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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[Noideawhattopick]

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Better question. How'd the know it was him? they could've just made up some shit. Have him live in legend strangling American diplomats from the Shadows.

There is a photo of his ripped off hand with a specific ring on one finger. Next to that photo is an old photo of him wearing that same ring.

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[Franjevina]

It was VERY specific ring

 

[WutangLee]

There is a photo of his ripped off hand with a specific ring on one finger. Next to that photo is an old photo of him wearing that same ring.

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Oh damn. Should've done a SOF raid. Could've taken that ring as a nice trophy.

 

[Basil II]

Look up "hijab", "niqab", and "burqa". The hijab isn't inhumane nor oppressive of women (Like the niqab and burqa which are worn almost exclusively in Saudi Arabia, not Iran).

Personally I don't like forcing them to wear anything.

The hijab was the traditional dress of Iranian women. Imagine the US gov't banning bluejeans. Iran today requires women to wear hijabs in public, but they are very lax with enforcement. Women often just wear them loosely as a sort of compromise between traditional Iranian customs and fashion. It's no where near as bad as Saudi Arabia.

Nothing about Islam is traditional to Iran, it's a foreign religion imposed by Invaders.

I don't get trying to make Americans apologetic to a country that just attacked them. This is like weeb shilling for Japan right after Pearl harbor.

 

[not william stenchever]

It's remarkable how much difference it makes when a hellfire missile is lobbed at an actual confirmed major hostile actor instead of a fucking wedding attended by a few scrub-tier terrorists. The fucking balls on this guy though, to be anywhere near his shenanigans when they went live. Motherfucker wanted no plausible deniability to boost his own profile back home and Trump grabbed him by that bravado, turned him around, and fucked him in the ass.

 

[Stoneheart]

You call them "idiots", and the tax payers would call it a "gross, nepotistic and negligent embarrassing waste of money". Chrysler Defense (now General Dynamics Land Systems) would call it "job security"

It was even worse, the move was made to spite the german partners for some fallout over a joint development that didnt worked.
the M1 could have had the far superior Diesel and the far superior Gun from the leopard 2.

If you'd stop driving that couple miles at 100MPH shooting the main gun at everything in sight and running over entire highways of vehicles while feathering the throttle to play the guitar riffs for "Highway to Hell", maybe the fucking engine would last longer!

Im not sure if lower speeds help since the engine runs pretty hot in all situations. But its a bit more silent than a mighty Diesel, in full speed.

 

[Jeremy Corbyn]

Who takes them seriously?

They're a glorified Amnesty-style charity at this point

 

[Stoneheart]

Better question. How'd the know it was him? they could've just made up some shit. Have him live in legend strangling American diplomats from the Shadows.

Thats not a Picture of him. thats a Screenshot from star war episode 3.



I also dont get the people on Twitter. he wasnt the most important leader ever Assasinated by the US. That was Admiral Marshal Yamamoto of Japan.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

I wholeheartedly approve of this yeeting of random grubby Iranians and their ball washers.

That thing looks like it’s barely more advanced than the Japanese midget subs. I wonder if they have explosives in the nose so they can get their 72 mermaid virgins.

Edit: I just realized I saw that paint job somewhere. The Best Koreans might have sold it to them.

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Settle down children, time for a story.

Long, long ago some 56 years ago Josef Tito looked upon the Adriatic and went "we need shit to plant mines yo" and thus his slavic scientists tinkered away and within a year they created the Heroj Class Submarine.

"Sick moves bro." Said Tito on seeing the plans "Let's have like, 3 of them."

A year into being built, a tiny midget of a Korean wanted a huge submarine to compensate for his microscoping dong and saw the Heroj as huge.

So Tito sold them the plans in 1965.

The North Koreans, with their tiny penisis stamped out 8 of these piles of dogshit. In the process of their service they lost three of the damn things. One in 1998 when the South Koreans caught one trying to sneak about with its clattering diesel engine. Another two would just sink without a trace god knows when, with the North Koreans admitting to it in 2016.

