Tehran 23 January_The US may send a Patriot missile system to Iraq after neighboring Iran launched a missile attack on American bases in the Arab country in retaliation for Washington's assassination of senior Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, according to US officials.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_US defense officials told Fox News on Wednesday that the Patriot battery would now "likely" be deployed to Iraq.
In the early hours of January 8, Iran launched several missiles at Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq’s Anbar Province and another American military facility in Kurdistan’s regional capital, Erbil, in revenge for the US terrorist act of assassinating General Soleimani and his companions in Baghdad on January 3.
None of the missiles were intercepted and they hit their targets precisely.
Fox News claimed that at the time that there was no US missile system in position to shoot down shoot down Iranian missiles. A senior Pentagon official stressed that they believed an Iranian missile attack was “unlikely.”
Hours after the strike, President Donald Trump claimed that US forces had "suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers were safe and only minimal damage was sustained."
A few days later, however, reports emerged of the injured troops being taken out of Iraq.
The Pentagon announced last week that 11 service members had been flown to medical hospitals in Germany and Kuwait to be “treated for concussion symptoms from the blast."