War Iran-United States Military Crisis of 2020 - US Baghdad embassy under siege, rocket fire in US Baghdad green zone, Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 crash, and more!

January 10th:
Exclusive: Informants in Iraq, Syria helped U.S. kill Iran's Soleimani - sources (archive)(post)
Iraqi Shia cleric whose militia killed American troops says crisis is over following Iran strike and Trump speech (archive)(post)
Iraqi PM tells US to decide mechanism for troop withdrawal (archive)(post)
Mike Pence says Congress might 'compromise sources and methods' if fully briefed on the Soleimani strike (archive)(post)
Unidentified planes hit Iraqi militiamen in Syria, killing 8 (archive)(post)
Iraq: The Master Of Mayhem Meets A Missile (archive)(post)
Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter (archive)(post)
Iran uses BULLDOZERS to clear debris from plane crash site while accusing US of ‘big lie’ that they shot it down (archive)(post)
Swiss Back Channel Helped Defuse U.S.-Iran Crisis (post)

January 11th:
UKRAINIAN AIRCRAFT WAS BROUGHT DOWN IN IRAN DUE TO 'HUMAN ERROR' (archive)(post)
Iran minister says 'human error' caused by 'US adventurism' led to deadly crash of Ukrainian jetliner (archive)(post)
Ukrainian aircraft was brought down in Iran due to 'human error' (archive)(post)
Trump, at Ohio rally, says Democrats would have leaked Soleimani attack plans (archive)(post)
The Atlantic's David Frum blames Trump for downing of plane in Iran, deaths of 176 (archive)(post)
Associated Press changes ‘shockingly bad’ headline about Soleimani, Ukrainian plane crash after backlash (archive)(post)
GOP Rep. Doug Collins apologizes for saying Democrats are 'in love with terrorists' (archive)(post)
Iran demands West 'show findings' as new video reveals aircraft was struck before fiery crash (archive)(post)
Warren town hall interrupted by angry protester accusing her of ‘siding with terrorists’ (archive)(post)
Trump administration announces new sanctions on Iran (archive)(post)
Prepare For the Worst From Iran Cyber Attacks, As DHS Issues Warning: Experts (archive)(post)
Trump tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham 'four embassies' were targeted in imminent threat from Iran (archive)(post)
Trump tweets support for Iranian protesters as they demand Khamenei quit (archive)(post)
Trump warns Iran against ‘another massacre’ as protests flare over downed jet (archive)(post)

January 12th:
Trump tweet in Farsi 'the most liked Persian tweet' in history of Twitter (archive)(post)
Iraq warned to keep US troops or risk financial blow-WSJ (archive)(post)
Iran arrests UK ambassador in what Britain calls ‘flagrant violation of international law’ (archive)(post)

January 13th:
Trump authorized Soleimani's killing 7 months ago, with conditions (archive)(post)

edit: This is a WIP. All links are posted in the order they appear in the thread, not in chronological order of their publication.


---Original OP before the merge---
Iraqi supporters of Iran-backed militia attack US Embassy
https://apnews.com/75228a8a607a44863b57021ac33264dc (http://archive.vn/ljm9Y)

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA12 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — Dozens of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday after smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound and at least three U.S. soldiers on the roof of the main building inside embassy. It was not clear what caused the fire at the reception area near the parking lot of the compound. A man on a loudspeaker urged the mob not to enter the compound, saying: “The message was delivered.”

The embassy attack followed deadly U.S. airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. military said it was in retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that it had blamed on the militia.

Dozens of protesters marched inside the compound after smashing the gate used by cars to enter the embassy. The protesters, many in militia uniform, stopped in a corridor after about 5 meters (16 feet), and were only about 200 meters away from the main building. Half a dozen U.S. soldiers were seen on the roof of the main building, their guns were pointed at the protesters.

Smoke from the tear gas rose in the area, and at least three of the protesters appeared to have difficulties breathing. It wasn’t immediately known whether the embassy staff had remained inside the main building.

