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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[Jewelsmakerguy]

Something tells me they'll go with both approaches- Attack the US and its ME allies on the ground on theri own turf, and the US itself (and possibly its allies outside the ME) via cyber attacks as a distraction while they carry out those ground attacks.

I can't see them trying to launch a missile into the US itself without everyone else knowing about it.

 

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He got yeeted by a drone while our president ate ice cream.

He went out like a bitch.

So, basically what you're saying is, while the guy who beat ISIS was murdered, Trump ate ice cream?

While Trump set up your soldiers for unneccessary death, he was eating icecream?

Yeah, real powerful, you Jew-worshipping faggot. No wonder conservatives like you have never conserved anything.

 

[School of Fish]

So, basically what you're saying is, while the guy who beat ISIS was murdered, Trump ate ice cream?

While Trump set up your soldiers for unneccessary death, he was eating icecream?

Yeah, real powerful, you Jew-worshipping faggot. No wonder conservatives like you have never conserved anything.

Do come back to us when you dipshits can actually land a man on the moon and learn what Newton's three laws of motion really are.

Who knows, maybe someday the middle east could be on par with actual competent nations that have done more and can do a lot of cool stuff and not chopping people's heads off because someone talked shit about Muhammad. I like to see you try.

 

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Do come back to us when you dipshits can actually land a man on the moon and learn what Newton's three laws of motion really are.

Who knows, maybe someday the middle east could be on par with actual competent nations that have done more and can do a lot of cool stuff and not chopping people's heads off because someone talked shit about Muhammad. I like to see you try.

Let me know when you actually go back to the moon (or go there at all for that matter).

It's incredibly obvious that America is no longer capable of anything of this nature. Will the lady pilots of the 'Space Force' be getting pregnant to avoid deployment like your 'Navy'?

 

[Adamska]

So, basically what you're saying is, while the guy who beat ISIS was murdered, Trump ate ice cream?

While Trump set up your soldiers for unneccessary death, he was eating icecream?

Yeah, real powerful, you Jew-worshipping faggot. No wonder conservatives like you have never conserved anything.

Wow, you read your Pravda tier birdcage liner seriously; it's telling your country went through 8 centuries of decline and misery with wit like this.

And I'm a lib you wannabe Turkroach.

 

[School of Fish]

Let me know when you actually go back to the moon (or go there at all for that matter).

It's incredibly obvious that America is no longer capable of anything of this nature. Will the lady pilots of the 'Space Force' be getting pregnant to avoid deployment like your 'Navy'?

Science flies you to the stars, religious fanaticism flies you into skyscrapers.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

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.

That's because this is what became insanely successful for them in Iraq during the back end of the US involvement there. Special Forces snatch teams (more often than not, the UK's SAS being borrowed) would do a lot of the ground work and guiding in, usually backed by heavy hitters of Delta or the Marines in case shit went wrong. This proved so hilariously effective you can see the US military has basically adopted this practise wholesale for their own special forces teams.

Eh? The only flaw in this line of thinking is to quote an article I read somewhere today, "we may have just killed the only adult in the room with regards to Iran". in other words Soleimani might have been the one advising them to keep their responses limited and deniable. He was so high in the chain of command that we don't really know what the next buffoon will do?

Although looking at him, you can tell he figures he'll be dead in a week.
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Those eyes look quite haunted with that look of "I'm so fucked!"

"The only adult in the room" was responsible for sending screeching, armed protesters to the US embassy forgetting that Trump operates a brinkmanship diplomacy policy as opposed to the whimper and roll over of the Obama years.

This sounds like desperate shill spinning by the media pretending the orange man blew up the only "good iranian" rather than the fucking monster he clearly was. Those eyes aren't haunted.

They're utterly soulless.

 

[Slappy McGherkin]

And the same thing will someday happen to Iran too. Here they are thinking that Allah will save them but just like the Japanese before with their blind total religious devotion to the emperor, the country of Iran will also suffer the same fate because they refuse to see the reality of things.

That's not really your average Iranian, though. Muslim, yes. Devoted to the Mullahs and Allah? Not so much. The Iranian people want to be free of this theocratic plague that's been ruling them for so many years now. Why do you think Qud came down so hard on the recent protesters? Flat out killing them in the streets? It's about the only way the mullahs can retain power and they have to set an example and squelch it immediately before the idea of a "free" Iranian people spreads like a virus.

Dead general? Fuck him, he's had it coming for years. The Iranian population as a whole? They don't want this shit anymore than we do, but the people are forced into lockstep by guns to their heads. The general dying is a cause for celebration. It's not going to be any kind of rallying cry to the Iranian people as a whole. Only those that are already brainwashed.

