Missiles Attacks: We Don’t Want War Iran Tells U.S.

PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA - OCTOBER 07: Iran President Hassan Rouhani give a speech inside the Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak office during official visit on October 7, 2016 in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Hassan Rouhani is on a two-day working visit to Malaysia (Photo by Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)
Missiles Attacks: We Don’t Want War Iran Tells U.S.

Missiles Attacks: We Don’t Want War Iran Tells U.S.

Iran foreign minister has insisted they do not want a war despite firing more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing American troops in a revenge attack for the U.S. drone strike that killed their top Iranian general.

Foreign minister Javad Zarif defended the missile strikes saying Iran took ‘proportionate measures’ and was only acting in ‘self defense’ when they struck back at the U.S.

Zarif, however, warned that Iran did not ‘seek escalation or war’ but vowed to continue defending themselves if the U.S. chose to retaliate.

The firing of the missiles late Tuesday was a major escalation between Iran and the U.S. and raised immediate fears that the two longtime enemies were inching closer to war.

But the response from Iran’s foreign minister is one of a few indicators that there might not be further retaliation on either side – at least in the short term.

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