Oh, and to pay down their debts with Iranian Mullahs in 2007 (also with tiny dongs) they gave them four of these death boats which they proudly show off at every opportunity.

Why? Because the Iranians liked the Yugoslavian design oh so much they stamped out twenty three of these fucking things and called them the Ghadir Class. They love boasting that their 1960s derived hulls somehow pack all the modern tech in the world and can totally go toe to toe with "equivalents" forgetting that most military powers gave up on mini subs some time in the 1980s.

 

[mr.moon1488]

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Better question. How'd the know it was him? they could've just made up some shit. Have him live in legend strangling American diplomats from the Shadows.

You normally take DNA samples of dead, or suspected dead high valued targets. You'd normally, also put them in the hide/seek system, but I don't really think that's an option here.

 

[WutangLee]

I wholeheartedly approve of this yeeting of random grubby Iranians and their ball washers.




Settle down children, time for a story.

Long, long ago some 56 years ago Josef Tito looked upon the Adriatic and went "we need shit to plant mines yo" and thus his slavic scientists tinkered away and within a year they created the Heroj Class Submarine.

"Sick moves bro." Said Tito on seeing the plans "Let's have like, 3 of them."

A year into being built, a tiny midget of a Korean wanted a huge submarine to compensate for his microscoping dong and saw the Heroj as huge.

So Tito sold them the plans in 1965.

The North Koreans, with their tiny penisis stamped out 8 of these piles of dogshit. In the process of their service they lost three of the damn things. One in 1998 when the South Koreans caught one trying to sneak about with its clattering diesel engine. Another two would just sink without a trace god knows when, with the North Koreans admitting to it in 2016.

Oh, and to pay down their debts with Iranian Mullahs in 2007 (also with tiny dongs) they gave them four of these death boats which they proudly show off at every opportunity.

Why? Because the Iranians liked the Yugoslavian design oh so much they stamped out twenty three of these fucking things and called them the Ghadir Class. They love boasting that their 1960s derived hulls somehow pack all the modern tech in the world and can totally go toe to toe with "equivalents" forgetting that most military powers gave up on mini subs some time in the 1980s.

Damn, and I though them cannibalizing and Frankenstineining the F4's was a story worthy of a documentary.

 

[Adamska]

Look up "hijab", "niqab", and "burqa". The hijab isn't inhumane nor oppressive of women (Like the niqab and burqa which are worn almost exclusively in Saudi Arabia, not Iran). The hijab was the traditional dress of Iranian women. Imagine the US gov't banning bluejeans. Iran today requires women to wear hijabs in public, but they are very lax with enforcement.

Translation: I am an Iranian Asset angry that my masters can't do shit even against shitty old hellfire missiles. I am advocating for the religion of peace and strawmanning hard by equating an anti-rape device (since Islam determines these guys to be incapable of not raping women if they see hair) with a piece of clothing what started life as sailors and factory worker pants.

We agree then. Don't back countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel who are funding those bombings and wars. Iran is a moderating influence on the Middle East. They protect Christians and combat the radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism because Wahhabis kill Shia, Christians, Yazidis, Sufis, and even other Wahhabis.

Are you a butthurt Israeli?

Translation: I am angry and believe that Jewish people are more successful than I am and want said succes. I also am an Iranian Asset that blithely ignores that Iran actually funds just as many terrorist cells as Wahhabism has created.

First of all, I'm not Israeli. If that is the basis of you defending these types of countries then take a fucking speech class or something.

Second, citation needed. For all I know those 'stats' are probably what you pulled out of your ass using Microsoft Excel. Link me to something such as actual and credible news reports and government reports, not whatever you found on fucking Stormfront.

Thirdly:

My experience with /pol/ is most of them aren't even white anyway.

