For the first time, a US television channel published new video clips showing the moment Iranian missiles landed on a base where American soldiers are stationed in Iraq, early last year, in response to the killing of the Iranian Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, in an American raid near Baghdad Airport.
The footage broadcast by the American "CBS NEWS" channel in the "Sixty Minutes" program shows Iranian ballistic missiles landing on sites at the Iraqi army’s Ain al-Assad military base, where about two thousand American soldiers are stationed, in the largest ballistic missile attack on The launch against US forces.
The channel said that a drone filmed the footage, which showed that the American soldiers who were in the line of fire could do nothing but run or search for cover.
According to the report, each Iranian missile carried a warhead weighing more than 1,000 pounds.
US military spokesmen confirmed that more than 50 aircraft and a thousand soldiers had been evacuated before the missiles struck, and the best hiding place was from the remnants of the air raid shelters built during the era of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but there were not enough of them.
Most of the American soldiers were also sent to the desert, where they watched the attack from a safe distance.
And the US Department of Defense, "the Pentagon", said in an earlier statement that 109 of its soldiers had suffered a concussion as a result of the Iranian missile attack.
According to the Pentagon, the Iranian missile attack on the base did not result in the deaths of any American forces.
Iran launched its missile attack on the Ain Al-Assad base on January 8, 2020, in response to the US drone strike ordered by former President Donald Trump 6 nights earlier, which killed Soleimani.
Washington accuses Soleimani of orchestrating attacks that killed more than 600 American soldiers, and according to US intelligence reports, Soleimani was planning imminent attacks against American interests and targets.