Iraq will send delegations to Washington and Tehran to help “halt tension” amid fears of a confrontation between the United States and Iran in the Middle East, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said Tuesday.
He said there were no Iraqi groups that wanted to push towards a war, two days after a rocket fired in Baghdad landed close to the U.S. embassy.
Also Tuesday, Rouhani called the U.S. administration “novice politicians with naive ideas,” saying President Donald Trump had stepped back from his threats against Tehran after military aides advised him against a war with the Islamic Republic.
In a speech broadcast live on state television, Rouhani also said the unity of the Iranian nation changed Trump’s decision to wage war.