Probably because none of these were strikes at Iran as a whole--just the Mullahs--his poll numbers aren't tanking and he's having no trouble setting the stage for re-election. It's really not much of a comparison. These are very specific, very high-priority targets that have been on the world's shit-list for more than a decade. What was the alternative option? Allow these terrorist organizers to walk away consequence-free from a premeditated attack on a U.S. embassy?

Iran knew exactly what it was doing by staging that attack. What Iran didn't expect was that in response, America would immediately leap straight over an old-school "boots on the ground" approach and instead choose to specifically target their leadership. What Iran did to our embassy easily qualifies as a declaration of war. Instead of a war, America just mangled their generals.

I'm a much bigger fan of this approach instead of mounting some sort of post-9/11 Clusterfuck 2.0.

I mean, if we refuse to actively put the needed men on the ground and we can just plain yeet everything with air strikes and drones, why fucking bother with putting feet on the ground?

I think Trump knows how the media will be a 5th column for any war, and has noticed that boots on the ground haven't worked because the US' counter-insurgency methods are shit and won't get better.

-furiously masturbating over doomsaying shit-

-masturbating over fearmongering-

Fuck off Doomers, if you want this sensation, why not do some service overseas?

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Damn, and I though them cannibalizing and Frankenstineining the F4's was a story worthy of a documentary.

Pretty much anything the Iranians do is documentary worthy.

Their newest MBT, the Karrar is some frankensteinian nonsense on a T-72 chassis that will totally be able to go toe-to-toe with the M1 and Challenger 2 tanks despite being made up of tech derived from the export T-72, the M-60, M48, Chieftan and (supposedly) bits of M1, but more likely what they learned from welding random bits of steel to the Zulfiqar to make them look a bit like the M1 Abrams.

 

[qu_rahn]

Fuck off Doomers, if you want this sensation, why not do some service overseas?

Tfw you sign up to kill terrorists and end up scanning ID cards at the gate for 4 years in Oklahoma

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

You squeal like a newborn babe. Show me one aspect of US foreign policy that has led to success for the average American since the 90's. I'm all ears. No more cries for tard cum please.

That depends on what you consider to be an "aspect of US foreign policy". I want you to personally define that for me, since I know you'll try to change it in the future to move the goalposts.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Thats not a Picture of him. thats a Screenshot from star war episode 3.
I also dont get the people on Twitter. he wasnt the most important leader ever Assasinated by the US. That was Admiral Marshal Yamamoto of Japan.

Thats not a Picture of him. thats a Screenshot from star war episode 3.



I also dont get the people on Twitter. he wasnt the most important leader ever Assasinated by the US. That was Admiral Marshal Yamamoto of Japan.

He should’ve known Trump had the high ground.

I agree that Yamamoto was the most important American assassination. I do wonder if Qassem will end up in as many films as Yamamoto.

 

[AnotherPleb]

It’s only the third day of the new year, and Twitter is full of psychopaths who think we just assassinated a dude at random and who apparently have no idea that it’s retribution for an attack on our embassy.
...I don’t even think they have a concept for responding to attacks on embassies.

Well, they sure didn't learn how to do it from the Benghazi response.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Russia Today livestreaming his funeral.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

He wasnt the most important leader ever Assasinated by the US. That was Admiral Marshal Yamamoto of Japan.

I agree that Yamamoto was the most important American assassination. I do wonder if Qassem will end up in as many films as Yamamoto.

Yamamoto wasn't assassinated; he was the highest ranking individual officer ever directly targeted militarily (that we know of), and had a defensive escort. That we developed the attack in secrecy & with broken codes, and the Japs caught completely by surprise, doesn't make it an assassination.

The same goes for that Iranian fuck. He was a legit military target, and they've pledged themselves as being at war with us for decades; so act of war it was.

 

[It's HK-47]

Don't attack the embassy and make plans to attack U.S. targets next time, dipshit. The entirety of the Iranian government is like that one fat kid in everyone's friend group who says that his mom told him that he was allowed to have all the super powers and win every single fight and even if you hit him it's only because you "weren't playing fair."

They're just mad because our new foreign policy is, "We're America, bitch."