Iraq says shared info that France, US were targets

A guitar with white roses is left at a memorial along a police cordon set-up close to the Bataclan concert hall on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)

Iraqi foreign minister Ibrahimal-Jaafari has said that his country’s intelligence services shared information they had which indicated that France, the United States and Iran were among countries being targeted for attack.

He did not elaborate, but the comments came after 129 people were killed in Paris on Friday by gunmen and suicide bombers in attacks claimed by ISIS.

“Information has been obtained from Iraqi intelligence sources that the countries to be targeted soon, before it occurred, are Europe in general, specifically France, as well as America and Iran,” Mr Jaafari said from the sidelines of talks in Vienna on ending the war in Syria on Saturday.

He said that the countries had been informed.

A video of his comments was posted on his website.

Though he did not specify the threat was from ISIS militants, who control large areas of Iraq and Syria, Mr Jaafari said that recent attacks in Egypt, Lebanon and France required a global response to the jihadist group.

France denounced Friday’s strikes at the packed Bataclan concert hall, restaurants and bars, and outside the Stade de France national stadium as an act of war.

Prsedent Francis Hollande on Saturday vowed to destroy ISIS, which it has been targeting with airstri-kes in Syria as part of a US-led coalition.