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]

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 exceptional shit. good job trump

lol Iran aint gon do shit lets be real about this.

 

[pipcome]

Worth remembering the two faced leftwing shits who spread "muh ww3" crap.
In a couple of weeks or a month from now you wont hear anything about it anymore and the vapid leftwing propaganda cattle will hope you have forgotten same as with all their other lies they KNOW to be lies but spread as anti trump crap anyway.(kava, impeach, europe ww3, nk ww3, china ww3, collusion, ukraine, iran ww3 etc)
But i will remember and so should you, their accounts, names, posts, avatars, media, celebrities, reporters etc every time they open their mouths they should be reminded (take your pick lol) make clear their uninformed opinions and half truths on politics are worthless because they made it so.

 

[Tookie]

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.

Yes, we should deport the handful of Iranian college kids who have jumped through extremely steep hoops to get US visas and escape the death cult running their country to OwN tHe LiBtArDs.

The State Department doesn't even process spousal visas for Iranians since the travel ban kicked in and we don't import refugees from there. The only Iranians here are here because they want to be and hate the mullahs.

 

[Superman93]

Worth remembering the two faced leftwing shits who spread "muh ww3" crap.
In a couple of weeks or a month from now you wont hear anything about it anymore and the literal dogshit for brains left wingers will hope you have forgotten same as with all their other lies they KNOW to be lies but spread as anti trump crap anyway.(kava, impeach, nk, ukraine, collusion etc)
But i will remember and so should you, their accounts, names, posts, media, celebrities, reporters etc shit on these two faced lying morons everytime they open their mouths, ridicule them and make clear their uninformed opinions on politics are worthless because they made it so.

lmao take it easy tard

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

Yes, we should deport the handful of Iranian college kids who have jumped through extremely steep hoops to get US visas and escape the death cult running their country to OwN tHe LiBtArDs.

You've made me see the error of my ways. All those you speak of should enlist IMMEDIATELY in the US Army, in combat trades, and go fight the theocratic monsterstate of Iran.

 

[Sanshain]

Only a moron would think assassinating a military leader is a peaceful de-escalation or prevention of conflict.

Name one person who has legitimately claimed this is a 'de-escalation' or 'prevention of conflict'. This is nothing of the sort. This is calling Iran's bluff. We've tried de-escalation, and they've taken advantage of it every time. Shamelessly. This is kid-gloves off the big boys are talking stuff now. If they want to scream and flail and demonstrate how pathetically dedicated to being the aggressors they really are, good. It means they lose even the most tentative film of legitimacy they usually try and hide behind, and they can finally be decapitated without any of the bureaucratic nonsense and political wrangling that has dogged efforts to actually defend America for the last few decades.

I simply do not understand why you fail to comprehend that if you kill the members of another country on its own soil, you've committed an act of war. America should be praised for restraining itself to a single missile, instead of the full-scale aerial and naval bombardment of Iran that would be entirely justified from any sane historical perspective.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Eh, might be mistaken for MotI rather than shit-stirring.

So, honest bit: With Iran putting a bounty on Trump's head, what does that basically tell the rest of the world? So far this has been pretty bad on the Iranian side, with them being made to look like chumps the whole way. It's making the Dem's look bad, because they're just outright blatantly sucking Iran's cock for the whole world to see.

5D Chess or Trump just taking advantage of chaos, which seems to be his natural element?

 

[Adamska]

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.

Iranian asset who creams pants over civvie deaths but is too bitchmade to admit it with a statement is angry and jealous that the Jews have a higher quality of life than they do, even with that fucktard Netanyahu fucking it up horrendously.

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 exceptional shit. good job trump

Retarded asset tries to equate a terrorist and spy (since his visit counts as espionage given his goals and communes with a fucking Hezbollah leader) getting yeeted by old cold war tech to a political assassination. Still too intentionally dense to acknowledge embassies as territories of the countries they're for.

Doesn't get Trump will yeet more of his masters if they choose to prove how sociopathic and pathetic they are. Begs us to feel pity for the faggots who revived an 800+ year decline in a once glorious country, as this is the best that Iran can do; sub-4chan tier cyber shit.

 

[MrTickles]

Iraqi PM claims Us and Saudis invited the general to Baghdad for talks (which explains why he came announced in a civilian airliner) then killed him. That's beyond asinine. Never again will anybody put any stock in US diplomacy. Furthermore enjoy containing your new occupation of and civil war in Iraq.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

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 exceptional shit. good job trump

Niggers like you are a perfect illustration of why the Tuskeegee experiments should have gone national.

 

[Adamska]

Iraqi PM claims Us and Saudis invited the general to Baghdad for talks (which explains why he came announced in a civilian airliner) then killed him. That's beyond asinine. Never again will anybody put any stock in US diplomacy. Furthermore enjoy containing your new occupation of and civil war in Iraq.

You need to worry more about your masters' shaky economy propped up by cooking the books and autistically building empty buildings finally collapsing due to a loss in confidence dude; them fiddy cents a post might dry up within the next couple of years.

