U.S. says threat from Iran still high after U.S. retaliatory strikes in Iraq

The threat from Iran is still high, even after the United States carried out retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq blamed for killing U.S. and British forces in a rocket attack this week, a top U.S. general said on Friday. Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, said he believed the U.S. retaliatory strikes against five weapons storage facilities in Iraq would deter “future strikes of this nature.”

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