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]

President Trump defends authorizing the strike that killed Soleimani: "We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war."
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins)

LOL How the fuck does that work?

 

[Spooky Bones]

Last seen at 6:45 PM yesterday for me. Maybe he was caught in the strike? I haven't seen him since that news broke.

Too busy weeping, gnashing his teeth, and rending his clothes. @3119967d0c is my boy though and I would like to hear his thots.

 

[Adamska]

The funniest part of this whole ordeal for me is that I absolutely fucking refuse to believe that even a tenth of these people had any goddamned idea who Qasem Soleimani was before last night. In the span of minutes every single monkey with a cell phone and an opinion is suddenly a certifiable expert on the Middle East and still somehow can't fathom why anyone would want Soleimani dead.

The only people in the world who didn't want Qasem Soleimani's head on a pike were terrorists and people who had no idea who he even was.

I'll own up and say I've only ever barely heard of Quds Force, but not Soleimani at all. The info I picked up though makes me very happy we yeeted him, since what little I knew of Quds were fuck them. I also really like this approach, it upfronts warned the Iranians try something like this again and more of you, the leaders not the people, will be next.

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CNN comin' at us with the real headline news.

I've yet to find a CNN paypig in the wild, only just it playing on TV silent with no one watching it.

Either way, why the hell not eat ice cream when you demolish this fuck of a person? I'd have went for chicken but this works too.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

I don't know why the people posting in this thread can't wrap their head around the ability to be pro-killing terrorists/defending American sovereignty and anti-war for Israeli goals in the Middle East.

U.S. Embassies are American soil. We kill people who intrude on our soil(unless they are Mexicans because Mexicans are somehow exempt from being called invaders, probably because they vote Democrat. SAD!).

Watch the MSM. Every talking head, anti-Trump, progressive, pedophile elite fagtard under the sun is talking about how this was a terrible thing. So this was clearly the right move and one of the best things ever.

Celebrate the death of these sand monkeys like you were Anakin Skywalker or the Iranian people, my brothers.

 

[Kornheiser]

Last seen at 6:45 PM yesterday for me. Maybe he was caught in the strike? I haven't seen him since that news broke.

He needs a new gimmick because it’s getting old sperging about zionists in almost every post he does. We all know about them so why beat a dead horse?

 

[Freddy Freaker]

UPDATE: 3:30pm EST—
President Trump has now said that he does not seek war with Iran or regime change in Tehran, but has also threatened to conduct more strikes against Iranian interests, if necessary, saying that other targets are "identified" already.

Clearly zionist lies! Drumpft just wants to have two matzos in his soup while he whacks his small penis to dead goyim!

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Flood of WW3 memes because of this are conjuring long buried memories of the memes from the big North Korea missile fearmongering in 2017.

 

[School of Fish]

America Strong; Remove Kebab.

 

[thx1138]

the unprecedented U.S. military operation

Jesus Christ, this author. Nigga, Obama killed how many with drone strikes? And a US citizen in one of them, without due process? How many "ISIS second-in-command" leaders did we bump off? Fuck's sake.

 

[Übertroon]

Flood of WW3 memes because of this are conjuring long buried memories of the memes from the big North Korea missile fearmongering in 2017.

Or the missile strikes against Syria
I mean if this turns into a war I'll be greatly disappointed, but the US should be fully capable of just yeeting whatever the Iranians have outside their own borders and just let them simmer within their own country

 

[TiggerNits]

Jesus Christ, this author. Nigga, Obama killed how many with drone strikes? And a US citizen in one of them, without due process? How many "ISIS second-in-command" leaders did we bump off? Fuck's sake.

Until OBL was murked being 3rd in command of AQ was the world's most dangerous job.

Also, we killed so fucking many NVA officers in targeted strikes/assassinations from 65-73

 

[Dom Cruise]

A war half way across the world can't really "go well", even if it's a brilliant operational success like Desert Storm or the Invasion or Iraq was. Those were still processed as a national trauma, especially because the region proceeded to go to shit not even a decade later.

But if we're talking about how "less bad" a war would go, it all depends on how far the Pentagon is willing to take things. A purely air war could push Iran's shit in without question (their Air Force is very out of date, their pilots are poorly trained and they lack spare parts), but even then Iranian proxy groups would go into a gorilla warfare overdrive, harassing US allies in the ME and fucking their already unstable shit up even worse. This would kill public support for the war very soon, and the US could only hope to quickly bomb them into submission before hippies experience a revival, which is much easier said than done. People underestimate how long a regime like Iran can push it's people.

Now a Land war would be a total, complete disaster. Iran's land forces have modernized a lot in recent years, and they're more competent than any army the US has faced since WW2. They've got a large arsenal of cruise missiles and anti-armor stuff, complete with small fast boats that could be used to kamikaze right into potential landing crafts. Something like this would be extremely causality heavy:

Millennium Challenge 2002 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The only winning move here is not to play.

