Esmail Qaani has traveled to Baghdad to curb tensions caused by the attack which killed three Americans in Jordan.
An Iranian general traveled to Iraq to stop Tehran-backed militias in the country escalating attacks against U.S. forces the day after a drone strike on an American military facility killed three personnel and injured dozens, it has been reported.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Brigadier General Esmail Qaani visited Baghdad on Monday to meet leaders of the Iraqi groups, to «stop [the Iranian-backed Iraqi militias’] military escalation» against U.S. forces, according to Iraqi media, cited by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Washington has blamed Sunday’s drone strike on Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan on Tehran, whose allied militant groups have carried out repeated attacks on American targets since the start of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
