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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[GoutCrystals]

Clearly the only way to solve this dispute is with war.

I'm talking boots on the ground kinda war and bringing back the draft.

The first wave of soldiers? Every single tranny and tranny ally that bitched, complained, or Tweeted about Trump de-trooning the US military.

Hey, at least that way we can stamp out the tranny menace.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Clearly the only way to solve this dispute is with war.

I'm talking boots on the ground kinda war and bringing back the draft.

The first wave of soldiers? Every single tranny and tranny ally that bitched, complained, or Tweeted about Trump de-trooning the US military.

Hey, at least that way we can stamp out the tranny menace.

Just send them all of the trannies as a peace offering.

 

[GoutCrystals]

Just send them all of the trannies as a peace offering.

Nah Iran loves troons. But not the white commie non working trannies like we have in the west.

Iran is second only to Thailand for tranny surgeries. It's how they can ensure their whole country is "no homo". None of this "feminine penis" shit

 

[Sped Xing]

Take it from Russia trying to deal with Caucus tribes for several centuries now. Yes centuries, as long as Tsars tried to claim that territory. The best solution so far is to give massive dotations to Chechen's "leader"

I'll go you one better. Let's just blow people uo from afar until we feel better about ourselves, and then leave them to do whatever they want in Afghanistan.

As for Iran, just preventing them from developing nukes is good enough. Bonus points if they piss away lots of treasure trying to build nukes before we blow their facilities up and they have to start over.

 

[Ogg66]

Clearly the only way to solve this dispute is with war.

I'm talking boots on the ground kinda war and bringing back the draft.

The first wave of soldiers? Every single tranny and tranny ally that bitched, complained, or Tweeted about Trump de-trooning the US military.

Hey, at least that way we can stamp out the tranny menace.

Though Iran has a tendency to Trans every gay, no gays in Iran see just people who are the wrong gender so it would be funny and rid us of the clowns.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Nah Iran loves troons. They're second only to Thailand for tranny surgeries.

It's how they can ensure their whole country is "no homo"

Yeah, but maybe if the military leaders have a bunch of new concubines they will be too busy to fight. Plus, the troons get free surgery. Win win.

 

[left arm]

It’s bizarre to me that people seem to be under the impression that the President just randomly decided to strike a foreign country for shits and giggles. Instead of, you know, responding to a direct attack on American soil.

Because saying orange man bad and fearmongering gets you those clicks, whereas rational explanations of why things have happened do not. Something something, my left nutsack lives in Iran, will you all hate orange man now despite the fact most other presidents would've probably done the same.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

And they care a lot. I'm finding all sorts of videos of people way up the chain literally crying over this.

That would seem to suggest that the death of Qasim Soleimani was genuine, although I still find it extraordinarily convenient that he just happened to be in Iraq when the bombs dropped.

 

[zap2theextreme]

"America started it against Iraqis" is a laughable attempt to obfuscate the fact that the American embassy was just minding it's own business in Iraq, only to get an unprovoked attack by Iranian-backed militias.

Frankly, all I'm getting that is you're screaming about the death of Saddam Hussein, and are now vomiting up this hyperbolic nonsense against America in order to make the attack on the US embassy seem justified. You are also implying that we should do nothing when Middle Easterners aggress on US soil because "muh Iraq War".

The embassy shouldn't even exist. I don't even know if I should bother as you seem to be entirely delusional about the reality of the situation. America did start it. The entire premise that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, was working with Al Qaeda, and helped orchestrate 9/11 was a full on lie. The entire situation in the middle-east is predicated on this and the idea that Iran had to secretly concoct some kind of false flag attack on the embassy, and this incident not just being the result of an entire population of people being fed up with decades of American occupation is absurd. Why do you think we're there? Can anyone give an answer? It's not to bring democracy because the result of this War on Terror created the one thing people thought was an impossibility, ISIS, a literal terror state. Look to Syria's oilfields for the real reason we're there. American soldiers holed up around oil pumps acting as nothing more than glorified security guards for corporate interests. It's nothing but bold faced imperial ambitions. Nothing has been accomplished, millions have died, and the United States has put it's national security at risk with every boneheaded decision along the way despite claiming "We fight them there so we don't have to fight them at home." Get your fucking head checked and stop believing in American Exceptionalism because it's one of the most diseased ideologies out there.

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?

The smell of whataboutism in your posts is palpable.

lol

 

[Fareal]

Not much point screaming about how Tehran can't "take revenge in a war". Tehran has no intention of going toe to toe with the US in Iraq.

The "sworn revenge" will come quietly some day in the future against civilians on US soil when no one is expecting it.

It's like no one ever learns anything, no matter how many times this happens in the Middle East.

 

[GoutCrystals]

Yeah, but maybe if the military leaders have a bunch of new concubines they will be too busy to fight. Plus, the troons get free surgery. Win win.

I reckon the first time an Iranian soldier saw a hideous behemoth American Rat King troon, he'd shoot himself.

Can you imagine dumping all those screaming lunatics at the border of that country after giving them weapons*?

Iran would surrender.

(*well after 41% of them immediately suicided upon receiving their gun)

 

[OnMoTi]

The entire premise that Saddam Hussein had WMDs [...] was a lie

You seem to be ignorant of what WMDs actually are.

A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people.

