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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[Superman93]

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Interesting tweet I found

Iran threatens Israel almost every other weekend lol

 

[zap2theextreme]

MAGA is getting your leg blown off by an IED for Saudi Princes and returning home to healthcare that probably doesn't even cover your replacement.
Just imagine being nothing more than an Imperial steward of an empire that actively hates you and whose very boot is pressed against your throat.

Being an American soldier in 2020 is the most cucked thing you could possibly be.

 

[Кот Бегемот]

Bah, Iran's ground forces would get their shit pushed in just like Saddam, and the 1944 Germans before him, for the exact reason you say the air war would be a curbstomp.

Air supremacy is a real bitch of a thing, no matter how tough and well trained your grunts are.

air superiority only works well on well defined targets and/or open terrain. Jungle or mountains are not so open.

US has dropped over x2 of bombs over VietNam than in WWII EU campaign, and you know how that went.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

MAGA is getting your leg blown off by an IED for Saudi Princes and returning home to healthcare that probably doesn't even cover your replacement.
Just imagine being nothing more than an Imperial steward of an empire that actively hates you and whose very boot is pressed against your throat.

Being an American soldier in 2020 is the most cucked thing you could possibly be.

So when are we invading Syria for the jews again? I've lost count of how many times we've been through this same routine since April 2017.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

When getting a medical discharge from the military comes in handy for once. Right after I leave, the fun starts up again - and even if they bring the Draft back and fuck everyone else, they cant get Me back lol. Have fun Gen Z.

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After all the rednecks go volunteer first they're going to need to hire fucking Sherlock Holmes to find able bodied men.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

How about a bullet in trumps brain? It happened to Kennedy. Or 300 Us marines turned to jelly in a saudi base? Or trump tower in new york falling down with thousands inside. Nobody gonna smack that one down. Iran thrives on asymmetry. Us may be the world's biggest terrorist state, but Iran is also capable of these games. Tit for tat.

The fact that you unironically believe Iran is capable of any of that is hilarious to say the least.

 

[Stoneheart]

So when are we invading Syria for the jews again? I've lost count of how many times we've been through this same routine since April 2017.

This isnt about Syria anymore. and its pretty different this time... that general Trump just took out was like a popstar in iran and the shia world.

The fact that you unironically believe Iran is capable of any of that is hilarious to say the least.

they are pretty capable for a developing country.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

MAGA is getting your leg blown off by an IED for Saudi Princes and returning home to healthcare that probably doesn't even cover your replacement.
Just imagine being nothing more than an Imperial steward of an empire that actively hates you and whose very boot is pressed against your throat.

Being an American soldier in 2020 is the most cucked thing you could possibly be.

How old are you? Why are you overreacting this hard to otherwise great news when there is no sign of a draft coming? Why are you acting that all this is a Saudi-Israeli plot when this has nothing to do with either? Why are you seriously blubbering about "American imperialism" as if you're a post-modernist college professor at a university when the entity that America is currently opposing is fucking Iran?

Jesus Christ, it's like people's brains are smoothing over in this thread because it's about US activities in the Middle East.

 

[Sped Xing]

air superiority only works well on well defined targets and/or open terrain. Jungle or mountains are not so open.

US has dropped over x2 of bombs over VietNam than in WWII EU campaign, and you know how that went.

US, quite famously, never had air supremacy over Vietnam.

The Taliban caved like a rotten banana when it came to stopping the US getting troops unto thwir territory and shredding them any time they tried to put up a "real fight."

They don't use IEDs because they're cowards. They're trying to win. If they hopped into entrenchments in the mountains, we'd genocide them.

That's why I say the Iranian army would die quickly, but occupying Iran is a nightmare.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

This isnt about Syria anymore.

No fucking shit. But every time we respond to a situation in the middle east we get the same people tard flailing about how this is the end and Drumpft is going to go sip the blood of goyish babies with Bibi.

and its pretty different this time... that general Trump just took out was like a popstar in iran and the shia world

Is it? I already brought up the Syrian airfield strike where Russian soldiers were present. Surely this would be the new Cuban Missile Crisis for the 21st century and Zion Don would blink for his masters. Except it didn't. Any more than the suspicious chemical attacks totally done by Assad allowed Ivanka to force Trump to launch a full ground invasion.

 

[Observotron]

WW3 probably won’t start and the draft won’t be reinstated, but if it does happen and they’re looking for able bodied dudes to fight then I’ll just claim I have aspergers or something.

The only thing they'll need to check is if we have a kiwi farms account.

 

[zap2theextreme]

lmao at this fucking guy thinking linking me to a wikipedia Persian Empire article for dynasties 100s of years ago is an equivalent or even a relevant arguement to America's current global conflict and perpetual war/occupation of the middle east.

 

[Shady Attorney]

18 pages and this hasn’t been posted yet

 

[MrJokerRager]

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

There already drafted, it's called the selective service.

 

[Miles Peterson]

Good on you for mentioning the Millennium Challenge. It got tabled because it showed American commonplace strategies fail to account for a scorched earth/kamikaze policy.

It was suspended because the Red team was constantly, openly cheating. Those small boat he used in sucide attacks? Not only was it impossible to assemble them in such numbers, they physically could not carry the missiles they were being equipped with. That genius move with couriers and other low tech C3 stuff? Well, in real life that stuff has downsides, like being really fucking slow. Guess who forgot about that particular detail?

 

[Freddy Freaker]

There already drafted, it's called the selective service.

Pedantic, I know, but it's like how tons of people think impeached = removed from office. They mean actually restarting the lottery.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

lmao at this fucking guy thinking linking me to a wikipedia Persian Empire article for dynasties 100s of years ago is an equivalent or even a relevant arguement to America's current global conflict and perpetual war/occupation of the middle east.

Again, stop all that damn crying and pay the fuck attention. If you honestly think modern Iran, only 41 years removed from its last monarchy, and run by Shia Islamists, has no imperialist ambitions, you're a fucking idiot.

And nobody is getting drafted into a new war, so all this spastic tard-raging you're doing is premature at best.

 

[Spedestrian]

Jesus Christ, it's like people's brains are smoothing over in this thread because it's about US activities in the Middle East.

They're thinking about the desert so hard that it's sanding all the wrinkles down.

 

[zap2theextreme]

Again, stop all that damn crying and pay the fuck attention. If you honestly think modern Iran has no imperialist ambitions, you're a fucking idiot.

And nobody is getting drafted into a new war, so all this spastic tard-raging you're doing is premature at best.

Holy shit you moron. People aren't mad because they think they're going to be drafted. People are mad because we've spent literally trillions of dollars over the course of this occupation that has gone nowhere and our military budget is inflated to 700 billion dollars. Yet back at home we're told we can't afford healthcare or education or new infrastructure etc..

Apparently imperial ambitions is resisting a belligerent hostile foreign invader that has surrounded you on all sides and proceeded to destroy and destabilize every single country around you. goddamn dude lmao!

 

[The Great Chandler]

Holy shit you moron. People aren't mad because they think they're going to be drafted. People are mad because we've spent literally trillions of dollars over the course of this occupation that has gone nowhere and our military budget is inflated to 700 billion dollars. Yet back at home we're told we can't afford healthcare or education or new infrastructure etc..

Apparently imperial ambitions is resisting a belligerent hostile foreign invader that has surrounded you on all sides and proceeded to destroy and destabilize every single country around you. goddamn dude lmao!

I bet you have a liberal arts degree.