US President
Donald Trump warned Tehran it would "pay a very big price" after a mob of pro-Iranian demonstrators stormed the
American embassy compound in Iraq, as his government said it is sending hundreds more troops to the Middle East.
Angered by US air strikes that killed two dozen paramilitary fighters on Sunday, hundreds of
protesters spilled through checkpoints in the high-security Green Zone Tuesday, demanding the removal of American troops from
Iraq and voicing loyalty to a powerful Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the attack was "orchestrated by terrorists," one of whom he named as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.