A rocket landed in the green zone of Baghdad, near the US Embassy

A katyusha rocket he fell this Sunday without causing damage in the green zone of Baghdad, a district in which are the main buildings of the Iraqi government and embbadies, including the United States, whose nonessential staff was withdrawn last Wednesday in a context of increasing tensions with Iran in the Persian Gulf.

The Iraqi Ministry of Defense said in a statement on public television that the projectile was fired from the region of Al Ghadir, a Shia-majority area east of the Iraqi capital, and hit an empty spot in the Green Zone.

The Green Zone's security alarms went off a few minutes after the blast, which could be heard in several areas of central Baghdad, according to the agency. EFE.

The Green Zone is the central area of ​​Baghdad that has been fortified since 2003 and which, for the first time, was reopened to the public last December.

Last Wednesday, citing security reasons, The United States ordered the evacuation of non-essential personnel from its embbady in Iraq, which is located in this area, and its consulate in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan region (north).

The governments of Germany and the Netherlands then decided to suspend the training tasks of the Iraqi and Kurdish troops led by his soldiers in this country, on the basis of threats to security.

The US oil company Exxon Mobil evacuated yesterday and today all its foreign personnel from the Al Qurna 1 oil field in the Iraqi province of Basra in the south of the country.

Last September, the United States closed its consulate in Basra after shots were fired near the building, which Washington has accused of militias backed by the Iranian regime.

Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain called on its citizens to leave Iraq and Iran "immediately" for their "security".

The tension in the area began to rise last weekend after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will denounce the alleged sabotage of several ships in the waters of the Persian Gulf.

Iraq is one of Iran's main political and trade partners, and has already said in the past that it will not change its relations with Iran, whose government supports Iraqis, who are influenced by Shiite groups, predominant branch of Islam as a whole.