The protesters hanged a poster on the wall: “America is an aggressor.”

Shouting “Down, Down USA,” the crowd tried to push inside the embassy grounds, hurling water and stones over its walls. They raised yellow militia flags and taunted the embassy’s security staff who remained behind the glass windows in the gates’ reception area. They sprayed graffiti on the wall and windows in red in support of the Kataeb Hezbollah militia: “Closed in the name of the resistance.”

Hundreds of angry protesters, some in militia uniforms, set up tents outside the embassy. As tempers rose, the mob set fire to three trailers used by security guards along the embassy wall.

No one was immediately reported hurt in the rampage and security staff had withdrawn to inside the embassy earlier, soon after protesters gathered outside.

The U.S. attack — the largest targeting an Iraqi state-sanctioned militia in recent years — and the subsequent calls by the militia for retaliation, represent a new escalation in the proxy war between the U.S. and Iran playing out in the Middle East.

Tuesday’s attempted embassy storming took place after mourners and supporters held funerals for the militia fighters killed in a Baghdad neighborhood, after which they marched on to the heavily fortified Green Zone and kept walking till they reached the sprawling U.S. Embassy there.

AP journalists then saw the crowd as they tried to scale the walls of the embassy, in what appeared to be an attempt to storm it, shouting “Down, down USA!” and “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday’s strikes send the message that the U.S. will not tolerate actions by Iran that jeopardize American lives.

The Iranian-backed Iraqi militia had vowed Monday to retaliate for the U.S. military strikes. The attack and vows for revenge raised concerns of new attacks that could threaten American interests in the region.

The U.S. attack also outraged both the militias and the Iraqi government, which said it will reconsider its relationship with the U.S.-led coalition — the first time it has said it will do so since an agreement was struck to keep some U.S. troops in the country. It called the attack a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty.

In a partly televised meeting Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi told Cabinet members that he had tried to stop the U.S. operation “but there was insistence” from American officials.

The U.S. military said “precision defensive strikes” were conducted against five sites of Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq and Syria. The group, which is a separate force from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, operates under the umbrella of the state-sanctioned militias known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Many of them are supported by Iran.

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[Y2K Baby]

surprisingly bipartisan when it comes to drone death.

>surprisingly
How naive.

 

[Superman93]

Parody account but still made me laughed

 

[No Ma'ams Land]

>surprisingly
How naive.

As American as gender-neutral apple pie. The Ds continue to tout their anti-war posturing and their supporters still gobble it up.

 

[Shield Breaker]

When you brutalize, demolish, and rape a country for 20 years and destabilize it so badly that a literal death cult takes over, and you continue to proceed to bomb the people that are attempting to fight it you don't need to "instigate" an attack. Motherfuckers are going to storm an embassy

Calm your tits.

 

[Freya]

Indeed. Now maybe the Iranians might rethink what they're doing. Keep it up, send some more Iranian generals so we can kill them, too.

"we" lol

The US military machine works in spite of us, not for us. The embassy wouldn't have been attacked if the US was more concerned with its own national security instead of Israel's

 

[Spooky Bones]

This tweet did not age well.

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Referring to POTUS as "that guy" made me smiley inordinately. He's not wrong in point #2 though, but needs more #MargBarYisrael

 

[theshep]

Found this from /pol/, was he a in car or something that he looks like someone sweeped all the parts together like a cube. On a side note, most of /pol/ is mad and figured out he was a hardcore zionist all along.

Put that shit behind a spoiler tag. I'm eating lunch.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Why do people always assume trump is being bombastic and a blowhard when he says he's going to do something? Everytime he says he's going to do something he does it. Tehran has to be seething right now.