Just my .02, if it's even worth that.

 

[Stoneheart]

Do come back to us when you dipshits can actually land a man on the moon

hmm Von Braun is a very American name...

Let me know when you actually go back to the moon (or go there at all for that matter).

they cant, Its very hard to snatch up Nazi Personal in 2020 and all those diversity hires wouldnt be to happy...

 

[RodgerDodger]

So, basically what you're saying is, while the guy who beat ISIS was murdered, Trump ate ice cream?

While Trump set up your soldiers for unneccessary death, he was eating icecream?

Yeah, real powerful, you Jew-worshipping faggot. No wonder conservatives like you have never conserved anything.

no, we're saying the guy who just recently brought a small army of foreign terrorists into Iran in order to Massacre the Iranian Citizenry was served Justice while attempting to turn one of his angry mobs of terrorist thugs against a US Diplomatic Target. Some Martyr awash with the blood of his own people, solely to preserve his own depraved power base.

 

[It's HK-47]

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.

I don't fault anyone for not knowing him by name, since that's really not a name that your average, everyday citizen would be aware of. My point's more-so directed towards all the people defending him right now, which is just fucking laughable because even the Goddamned motherfucking U.N. had labeled him as a terrorist and enforced a travel ban and an asset freeze against him.

Not even the U.N. liked him. Everyone knew he was a fucking terrorist.

Iran Quds chief visited Russia despite U.N. travel ban: Iran official

The head of Iran's elite military Quds Force, who is subject to a United Nations travel ban, has met senior Russian officials in Moscow, an Iranian official said on Friday.

www.reuters.com

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Regardless of who the blame for all this ultimately falls upon, the USA has an annoying habit of escalating conflicts around the world that it doesn't bother to finish, only to then act surprised when the mess of destabilization and violence that they have left in their wake comes back to cause bigger problems later on. I just hope that my own country doesn't needlessly get dragged into this nonsense.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

I don't fault anyone for not knowing him by name, since that's really not a name that your average, everyday citizen would be aware of. My point's more-so directed towards all the people defending him right now, which is just fucking laughable because even the Goddamned motherfucking U.N. had labeled him as a terrorist and enforced a travel ban and an asset freeze against him.

Not even the U.N. liked him. Everyone knew he was a fucking terrorist.

Iran Quds chief visited Russia despite U.N. travel ban: Iran official

The head of Iran's elite military Quds Force, who is subject to a United Nations travel ban, has met senior Russian officials in Moscow, an Iranian official said on Friday.

www.reuters.com

And yet the bleeding heart SJW twitbags support him.

I wouldn't be surprised if they still ried to support him if they went after another embassy and that country took him out instead of the US.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

This is funny

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“When #WorldWarIII is about to kick off but the criminal record the state unfairly gave you over a joke makes you ineligible for military service.”

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[Randall Fragg]

Let's get this thread back on topic.
Are we actually going to start world war 3, or is this a big nothingburger.

 

[LocalFireDept]

Let's get this thread back on topic.
Are we actually going to start world war 3, or is this a big nothingburger.

Today: US blows up sandman general
Tomorrow: Sandmen get new general, blow something up and burn US flag
Same as the past 15 years, same as the next.

 

[School of Fish]

Let's get this thread back on topic.
Are we actually going to start world war 3, or is this a big nothingburger.

Probably a nothing burger. I mean while 9/11 was the thing that kick started the War on Terroism, that didn't start World War 3 either.

Besides, while I do expect Iran to get really salty over this, it's not like they will be dumb enough to declare war on the U.S.

For crying out loud, this sorry excuse of a naval ship is one of the submarines that they use.

 

[not william stenchever]

Let's get this thread back on topic.
Are we actually going to start world war 3, or is this a big nothingburger.

I suspect that the Iranian leadership don't think the Madhi will rise out of well for them on this one. I pray I'm not wrong because they may well do something very stupid. If it escalates I don't think it will be WWIII but there would be a lot of suck put upon a lot of people in the event of war.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

Let's get this thread back on topic.
Are we actually going to start world war 3, or is this a big nothingburger.

Short answer: No

Longer answer: Fuck No

Probably a nothing burger. I mean while 9/11 was the thing that kick started the War on Terroism, that didn't start World War 3 either.

Besides, while I do expect Iran to get really salty over this, it's not like they will be dumb enough to declare war on the U.S.

For crying out loud, this sorry excuse of a naval ship is one of the submarines that they use.

You want to know the best part about that minisub? It was made by military development extraordinaire North fucking Korea

 

[Shield Breaker]

Let's get this thread back on topic.
Are we actually going to start world war 3, or is this a big nothingburger.

Shouldn't Iran be happy we gave him all of those virgins?