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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[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

'Attacks against Black and Brown people': Kaepernick slams 'terrorist' America after Soleimani killing

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick accused the United States of terrorism after the deaths of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Mahdi al Muhandis.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

'Attacks against Black and Brown people': Kaepernick slams 'terrorist' America after Soleimani killing

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick accused the United States of terrorism after the deaths of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Mahdi al Muhandis.


"There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism," tweeted the Nike partner.

Kaepernick has been the source of much controversy after being dropped from NFL rosters for kneeling during the national anthem at football games.

"America has always sanctioned and besieged Black and Brown bodies both at home and abroad. America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, to enforce its policing and plundering of the non white world," he said.

Kaepernick signed a lucrative deal with Nike, who produced a shoe with his likeness. In July, he successfully lobbied Nike to remove a Betsy Ross flag shoe after he said it was racist.

Kaepernick should be strapped to the first cruise missile en route to Tehran

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

doesnt that show that trump posts on tiwtter on an iphone?

I pretty sure Trump doesn't even use an iPhone.

 

[zap2theextreme]

Explain to me how this justifies the murder of US citizens.

Don't beat around the bush, you fucking coward. Tell me why this means terrorists ought to be allowed to commit murder without reprisal, because that and nothing less is what you're arguing. Come out in the open and say these words where everyone can hear them; 'I believe it's alright to torture, massacre and terrorize innocent civilians on purpose. Provided those civilians happened to be born in a country that once committed what I deem as crimes against the people attacking them.'

Do it, faggot. Or shut up.

Murder of what innocent US citizens? You mean the supposed military contractor that died in the embassy yet we've not gotten their name, who they work for, or confirmation that they even exist? Do you mean innocent US citizens by soldiers in a war zone? US soldiers are military combatants and foreign occupying ones at that. They shouldn't even be there considering the whole premise for the Iraq war has been proven to be a complete lie.

You people must have worms in your brains or something and refuse to acknowledge that this is occurring within the framework of a global war on terror that has reigned for decades and decimated the Iraqi people. I don't even know what "terrorists" you're talking about here honestly. The embassy was stormed by Iraqi protestors upset that US just deliberately turned a convoy of the their fighters, who ostensibly are supposed to be our allies, into paste while they were out there fighting ISIS, the fucking Islamic death cult that America has cultivated by destabilizing their country with this dumb fucking war.

As for massacring, terrorizing, and torturing innocent civilians are you sure you're not talking about America here? You realize that America had a secret torture program right? One that we've extensively used throughout the Iraq war? You know that Guantanamo bay exists right? That people in congress wanted to bring Bush up on war crime charges for this shit but was stopped by Nancy Pelosi because she knew about it and was implicated in keeping it secret?

I honestly think you completely misread my post and need to brush up on your reading comprehension

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

I don't believe they do. They have just been indoctrinated to hate Trump so much, they would honestly see half of the US dead, if it meant they could act all smug on Twitter.

That having been said, the neoconservatives and rabid Trump supporters are finally finding some common ground...in another useless Middle East war.

What Trump should do is actually get out of the Middle East all together, we have little legitimate business over there, but I don't think he will...the deep state really wants this war.

That hardly explains Hanoi Jane or any of the other mummies' conduct in the last 4 decades, does it? It's basically down to the fact that communism is viral (and always has been) in Hollywood. The Senator from Wisconsin was 100% correct, and should have been extended powers of extrajudicial execution.

Murder of what innocent US citizens? You mean the supposed military contractor that died in the embassy yet we've not gotten their name, who they work for, or confirmation that they even exist? Do you mean innocent US citizens by soldiers in a war zone? US soldiers are military combatants and foreign occupying ones at that. They shouldn't even be there considering the whole premise for the Iraq war has been proven to be a complete lie.

