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No serious injuries were reported from the strike, outside the city of Erbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq, and an American official said the consulate site was undamaged.

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• Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement posted on Iranian state media that it had carried out the attack, and it linked the U.S. presence in Iraq with Israel, saying that it had aimed at what it called “the strategic center of the Zionist conspiracies in Erbil.”

• The attack came four days after Iran vowed revenge against Israel for an airstrike in Syria that killed four people, including at least two members of the Revolutionary Guards.

• The Revolutionary Guards Corps said in the statement that it was warning Israel “once again that the repeating of its evil actions will be met with a firm and destructive response.” It added, “We also assure the Iranian people that the country’s security and stability is a red line for the Iranian armed force.”

• Only minor injuries and damage were reported in the attack, which security officials said hit near but not inside the huge new U.S. Consulate complex under construction in a sparsely populated area north of Erbil.

• The minimal impact would suggest that the strike had been calibrated not to bring further retaliation from the United States or Israel.

• There are no known Israeli sites in Iraq, but there is cooperation between U.S. and Israeli intelligence. The governor of Erbil denied there were any Israeli bases in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region.

• The strike also came after nuclear talks between Iran and world powers reached an impasse, and it was unclear what effect it might have on efforts to resume the negotiations.