Yikes, this sounds like a bleaker situation than I initially realized.

However I don't remember Desert Storm being processed as a "national trauma", what exactly do you mean by that?

Just to be clear though the last thing I want is a war, because America isn't in the middle east for the right reasons, it's all fundamentally because of oil, if the middle east didn't happen to be such a large supplier of oil nobody would give a shit what they do.

 

[School of Fish]

With all of the dumb shit that Iran has spouted over the years about how they want to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews and how they keep boasting about how they will also someday destroy the United States, this only shows that they are all bark and no bite.

If Iran is ever dumb enough to try to go to war against the United States then you can bet the whole country will be steamrolled into oblivion in a matter of just a few months. Just take a nice good look at the stuff that Iran currently has now because their military is so laughably outdated that it makes North Korea look good.

 

[XYZpdq]

During the Vietnam draft, people would stay awake for days ahead of their medical screening, do a lot of illegal drugs, or otherwise make themselves appear generally unhealthy to avoid being draft. So, probably that.

oh, uhh, yeah.
Gotta avoid being drafted, that's why I've been doing it. Totally.

Yikes, this sounds like a bleaker situation than I initially realized.

However I don't remember Desert Storm being processed as a "national trauma", what exactly do you mean by that?

Just to be clear though the last thing I want is a war, because America isn't in the middle east for the right reasons, it's all fundamentally because of oil, if the middle east didn't happen to be such a large supplier of oil nobody would give a shit what they do.

yeah Desert Storm was hugely popular and viewed as a celebrated success in its time

as for ramifications, my 8 ball guess that Iran yells and cries but ultimately pussies out, maybe does some random terrorist-y shit in Iraq and other shitholes but nothing of serious consequence

 

[Dickus Biggus]

No Kiwi needs to worry about being drafted. Since being a Kiwi means you are an exceptional retard, also we are on every watch list known to man and a few non-man's.

 

[Christ Cried]

"Trump is a Russian asset bro, he does everything the Russians want. Wait he attacked Iran? Just turn your brain off bigot, vote Biden 2020."

 

[Adamska]

No Kiwi needs to worry about being drafted. Since being a Kiwi means you are an exceptional exceptional individual, also we are on every watch list known to man and a few non-man's.

I'm not remotely worried this is going to be a war like what the fearmongers have a confused fearboner for. Unless Iran wants a lot of air strikes and a quick yeeting.

Besides, flat footed.

 

[Otterly]

There isn’t going to be any official retaliation beyond some sabre rattling because Iran is well aware that’s not a game they will win.
What probably will happen is some small cell will be activated and commit some atrocity against civilians in Europe, soft target type. Some loon/s killing people yelling ‘this is for solomeini’ Then the Iranian regime will be able to hold their hands up and say they had nothing to do with it.
We’ve had this before multiple times. It’s all allahu Akbar amd this-is-for and then we will get some fucking hashtag campaign and a news blitz on why this is actually our fault for being white/western/vaguely civilised.
There will also be knock on repercussions in Iraq and with Hezbollah.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

With all of the dumb shit that Iran has spouted over the years about how they want to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews and how they keep boasting about how they will also someday destroy the United States, this only shows that they are all bark and no bite.

If Iran is ever dumb enough to try to go to war against the United States then you can bet the whole country will be steamrolled into oblivion in a matter of just a few months. Just take a nice good look at the stuff that Iran currently has now because their military is so laughably outdated that it makes North Korea look good.

Not just that, but if the US did go to war, they wouldn't even be using land troops. While @IsaacShraeder would be right that land wars wouldn't end well for the US, they've favored air strikes while trying to get their land troops out of the ME in recent times and have proven incredibly successful in their efforts. Unless Iran tries striking those leaving their country as they were leaving, the US would rather just strike them into glass from the air.

 

[Кот Бегемот]

With all of the dumb shit that Iran has spouted over the years about how they want to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews and how they keep boasting about how they will also someday destroy the United States, this only shows that they are all bark and no bite.

Most of that dumb shit is directed internally. Just listen to Nork news, they are going to nuke US every week for years now. (never mind go to sun at night)

If Iran is ever dumb enough to try to go to war against the United States then you can bet the whole country will be steamrolled into oblivion in a matter of just a few months. Just take a nice good look at the stuff that Iran currently has now because their military is so laughably outdated that it makes North Korea look good.

Well, there are other countries that have interests in Iran, which is why when Iraq had to be steamrolled, a bunch of other nations had to be talked into quiet approval.


I see nothing on this in Russia. They supplied C300 to Syria and Iran and it seems like their air defense is total shit (based on the track record so far) With Russia under sanctions, don't discount the possibility of two asshole nations uniting.