reason, adhere to international covenants, respect the Iraqi state, and the decisions of its government, and help them to contain and overcome this serious crisis threatening it, the region, and the world with a devastating, comprehensive war.

For its part, the Joint Operations Command of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced that Iran bombed two military bases, with two American military bases, in response to the killing of Soleimani with an American strike at dawn Friday, with ballistic missiles.

The statement, which was published about seven hours after the attack and did not refer to Iran, indicated that the shelling was carried out with 22 missiles and lasted for half an hour, explaining that 17 rockets on Ain al-Assad air base in Anbar province in western Iraq and five missiles on the city of Arbil, all of them fell on the headquarters of the coalition The international, noting that he "did not record any losses within the Iraqi forces", without detailing the American soldiers.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced in a statement early Wednesday that it had fired "dozens of surface-to-surface missiles at Ain al-Assad base," stressing that the operation was "in revenge for the assassination" of Soleimani.

Khazali said that the Iraqi response would not be less than the Iranian response (Al-Jazeera)

Khazali vowed
Hours after this bombing, the leader of the Asa’ib al-Haq faction, Qais Khazali, vowed on Wednesday to deliver an "Iraqi" strike against US forces no less than the Iranian response, in retaliation for the killing of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iraqi crowd, with an American strike.

Khazali said, "The first Iranian response to the assassination of Soleimani took place, now at the time of the initial Iraqi response to the assassination of Al-Muhandis, and because the Iraqis are brave and jealous, their response will not be less than the size of the Iranian response, and this is a promise."

This threat came five days after Soleimani and the engineer were killed in a US airliner strike near Baghdad airport.

Meanwhile, the leaders of the Kurdistan region of Iraq stressed that a military solution will never solve problems, and called for reducing escalation and seeking dialogue and a diplomatic solution to the problems, and they also urged all parties to refrain from dragging the region into conflicts.

The President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Prime Minister and Speaker of Parliament in the region stressed in a statement today, Wednesday, that the support of the US-led military coalition to fight the Islamic State is necessary and urged the coalition countries to prevent the emergence of the organization again.