You people must have worms in your brains or something and refuse to acknowledge that this is occurring within the framework of a global war on terror that has reigned for decades and decimated the Iraqi people. I don't even know what "terrorists" you're talking about here honestly. The embassy was stormed by Iraqi protestors upset that US just deliberately turned a convoy of the their fighters, who ostensibly are supposed to be our allies, into paste while they were out there fighting ISIS, the fucking Islamic death cult that America has cultivated by destabilizing their country with this dumb fucking war.

As for massacring, terrorizing, and torturing innocent civilians are you sure you're not talking about America here? You realize that America had a secret torture program right? One that we've extensively used throughout the Iraq war? You know that Guantanamo bay exists right? That people in congress wanted to bring Bush up on war crime charges for this shit but was stopped by Nancy Pelosi because she knew about it and was implicated in keeping it secret?

I honestly think you completely misread my post and need to brush up on your reading comprehension

^^ and as for YOU, Comrade, does your "shouldn't even have been there.." also extend to the terrorist scumbag Iranian General who was for some reason in Baghdad?

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Murder of what innocent US citizens? You mean the supposed military contractor that died in the embassy yet we've not gotten their name, who they work for, or confirmation that they even exist? Do you mean innocent US citizens by soldiers in a war zone? US soldiers are military combatants and foreign occupying ones at that. They shouldn't even be there considering the whole premise for the Iraq war has been proven to be a complete lie.

You people must have worms in your brains or something and refuse to acknowledge that this is occurring within the framework of a global war on terror that has reigned for decades and decimated the Iraqi people. I don't even know what "terrorists" you're talking about here honestly. The embassy was stormed by Iraqi protestors upset that US just deliberately turned a convoy of the their fighters, who ostensibly are supposed to be our allies, into paste while they were out there fighting ISIS, the fucking Islamic death cult that America has cultivated by destabilizing their country with this dumb fucking war.

As for massacring, terrorizing, and torturing innocent civilians are you sure you're not talking about America here? You realize that America had a secret torture program right? One that we've extensively used throughout the Iraq war? You know that Guantanamo bay exists right? That people in congress wanted to bring Bush up on war crime charges for this shit but was stopped by Nancy Pelosi because she knew about it and was implicated in keeping it secret?

I honestly think you completely misread my post and need to brush up on your reading comprehension

Your autistic REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEings about how the big bad US are bullying the dindu nuffin Iraqis are getting seriously old.

I really don't care how US army members tickled your ass when you were young, but this statement?:

"The embassy was stormed by Iraqi protestors upset that US just deliberately turned a convoy of the their fighters, who ostensibly are supposed to be our allies, into paste while they were out there fighting ISIS..."

It's bullshit based on nothing but your assmad whinging.

 

[zap2theextreme]

It's getting old because I have to keep reiterating it as you won't refute it

you small brained simp

 

[Sanshain]

You people must have worms in your brains

Pot calls kettle black: more at 11.

You act like you've provided a single piece of compelling evidence for any of your claims. You talk complete and utter nonsense, and all your points are absolute clear-cut cases of correlation equaling causation. How the fuck are a few terrorists detained in Guantanamo Bay, regardless of how badly they're treated equivocal to the thousands of innocent civilians Iran and Iranian-backed terrorist organisations have wantonly slaughtered in both the middle-east and other countries? You're making excuses for literal mass-murderers.

The sad thing is that I might actually agree with some of your concepts if you presented them better. But you don't. Your arguments are dreadful, and you change the goalposts every single time somebody brings up a counter-point to them.

Again, nut up or shut up. Say you support state-sponsored terrorism if it kills civilians who didn't support the 'correct' regime, because that's what you're arguing for.

 

[Superman93]

Your autistic REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEings about how the big bad US are bullying the dindu nuffin Iraqis are getting seriously old.

I really don't care how US army members tickled your ass when you were young, but this statement?:

"The embassy was stormed by Iraqi protestors upset that US just deliberately turned a convoy of the their fighters, who ostensibly are supposed to be our allies, into paste while they were out there fighting ISIS..."

