Iraqi media reported late on Sunday a rocket attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad amid raising tensions with Iran.
Iraqi police said no casualties were reported and confirmed that the rocket hit a zone near the embassy.
The US State Department recently decided to cut off personnel from both its embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, due to security reason and emerging of new threats from neighboring Iran.
A security source told BBC that the Sunday's rocket landed in an abandoned building near the US embassy in Baghdad’s green zone.
The source added that based on the primary investigation the rocket was fired from eastern Baghdad.
Earlier today, Iran’s head of Revolutionary Guards claimed US is afraid of waging a war against Tehran.
“The difference between us and them is that they are afraid of war and don’t have the will for it,” Major General Hossein Salami told Iranian news agency IRNA.