 

[Y2K Baby]

When you brutalize, demolish, and rape a country for 20 years and destabilize it so badly that a literal death cult takes over, and you continue to proceed to bomb the people that are attempting to fight it you don't need to "instigate" an attack. Motherfuckers are going to storm an embassy

Especially one as important of a cultural touchstone and essentially, one of the oldest civilizations on the planet.

 

[Spooky Bones]

To be fair, I don't really hate Iran. But honestly, trying to fuck up our shit in Iraq is an affront to our national dignity and bears answering. I repeat I do not see any chance that there is going to be boots on the ground in Iran. More servicemen are probably going to die in helicopters than on the ground. If we're putting Iran in a bind that they have to respond to the martyrdom of one of their best dudes then they put us in a bind by him probably stirring the shit in all kinds of ways that aren't even reported yet. Unfortunately this is how wars start but I think we'll stay lobbing missiles from behind the borders of Iraq.

 

[zap2theextreme]

As American as gender-neutral apple pie. The Ds continue to tout their anti-war posturing and their supporters still gobble it up.

The anti-war movement died with Obama's election. Bush was gone so people thought it was over. Yet Obama expanded Bush's War on Terror frame work with global drone warfare, a global torture regiment, and codified Bush's domestic mass surveillance program. People expected hope and change but got a moderate Republican instead of a progressive Democrat. This is why the dems are mad at Trump. Not because he's racist, sexist, or corrupt (he is), but because he's not as good as keeping the mask on like Obama was. He isn't the perfect steward of the American Empire and his rhetoric and buffoonery reveals America's brutal Imperialism.

 

[Spooky Bones]

I-is it happening?

 

[Tootsie Bear]

To be fair, I don't really hate Iran. But honestly, trying to fuck up our shit in Iraq is an affront to our national dignity and bears answering. I repeat I do not see any chance that there is going to be boots on the ground in Iran. More servicemen are probably going to die in helicopters than on the ground. If we're putting Iran in a bind that they have to respond to the martyrdom of one of their best dudes then they put us in a bind by him probably stirring the shit in all kinds of ways that aren't even reported yet. Unfortunately this is how wars start but I think we'll stay lobbing missiles from behind the borders of Iraq.

I agree. The United States will continue what they're doing now, which is blowing individuals up with targeted drone strikes like they have been doing for years. Unless we're attacked directly then I think it could mean boots on ground for better defense that drones will offer.

 

[Super Book]

I see everyone on twitter panicking about how this will start world war 3. Realistically speaking, would this really cause an all out war against nations or is this just some good ol' fearmongering?

 

[No Ma'ams Land]

Trump just mad that Spacey had a larger kill count than him.

Had.

 

[AgriDrThunder]

I see everyone on twitter panicking about how this will start world war 3. Realistically speaking, would this really cause an all out war against nations or is this just some good ol' fearmongering?

Probably not all out war but elevated punch throwing. Just more of the same but slightly more of it.

 

[Spooky Bones]

Fuck no.

If Iran is really exceptional they will try to overthrow Iraq, I mean liberate it from the imperialist infidels. Absolute worst case try invading but full on armed conflict did not work out well for them from 1980-1988 without a major imperialist infidel presence.

 

[Superman93]

I see everyone on twitter panicking about how this will start world war 3. Realistically speaking, would this really cause an all out war against nations or is this just some good ol' fearmongering?

To be 100% honest with you depends on Iran's response.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

I see everyone on twitter panicking about how this will start world war 3. Realistically speaking, would this really cause an all out war against nations or is this just some good ol' fearmongering?

Well, I wouldn't fret just yet because the Middle East has been a cluster fuck for a while. The only problem is if The United States and our allies are attacked that will draw out responses by our leaders to confront them and retaliate. What's worse, Iran can have powerful allies like Russia or China at their disposal that can hurt us if we're drawn into war with them, too.

 

[Tookie]

They kept prodding and were going to get slapped eventually. I don't see this leading to a ground war or anything, more of a green light to the Saudis and our other (((friends))) in the region to offload their excess missiles on Iran.