It's bullshit based on nothing but your assmad whinging.

It's getting old because I have to keep reiterating it as you won't refute it

you small brained simp

Ya know he's not entirely wrong and you aren't refuting anything either

Pot calls kettle black: more at 11.

You act like you've provided a single piece of compelling evidence for any of your claims. Y

Neither have you lol

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

It's getting old because I have to keep reiterating it as you won't refute it

you small brained simp

That would imply that you ever once made a real point based on actual evidence in this thread.

You haven't, and you don't seem smart enough to do so anyway.

Ya know he's not entirely wrong and you aren't refuting anything either

I'm sure you can bring up whatever evidence he showed in his "not entirely wrong" post.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

Seems CBP is ramping up some justice on iranians already. Would be awesome to see ICE start arresting and deporting illegal Iranians / Iranian students for deportation on a priority basis, and watching the leftists go Scanners.

 

[theshep]

Rockets were launched at the US Embassy in Baghdad for the second night in a row

• Multiple rockets landed near the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday evening, marking the second such attack in the last day.
• Police told multiple outlets that six people were wounded as three rockets landed in the city’s heavily secured Green Zone and three others nearby.
• US entities in the country have been increasingly under fire in recent weeks, and the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military official, by US forces triggered fiery responses from Iraq and Iran.
• Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

Multiple rockets landed near the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, according to numerous reports.

Of six rockets that fell in Baghdad, three struck the city’s heavily secured Green Zone and three in a nearby area, Al Jazeera reported.

Police told the outlet that at least six people had been wounded in the attacks, which employed Katyusha rockets.

It was the second such attack in the last few days after two rockets previously landed in the Green Zone, which contains the country’s parliament, government offices, and foreign embassies, on Saturday.

The strike comes at a tense time in US-Iraqi relations and is the latest of 14 times in the last two months that US entities in the country have been targeted.

The Daily Mail reported that Sunday’s strike came after violent pro-Iran faction Kataeb Hezbollah warned Iraqi security forces to get away from US troops at bases across the country by 5 p.m. local time.

Last week, US authorities condemned attacks like a violent siege at the embassy and a December 27 rocket attack that killed an America military contractor near Kirkuk, Iraq. The White House connected both attacks to Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military official, before he was killed under orders from President Donald Trump.

The US shocked the region when a successful airstrike killed Soleimani at the Baghdad airport on January 3, triggering fiery responses from Iraq and Iran that appeared to be an escalation in tensions with the US.


American lawmakers and officials bat down concerns over security threats to the US in the wake of the attack after Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for Americans in the wake of Soleimani’s killing.

Read more:

Troops in Iraq have been reassigned from fighting ISIS to protecting US assets amid Iran conflict

The United States’ main allies are abandoning Trump over his ‘dangerous escalation’ with Iran

Trump just had a top Iranian general killed, and it’s triggering an intense debate over whether the strike is legally justified

This map shows where US-Iran tensions have flared in Iraq, which culminated in the strike killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani

Rockets were launched at the US Embassy in Baghdad for the second night in a row

Multiple rockets landed near the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, according to numerous reports.

www.businessinsider.com.au

 

[Extremist Frank]

Murder of what innocent US citizens? You mean the supposed military contractor that died in the embassy yet we've not gotten their name, who they work for, or confirmation that they even exist? Do you mean innocent US citizens by soldiers in a war zone? US soldiers are military combatants and foreign occupying ones at that. They shouldn't even be there considering the whole premise for the Iraq war has been proven to be a complete lie.

You people must have worms in your brains or something and refuse to acknowledge that this is occurring within the framework of a global war on terror that has reigned for decades and decimated the Iraqi people. I don't even know what "terrorists" you're talking about here honestly. The embassy was stormed by Iraqi protestors upset that US just deliberately turned a convoy of the their fighters, who ostensibly are supposed to be our allies, into paste while they were out there fighting ISIS, the fucking Islamic death cult that America has cultivated by destabilizing their country with this dumb fucking war.

