Iran weighing options before deciding to strike US again

Iranian revenge attacks on US targets in response to Qassem Soleimani's killing may not yet be at an end following Wednesday's missile attack on US bases in Iraq, multiple sources have told Middle East Eye, with Tehran weighing its options over what to do next.

"Iran took and concluded proportionate measures in self-defence under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting [the] base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens and senior officials were launched," Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif, tweeted on Wednesday morning.

However, multiple sources familiar with the discussions taking place in Tehran told MEE that a range of further responses had been prepared and were contingent on the nature of any US response to this morning’s attacks.

MEE further understands that as the missiles were being launched, a four-hour meeting was taking place between the leadership of the IRGC and affiliated Arab groups.

Read Peter Oborne's latest analysis from Tehran here.