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Iraq's military said that the country was hit by 22 rockets on Wednesday early

In the Early Hours of the morning of 8. In January, Iran's attacks on Iraqi base housing U.S. forces in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad on Last Friday launched killed a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani .

But, despite angry warnings from Tehran that the United States pay would be, a significant price for the kill - no one was hurt by the retaliation attack, according to the US President Donald Trump .

So, Iran has to avoid to be aware of that loss?

What to say Iran and the United States have?

A statement from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary guard Corps (IRGC) said: "tens of thousands of surface-to-surface missiles" started crushing on Wednesday morning "on the occupied air weapons base from terrorists and the aggressor army of the US in Al-Asad", the centre for American military operations in the West of Iraq.

the Iranian Tasnim news Agency reported, in the vicinity of the Iranian revolutionary guard, the Fatah-313-and Qiam missiles were in The Attack , and the U. S. troops do not stop, because they were equipped with cluster warheads. The warheads also caused "dozens of explosions" in the Al Asad, it said.

The U.S. defense Department said that Iran has launched More Than a dozen missiles, the bases selectively at least two Iraqi military - Al Asad, and Irbil, in the semi-Autonomous Region of Kurdistan.

Mr Trump, who is U. S. armed forces have no losses as a result of Iranian missile attacks, and that the bases to be sustainable, "only minimal damage". In a televised statement, which he quotes, "the arrangements, the fragmentation of the forces, and an early warning system that has worked very well", and said: "Iran seems to be at the bottom. "

But the " U. S. 's top officer, army General Mark Milley, said he believed that The Attack was intended to be fatal.

He said his "personal opinion" was that Iran "to destroy structural damage, vehicles and equipment and aircraft, Killing , and employees".

What do the rockets actually made?

in Iraq, the reported military, no injuries, said the country was. on Tuesday, the 22-rocket between 01:45 and 02:15 on Wednesday (22:45-23:15 GMT) hits It is the 17 said missiles were fired in the direction of Al Asad air base.

the satellite images from the commercial company Planet Labs for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies pointed to what was apparently at least five destroyed structures in Al-Asad. David Schmerler, an analyst at the Middlebury Institute, "look, Some of the locations hit, as the missile hit the middle exactly. "

But it was clear that some of the weapons do not hit the bases. Two of the missiles aimed at Al Asad fell in Hitan area, in the West of The Town of Hit, and did not explode, according to the Iraqi military.

photos of the remains of one of these floors, including three large parts of your torso, subsequently appeared in the Social Media .

The Iraqi armed forces said Iran fired five missiles in the direction of the Irbil air base in the Northern Kurdistan region. He has not said how many hits reported on The Base , but state TV that two rockets landed in The Village of Sidan, 16km (10 miles) North-West of The City of Irbil, and that a third rocket came down in the Bardah Rashsh area, about 47km to the North-West of Irbil.

journalists, in the meantime, the security forces photographed retrieve the wreckage of what they believed was The Crater caused by the rocket Bardah Rashsh met.

security forces retrieved the wreckage from The Crater in Bardah Rashsh to avoid Iran of seeking to harm US?

U.S. and EU government sources, that they believed that The Iranians had deliberately tried to minimize losses and to avoid that the US plants, in order to prevent The Crisis escalating out of control, while still signaling their determination.

" CNN journalist Jake Tapper quoted a Pentagon officials say that Iran is "aware of would be, would the loss not of life."

The Washington Post reported that U.S. officials said, did you know until Tuesday afternoon that Iran will attack American targets in Iraq, although it was unclear which.

An early warning came from intelligence sources, to start, as well as the communication to the Iraq, the Iran's intentions, The Strike conveys said The Paper .

David Martin, Pentagon correspondent for the BBC, the US partner CBS, said a defence official said the US had warned of attack "for several hours", what a refuge, a lot of time for the soldiers in a Bunker.

The Source said that this warning came from a combination of satellites and signals and communications intercepts - the same systems that watch for the North Korean tests.

But Mr Martin said he had not found anyone, including a very high-ranking officer Who Knew nothing about a heads-up, from the Iraqi Prime Minister . Not to be missed, these officials agree with the speculation that Iran is the target.

"Our movements, saved American lives," the official told him.

the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus said: "If this remains the design or simply due to the defects in the preparation and the precision of the missiles, however, unclear. To start, however, the battle remote missiles against US bases is a risky way of his point. "

He added: "with a view to the first civilian satellite images, which have destroyed the impact of the Iranian missile on Al Asad air base, they seem to have different structures, so that the lack of deaths could be as much of luck, rather than design. "

iraq, qasem soleimani, iran, united states, iran-us relations

Source of news: bbc.com