1) Kata'ib Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militias spend months launching rockets at US forces in Iraq
2) The latest 30 rocket salvo kills a US contractor and injures US and Iraqi servicemen
3) The US responds by bombing Kata'ib Hezbollah bases, killing 25 and injuring another 50
4) Kata'ib Hezbollah responds by raiding the US Embassy in Baghdad. Since I'm sure you'll make a pathetic "proof??" response, the pic below captures protestors outside the US Embassy in Baghdad. There are at least 7 Kata'ib Hezbollah flags, I've circled them in teal.

5) US launches a strategic strike that kills Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian mastermind that funds, trains, and equips Iraq's Iranian-backed Shiite militias, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi-Iranian dual citizen who is the commander of Kata'ib Hezbollah, deputy commander of Iraq's PMFs, and a former member of the IRGC who participated in embassy bombings around the world.

Its usually a better idea to stay quiet and only appear to be stupid instead of opening your mouth and coming across as an ignorant and uninformed asshole.

 

[Nobunaga]

LOL, as if Iran was ever abiding by the deal to begin with.

Whats next, are you telling me israel has nukes and is willing to take everyone they can with them if they ever feel like they are fucked

 

[zap2theextreme]

I literally don't give a shit about hamas or hezbollah. Any resistance to the disgustly tyrannical and insanely fascist Zionist Government of Israel is welcome.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Ya know he's not entirely wrong and you aren't refuting anything either

Neither have you lol

It doesn't matter if they have a good point or not. This isn't reddit and bitch needs to calm their tits.

 

[Kornheiser]

I wonder how /pol/ is handling the situation?

 

[Sanshain]

I literally don't give a shit about hamas or hezbollah. Any resistance to the disgustly tyrannical and insanely fascist Zionist Government of Israel is welcome.

NO BAD TACTICS

ONLY BAD TARGETS

guys i think we may have actually for real found MovieBob's account on the farms

 

[OnMoTi]

NO BAD TACTICS

ONLY BAD TARGETS

guys i think we may have actually for real found MovieBob's account on the farms

The post didn't blame white conservatives. It's not him.

 

[Adamska]

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Yes, thank you local NYT journalist, but how exactly would an IRGC Commander know something like this, and how exactly does this sniveling sort of approach that they're alleging fit into the whole "We just blew your heroes into tiny pieces" strategy that was literally just employed? I'm sure that the terrorists would absolutely love to have us believe that the U.S. is flinching and begging Iran not to retaliate, but did it ever occur to you that your sources have a vested interest in lying to you?

I won't even address that hashtag because I want to preserve at least some of my fucking brain cells. You are two seconds away from openly rooting for a terrorist regime and in the same breath you probably wonder why we've taken to calling you the "enemy of the people."

The NY Times has been an asset of Iran for a good while (seriously, if you compare what they write to an Iranian paper on the country itself, they're very similar in tone), so it's not shocking that they want to desperately martyr this terrorist who got bitch killed while Trump ate ice cream.

Also loving the panic mongers and the Chinese asset guy; the latter needs to try and explain how those dams totally didn't contribute to killing off their dolphins and is rapidly killing off their crocs too.

 

[zap2theextreme]

NO BAD TACTICS

ONLY BAD TARGETS

guys i think we may have actually for real found MovieBob's account on the farms

I also don't give a shit about American soldiers getting shot or bombed in a war zone they don't belong in while operating on a phony basis of combating terror for peace. Especially not when there's a tactical strike to kill a millitary leader of soverign nation like that's supposed to make us safer. Only a moron would think assassinating a military leader is a peaceful de-escalation or prevention of conflict. No doubt Iran will launch into some type of asymmetric warfare. Iranians are already supposedly being detained entering the country and the LAPD was tweeting about being on alert for terror plots or some other insanely retarded shit. good job trump