DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD ¨C Iran spurned U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s call for a new nuclear pact and a commander threatened more attacks after both sides appeared to back off from intensified conflict following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehran¡¯s retaliatory missile strikes.
Concern that the Middle East was primed for a wider war eased after Trump gave an address Wednesday that refrained from ordering more military action. But each side¡¯s next move in their protracted shadow war was unclear.
Iran fired missiles Wednesday at sites in Iraq where U.S. troops were based in retaliation for the killing in a U.S. drone attack of powerful Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 3. Tehran¡¯s foreign minister said this ¡°concluded¡± Iran¡¯s response to his death.
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