Weapons of Mass Destruction

The United States faces a rising danger from terrorists and rogue states seeking to use weapons of mass destruction. A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people. The Department of Homeland...

www.dhs.gov

Iraq was using chemical weapons in their war against Iran in the 1980s. They were told to destroy them all, and claimed they had (which was a lie.) Both Clinton and Bush acknowledged they lied. The media, however, decided to 1984 the shit and claim WMDs = nukes only, which was never the case. Sort of how they're now conflating legal and illegal immigration.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

Way I see it, Iran has one of two options, either:

-They decide to declare war on one of their neighbours (like Saudi Arabia or Israel) or try to strike one of the US or their allies' other occupied areas within the region
- Realize they're fucked and surrender like the suicidal tards they are.

And given how Iran's fuming over this loss, I fully suspect the former to happen, and for them to realize they're fucked as soon as the US catches on and launches more air strikes on their shithole.

If they formally attack a US ally then they are fucked.

The leaders of Iran aren’t idiots. They know that they’ll lose to the US but at the same time they know how costly it would be for the US to invade Iran. It is better for Iran to remain where it is as a thorn to US power in the ME.

This is actually a benefit to the US as it keeps the other major powers in the region, namely Israel and Saudi Arabia in check and allied with each other.

If Iran is defeated and the Saudi faction gains power, the US would be forced to with either Israel or SA and domestic pressure would force the US to support Israel. The Saudis could trigger another oil crisis like in 1973 and despite the increase in US oil production, another 1973 crisis would be disastrous for America’s and the global economy.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

The embassy shouldn't even exist. I don't even know if I should bother as you seem to be entirely delusional about the reality of the situation. America did start it. The entire premise that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, was working with Al Qaeda, and helped orchestrate 9/11 was a full on lie. The entire situation in the middle-east is predicated on this and the idea that Iran had to secretly concoct some kind of false flag attack on the embassy, and this incident not just being the result of an entire population of people being fed up with decades of American occupation is absurd. Why do you think we're there? Can anyone give an answer? It's not to bring democracy because the result of this War on Terror created the one thing people thought was an impossibility, ISIS, a literal terror state. Look to Syria's oilfields for the real reason we're there. American soldiers holed up around oil pumps acting as nothing more than glorified security guards for corporate interests. It's nothing but bold faced imperial ambitions. Nothing has been accomplished, millions have died, and the United States has put it's national security at risk with every boneheaded decision along the way despite claiming "We fight them there so we don't have to fight them at home." Get your fucking head checked and stop believing in American Exceptionalism because it's one of the most diseased ideologies out there.





lol

I would not bother to be honest; The conservatives on here have gone full conservitard over the idea of dominating another country. If this escalates then many of the people on here will turn into unironic neocons.

 

[Aib Ld]

DUDE BLORMPFT JUST ROCKET STRIKED AN AIRFIELD IN SYRIA!!1! AND RUSSIANS WERE THERE!!!! ZION DON IS FINALLY SELLING US ALL OUT TO DIE FOR THE KIKES GAME OVER MAN!!!1!1!!

I forgot that happened. It was such a miniscule thing to care about.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

The embassy shouldn't even exist. I don't even know if I should bother as you seem to be entirely delusional about the reality of the situation. America did start it. The entire premise that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, was working with Al Qaeda, and helped orchestrate 9/11 was a full on lie. The entire situation in the middle-east is predicated on this and the idea that Iran had to secretly concoct some kind of false flag attack on the embassy, and this incident not just being the result of an entire population of people being fed up with decades of American occupation is absurd. Why do you think we're there? Can anyone give an answer? It's not to bring democracy because the result of this War on Terror created the one thing people thought was an impossibility, ISIS, a literal terror state. Look to Syria's oilfields for the real reason we're there. American soldiers holed up around oil pumps acting as nothing more than glorified security guards for corporate interests. It's nothing but bold faced imperial ambitions. Nothing has been accomplished, millions have died, and the United States has put it's national security at risk with every boneheaded decision along the way despite claiming "We fight them there so we don't have to fight them at home." Get your fucking head checked and stop believing in American Exceptionalism because it's one of the most diseased ideologies out there.

Stop projecting your own asspain onto the Iraqis, who actually celebrated when news came out of Qasim Solemani's death.

Again, this is a one-and-done response to a direct attack on a US embassy, not whatever "imperial ambitions"/corporate interests/American Exceptionalism you're screeching yourself raw about.

lol

Not whataboutism. Just pointing out your clear double standards in decrying "imperialism".

 

[OnMoTi]

I would not bother to be honest; The conservatives on here have gone full conservitard over the idea of dominating another country. If this escalates then many of the people on here will turn into unironic neocons.

Yeah! We should do what the liberals did, send them pallets of cash. Because that will make them follow the rules. Oh, wait, they violated the nuclear agreement immediately by not destroying their weapons research data.

 

[Athena Wild]

Shit in the middle east was fucked long before we even existed.

 

[Shield Breaker]

I would not bother to be honest; The conservatives on here have gone full conservitard over the idea of dominating another country. If this escalates then many of the people on here will turn into unironic neocons.

I don’t think that we should have been over there to begin with. Zap is acting like a reťard though. If he made his points without acting like a cow, it'd be different.

 

[ChickenGoesBawk]

So there was just an Iranian general chilling in Iraqi territory with a group that just took credit for attacking an embassy?
What the fuck did he think was going to happen?

Exactly what I was thinking. Just what exactly was he doing over there?