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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[Sissy Galvez]

The Iranians won’t do shit and this dude deserved it. What the hell was he even doing there if not to attack US assets and instigate an Iraqi civil war?

Fuck him and the Ayatollah.

Edit: What a surprise, blue check Twitter is melting down and defending the Iranian terrorist general. Gee wonder why they lose so much...

 

[Basil II]

I get that, but literally Trump made a show of launching missiles at Syria. Shouldn’t that be a sign that you aren’t exactly dealing with Obama or Bush or someone that would pussy out and do negotiations or some shit like that? You would think that it would cross their minds that attacking a US embassy isn’t like attacking a Saudi oil field in the slightest in that light

lmao obama and bush are massive warmongers they just kept that shit on the down low, or atleast obama did. Not sure why you think Bush has a reputation as a peaceful man.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

lmao obama and bush are massive warmongers they just kept that shit on the down low, or atleast obama did. Not sure why you think Bush has a reputation as a peaceful man.

Nah I know they are warmongers. I meant in terms of Obama's red line policy with Syria and how it made him look weak to the rest of the world and how Bush just looked incompetent with the lack of actual plan in terms of what to do after they invaded Iraq. Someone in the Iranian gov't or military literally thought fucking with someone that projected himself as a madman that bombs Syria for a less than convincing reason was a good idea and people just went along with it and thought that it wouldn't blow up in their face somehow. And their top commander was to go with the forces on the ground to Iraq. That's so retarded it actually makes it look like Iran is ran by mental invalids at best or weak strategic faggots that want to size up the US for points where there is a huge risk for loss.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Liberals: Iranian General coordinating with militias to attack US citizens and an embassy in Iraq is not an act of war.

Also Liberals: Killing the man responsible for attacking the US Embassy unprovoked is an act of war.

Do they not realize they’re losing sane voters that see through their shit?

 

[JosephStalin]

I'd say the Iranian regime's respect for the USA has increased. You know they never respected Obama. They figured Trump was more of the same after he pulled back that strike. Well, they fucked up when they not only instigated the attack on our embassy, but had their general go to Baghdad to plan even more strikes against Americans.

You can be very certain all US installations in the Middle East, and likely other parts of the world, are on high alert against any Iranian moves.

Anyone who defends this murderous Iranian cocksucker is no better than he was.

 

[Neil]

Twitter's going fucking ballistic right now with tons of zoomers freaking out about potentially being drafted.

 

[Robotron]

Well now, not even one week into 2020 and shit's already starting to get interesting.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

The Happening Levels of this event have caused me to literally shake with the high energy being radiated.

People are making it sound like Trump did this from outta nowhere. There was an attack on a U.S Embassy. This is a response to that. Disagree with the strike all you want, but this didn't come from outta nowhere.

I am sure that the attack on the Embassy was done because they anticipated no response. Welp.

Seriously. The amount of aspies in here lighting their hair on fire about Trump starting a new war or being a hypocrite is just embarrassing.

 

[Bungus Scrungus]

Let us out. LET US OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTT

Unfunny implementation of a meme in text format aside; please, god. I don't want to keep having to see the US in the Middle East. Do we really need oil? What about Nuclear Power? Surely we have good enough material to ensure no meltdowns within cars and shit, right?

 

[Ashy the Angel]

 

[Super Book]

Twitter's going fucking ballistic right now with tons of zoomers freaking out about potentially being drafted.

It's been like that for hours now. It's going to blow over in a day.

 

[Ghostse]

While I am anti-interventionist, I’m just kinda laughing aboit how the fuck Iran thought stirring up shit with the most powerful military let alone economic power in the world was going to end well, let alone letting a fucking decorated military official on the ground where he got bombed to death. Like what the fuck did you expect, you stupid niggers? And they were ducking with a man that was known with fucking launching Stinger missiles in Syria for even less provocation. Are the Ayatollah and all the fuckboys in the Iranian govt and military legit exceptional?

They had 8 years of bitch-made nigga Obama.

Iranian Guard needs to do an a visible attack against America in the US to shore up their/the government's credibility,so they go after the embassy and get their useful idiots to launch some rockets. I don't know how they didn't notice what happened in Syria, but maybe they just figured the US didn't know where any of their in-country assets were, or that their gimps in the Iraqi government wouldn't let anything go down. They did not count on an absolute madman letting Trumpamania run wild on them in a steel cage.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

Nigger, Iran was literally starting shit by attacking the US Embassy in Iraq and rightfully got their reputation and their fucking top commander literally Blown the Fuck Out. I doubt there's going to be an all out war since Iran is not only surrounded by enemies that want to missile barrage them and would willingly help the US do that, but if you have leadership that thought sending a TOP COMMANDER right in to the heat of the action right when it was happening (all the while, mind, doing this not because of a valid reason like Iraq might be planning to invade us or maybe they need supplies or something, but just out of autistic spite of the US), what the fuck makes you think you could take on the main military power in the world reasonably especially when the fucking Chief Commander of the US Army has literally bombed other countries for less and makes clear that he will bomb you if you fuck with the US like that?

 

[InvertedDickEnthusiast]

Why is I see every checkmark and "Iran/Middle East Policy Expert" essentially screeching, "It's not fair, he was supposed to start a war with Iran!" after this?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I'm waiting for Hillary to weigh in.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

He isn't the perfect steward of the American Empire and his rhetoric and buffoonery reveals America's brutal Imperialism.

As opposed to the 100% non-imperialist Iran?

Stop all that damn crying and pay the fuck attention.

Excellent. Iran will have to launch a large attack after this. This was their no.2 assassinated in cold blood. US will be drawn into another iraq/afghanistan and it will become regional making it the costliest and biggest conflict since korea. China's accendance will accelerate and russia's influence abroad (it will insert itself into the conflict) will also speed up. It doesn't matter who wins or loses militarily. The Us will bleed for years and this is the best case scenario for china's new global order it is building across afro-eurasia with the new silk road. America is done. Seems trump is actually much dumber than I had thought. I figured he had some long term strategic consciousness but guess not.

How much dumber will this post look when this eventually blows over with no new wars?

Nigger, Iran was literally starting shit by attacking the US Embassy in Iraq and rightfully got their reputation and their fucking top commander literally Blown the Fuck Out. I doubt there's going to be an all out war since Iran is not only surrounded by enemies that want to missile barrage them and would willingly help the US do that, but if you have leadership that thought sending a TOP COMMANDER right in to the heat of the action right when it was happening (all the while, mind, doing this not because of a valid reason like Iraq might be planning to invade us or maybe they need supplies or something, but just out of autistic spite of the US), what the fuck makes you think you could take on the main military power in the world reasonably especially when the fucking Chief Commander of the US Army has literally bombed other countries for less and makes clear that he will bomb you if you fuck with the US like that?

Why are you seriously responding to Ashy the Angel when he's doing bait this low-effort?

 

[Near]

RIP drafted zoomers, can't use Dad's credit card on the battlefield

 

[Thistle]

> Enemy General Killed

 

[Philosophy Phil]

WORLD PEACE IS FUCKING DEAD

 

[Terrorist]

He's a POS, has lots of blood on his hands, and deserved to die. But don't act like we wouldn't have overlooked those qualities if some Jew thought he could be useful. It was never about about American lives or morality.

And was this not the guy who kept ISIS and AlQaeda at bay in Iraq? I'm thinking he might have been a necessary evil.