Iran’s Forewarned Strikes Give Trump a Path to Avert All-Out War
- Attack seen as measured with warning given to avoid casualties
- Iran looks to appease anger at home without provoking war
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called it a “crushing response.” Yet the targeted missile strikes on U.S. bases in Iraq may offer President Donald Trump a path to avoiding a wider war with unpredictable and devastating consequences.
There were no American casualties resulting from the overnight attack, according to a U.S. official, and Iraq said that no coalition forces on its territory were killed. What’s more, Iran gave prior notice of the strikes, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s office said in a statement.