 

[soy_king]

Iraqi PM claims Us and Saudis invited the general to Baghdad for talks (which explains why he came announced in a civilian airliner) then killed him. That's beyond asinine. Never again will anybody put any stock in US diplomacy. Furthermore enjoy containing your new occupation of and civil war in Iraq.

You are aware this Prime Minister of Iraq resigned because Iraqi Shia protesters deemed he was too chummy with Iran, right? How exactly can you take anti-US screeds from a guy like that seriously and not as pro-Iranian propaganda?

Oh wait, I forgot you're a Fifty cent Army CCP shill. Never mind, proceed.

EDIT: For any of you faggots potentially demanding proof. And no, we weren't involved with the attack on the Iranian consulate, so this isn't justified tit-for-tat bullshit
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...day-prompted-iraqi-leaders-exit-idUSKBN1YK1QI

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

No doubt Iran will launch into some type of asymmetric warfare

Launch? As if they haven't been doing that shit for decades.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

Iraqi PM claims Us and Saudis invited the general to Baghdad for talks (which explains why he came announced in a civilian airliner) then killed him. That's beyond asinine. Never again will anybody put any stock in US diplomacy. Furthermore enjoy containing your new occupation of and civil war in Iraq.

That would be insanely funny considering how much money in SIGINT and HUMINT typically goes into a F3EAD cycle. I'm thinking there would be a lot less waterboarding, drone time, and paying informants if *just* inviting them to a vacant area of airfield worked.

Hell, if that's how Soleimani got taken, he deserves a Darwin award.

EDIT: Not to mention I think he's been on KSA's kill list longer than the US's.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

I like how threads on Middle Eastern happenings bring out all kinds of spergs.

Truly, the Middle East is the battleground of empires.

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.

First American soldiers bootytickled you, now it's the Jews (may Allah curse them) bootytickling you from their "fascist" nation that allows for free elections.

 

[MrTickles]

Not willing to miss a beat, A Russian aircraft straight from Moscow is about to land in Baghdad. Putin? Somebody's gotta feast on the US fuck up.

You are aware this Prime Minister of Iraq resigned because Iraqi Shia protesters deemed he was too chummy with Iran, right? How exactly can you take anti-US screeds from a guy like that seriously and not as pro-Iranian propaganda?

Oh wait, I forgot you're a Fifty cent Army CCP shill. Never mind, proceed.

EDIT: For any of you faggots potentially demanding proof. And no, we weren't involved with the attack on the Iranian consulate, so this isn't justified tit-for-tat bullshit
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...day-prompted-iraqi-leaders-exit-idUSKBN1YK1QI

The vote passed by 10 votes. Meaning that even if the iraqi kurds (idiots at this point, imagine still trusting the US to stand beside you) were there, it would have passed. Despite Shia being demographically underrepresented in the parliament because of confessional bullshit, they still wrangled enough Sunni votes to pull it off.

What happened, do we decide democratic mandates by minority opinion now? Iraq is majority Shiite and the majority have spoken under a system set up by the US itself.

What Trump achieved with the killing of Iran's top general:

Unify all factions in Iran, stabilize the country.

Garner massive international support for Iran.

Kick-start Iran's nuclear program like Bush Jnr did regarding North Korea.

Alienate the US from all regional factions outside of Israel and the KSA.

Restart the US-Iraq war OR if US actually does leave, hand Iraq over to Iran on a silver platter. Trillions or loss of 30 million shiites to Iran. Choose.

And the fuck up list will continue to grow...

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

First American soldiers bootytickled you, now it's the Jews (may Allah curse them) bootytickling you from their "fascist" nation that allows for free elections.

The biggest thing Tards can agree on..no matter if they are Lefties or Righties is that the "JOOOOOOOOOZEEEEEEE" are somehow the cause of everything bad in the world.

 

[OnMoTi]

The biggest thing Tards intelligent people can agree on..no matter if they are Lefties or Righties is that the "JOOOOOOOOOZEEEEEEE" are somehow the cause of everything bad in the world.

Not everything.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Not everything.

Bullshit

"I stubbed my Toe on a stair?" THE JEWS MUSTA BUILD IT

"No Fatties Will let me stick my dick in their ass" "THE JEWS STOLE HER."

"I cooked my cum flavored ramen to long?" "THE JEWS INVENTED MICROWAVES!"

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Not willing to miss a beat, A Russian aircraft straight from Moscow is about to land in Baghdad. Putin? Somebody's gotta feast on the US fuck up.

Garner massive international support for Iran.

Iran went crying to the UN only for Russia to tell them to fuck off.

Holy shit you can't be this delusional.

What Trump achieved with the killing of Iran's top general:

Unify all factions in Iran, stabilize the country.

Garner massive international support for Iran.

Kick-start Iran's nuclear program like Bush Jnr did regarding North Korea.

Alienate the US from all regional factions outside of Israel and the KSA.

Restart the US-Iraq war.

And the fuck up list will continue to grow...

Nothing but lies and distortions of reality.

The "kick-start Iran's nuclear program" is especially hilarious, as if Iran ever stopped their nuclear program.