Shafaq News / US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday urged Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi to uphold his country’s sovereignty in the face of attacks from Iran on US facilities in Iraq.

Pompeo “expressed his outrage at the continued assaults by Iran’s armed groups against US facilities in Iraq, including yesterday’s rocket attacks against our Embassy, which resulted in one injury,” the State Department said in a statement.

The statement said that “these attacks demonstrate a wanton disregard for Iraqi sovereignty and a failure to rein in these dangerous armed groups.”

The attack was “an attempt to distract Iraqi and international attention away from the brutal suppression of peaceful Iraqi protesters by Iran and its proxies,” the statement said.

Pompeo said on Twitter that “the government of #Iraq must take immediate steps to protect our diplomatic facilities as required by international law.”

On Sunday evening, three rockets slammed into the US embassy, wounding one person, according to a senior Iraqi official and US diplomatic sources. According to AFP

No details were available on whether the casualty was a US national or an Iraqi member of staff.

Iraq’s foreign ministry earlier said the attack would not impact US-Iraqi relations, although Abdel Mahdi and parliament speaker Mohammed Halbusi said it risked dragging their homeland into war.

The attack on the embassy sparked renewed fears that Iraq could be dragged into another armed conflict as its capital and Shiite-majority south are rocked by the country’s largest and deadliest grassroots movement in decades.

The American diplomatic mission in Baghdad has been subjected to several missile attacks in recent months, and this is the second attack in a week.

The Iraqi parliament held a session on the fifth of January, in which it voted on the government's mandate to end the presence of foreign forces in the country, including about 5,200 American soldiers.

This came as a furious response to the United States assassinating the influential Iranian general, Qasim Soleimani, and the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis by bombing a plane in Baghdad, which prompted a response from Iran, which bombed ballistic missiles, an Iraqi military base hosting American soldiers.

The US State Department said in a statement that Pompeo expressed, during the call, "his disapproval with the repeated attacks by Iranian armed groups on US installations in Iraq."