“The Swiss charge d’affaires was summoned to the foreign ministry… over stances of American officials with regards to developments in Iraq,” the ministry says.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran conveyed its strong protest… over warmongering remarks made by American officials which are in violation of the United Nations Charter,” it adds.
President Donald Trump toughened his rhetoric toward Iran on Tuesday, saying the country would “be held fully responsible” for the attack by Iraqi demonstrators on the United States Embassy compound in Baghdad, an assault that Mr. Trump said was directed by Tehran.
“This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday evening, in some of his most bellicose language of the year toward Iran.
As a result, Trump authorised sending 750 troops to Mideast after embassy attack in Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday. The Pentagon confirmed.
Trump blamed Tehran for the U.S. embassy attack and warned that it would face punishment if Americans are killed. "Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities," Trump said on Twitter.
Also U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Tuesday says US embassy attack in Iraq orchestrated by "terrorists" backed bay Iran.
“The attack today was orchestrated by terrorists – Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qays al-Khazali – and abetted by Iranian proxies – Hadi al-Amari and Faleh al-Fayyadh,” Pompeo said in a tweet.
Tehran denied any involvement either in the attacks against the American contractor that resulted in U.S, air strikes in Iraq and Syria against the Iranian backed Hezbollah.
Supporters of Iraq's pro-Iranian force Hashed al-Shaabi began leaving the encircled US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday but hardliners insisted they would stay, a day after their dramatic incursion into the compound.
Thousands of Iraqi supporters of the largely Iranian-trained Hashed force had gathered at the embassy on Tuesday, outraged by US strikes that killed 25 Hashed fighters over the weekend.
They marched unimpeded through the checkpoints of the usually high-security Green Zone to the embassy gates, where they broke through a reception area, chanting "Death to America" and scribbling pro-Iran graffiti on the walls.
Iraq's caretaker premier Adel Abdel Mahdi called on the angry crowd to leave the embassy but most spent the night in dozens of tents set up outside the perimeter wall.
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