Irbil missile barrage shows how dangerous a nuclear armed Iran could be, warns top US official

RIYADH : US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday condemned Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Irbil, and said Washington was working to help Iraq get missile defense capabilities to defend itself.

This file photo shows the test firing of Iran's home-built surface-to-surface Fateh 110 missile similar to those used in the IGRC's attack on Irbil

Sullivan told CBS’s “Face the Nation” program that while no US citizens were harmed in the attack, and no US facilities were hit, the missile barrage only shows how dangerous Iran could be.

“One thing I will say is that the only thing more dangerous than Iran armed with ballistic missiles and advanced military capabilities is an Iran that has all of those things and a nuclear weapon,” he said.

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