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According to US government sources, insignificant US Embassy staff and their dependents in Baghdad should be evacuated from Iraq due to increased safety risks.
Officials have not said exactly what it caused removal, but in recent days Iran’s nuclear program appears to be silent.
On Wednesday, US State Department spokesman said the BBC: “We constantly evaluate the relevant staff posture in all our embassies.
“Based on our latest analysis, we decided to reduce our mission in Iraq.”
This step comes after weeks of negotiations between the US and Iran – President Trump hoped to make a deal to stop Tehran to develop nuclear weapons.
Trump said he was becoming less confident on Wednesday that Iran would cease to enrich Uranus.
Earlier this week he also held a 40 -minute phone call – said “tense” – with the Prime Minister of Israel, who had long argued with the military, not for the diplomatic approach.
Asked on Wednesday night about the decision of the evacuation of staff from several parts of the Middle East, Trump said: “Well, they will move, because it can be a dangerous place and we will see what will happen.”
He added, “But they were – and we reported to move, and we’ll see what would happen.”
With nuclear negotiations at a critical moment, it is not yet clear how much the American signaling announcement unlike true concern.
But Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasyrzade said his country was avenged against the US bases in the region when the negotiations failed and Trump ordered a military strike against the Islamic Republic.
Reuters news agency reports that US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegset also approved voluntary departure of US military families from the Middle East, including Kuwait and Bahrain.
Testing before the Congress on Wednesday, the Pentagon said he believed there is “a lot of features” that Iran is moving to something that will look like nuclear weapons. “
Iran says the uranium enrichment program is intended for civilian energy and that it does not try to build a nuclear bomb.
Also, on Wednesday, the British Maritime Trade Operations Organization – part of the Royal Fleet – issued a warning that strengthening military tensions in the Middle East could affect sending.
The cost of oil initially increased by more than 4%when the news of the US evacuation broke out, waiting for regional uncertainty that could potentially lead to problems with the supply.
About 2500 US troops are in Iraq, the Ministry of Defense reports.
Additional Tom Beytman’s Tom in Washington
