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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[Sable]

Desperate to prove his value to his masters, the Iranian Asset continues to waste his time here:

He's not an Iranian Asset!

...

He's shown to be a CHINESE asset, he backs up literally anyone who opposes the US on principle.

In this case he's getting off on the idea of another middle eastern war for the US to get mired in whilst China is fine.

 

[Considered HARMful]

Shotguns were against the rules, Gas wasnt because it wasnt invented when the Rules were made...
The father of Gas warfare got a noble prize for his work....

Well, achktually!
[pedantic dickweedery]
The pre-WW1 Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 contained declarations prohibiting use of poisonous and "asphyxiating" gases. The signatories to these conventions were commiting actual war crimes during the war.

And the Haber guy got the Nobel not for his work on poison gas, but (in great simplification) for synthesizing ammonia for use in fertilizers. His legacy is quite complicated: on one hand you got the chemical warfare, on the other hand staving off mass famine through increased agricultural output.

On the third hand, those fertilizers can be used for some more...explosive purposes. So there.
[/pedantic dickweedery]

 

[MrJokerRager]

Committing 1 War Crime with nearly zero American casualties is somehow worse than many War Crimes and thousands of American Casualties. The whole "Rules of "Respectable" War" is pure bullshit. Germany bitched at us for using fucking shotguns against them....in World War 1....where they both used Chlorine Gas.

Fuck that shit. Killing several innocents is worth over killing THOUSANDS of innocents. War is never fucking clean, but you should always try to keep it clean.

That quote reminds me of this converstation between Tyrion and Tywin after the red wedding.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

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.



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...

Please define "confessional bullshit"

 

[Stoneheart]

Trump should dronestrike the homes of the Bush Family.
Why can Iraq Vote on their Occupation?

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

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!"

Sounds much like the lyrics of this (excellent) song:

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www.youtube.com

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Trump is now threatening to sanction Iraq if they don't pay the US for the bases and keep requesting the US leaves; Doubles down on threat to bomb areas of "cultural significance"

I don't see how this is not becoming a disaster for the US; Iran is pursuing nukes as quick as possible while Iraq's 75% Shia population is jumping into Iran's hands. If there is a silver living here, the US has done wonders in fostering relations between Iran and Iraq, lol.

What on earth are you talking about?

 

[murdered meat bag]

so is the UN and europe doing anything to help deescalate tension or are they just going "America was supposed to all the hard stuff"?

 

[MrTickles]

so is the UN and europe doing anything to help deescalate tension or are they just going "America was supposed to all the hard stuff"?

Apart from Britain and some more requisite pets/puppets, I can't think of another country in Europe that supported the US debacle in Iraq.

Trump is the perfect example of a meme gone wrong. At first he was cute and funny, now he's about to become just another American mass murdering war criminal.

 

[soy_king]

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.



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...

I'm not going to answer all the drivel you wrote because better men than I already have and I don't want to expose myself to CancerAIDS for too long, but your entire style of argument is to interpret a relatively minor move as the complete collapse of Murika and the solidification of the anti-America Voltron. Donald Trump farts in a cabinet meeting= OHMUHGERRD THE US IS COLLAPSING!!! RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE UNLEASHED THEIR HORDES ON WASHINGTON AND IRAN IS ABOUT TO RAPE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY! You really need to pull your head out of the Xi Jinping's ass; I know it's warm and comforting, but everything will taste better if you do.

 

[MrTickles]

I'm not going to answer all the drivel you wrote because better men than I already have and I don't want to expose myself to CancerAIDS for too long, but your entire style of argument is to interpret a relatively minor move as the complete collapse of Murika and the solidification of the anti-America Voltron. Donald Trump farts in a cabinet meeting= OHMUHGERRD THE US IS COLLAPSING!!! RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE UNLEASHED THEIR HORDES ON WASHINGTON AND IRAN IS ABOUT TO RAPE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY! You really need to pull your head out of the Xi Jinping's ass; I know it's warm and comforting, but everything will taste better if you do.

Hyperbole aside, you came real close with the capitalized part. Iran is of course just another sacrificial lamb, but those are needed for America's relative decline to continue.

This is looking to be yet another in a long line of American military failures.
Invades Afghanistan to remove Taliban from power, Taliban win back the country and Americans are on the way out.
Invades Iraq after accusing it (falsely) of being part of "Axis of Evil" (with Iran), yet through gross mismanagement will not only be kicked out, but has ensured Iraq will actually become aligned with Iran. The occupation will have to end eventually.

 

[It's HK-47]

If there is a silver lining here, the US has done wonders in fostering relations between Iran and Iraq, lol.

That's the entire point, isn't it?

North and South Korea are hashing out their own problems largely independent of our help now, the Turks and the Kurds are dealing with their own problems without our input, Mexico is working more closely with the South American countries to deal with immigration issues before it reaches our borders, Russia and Syria are having to figure things out on their own, and now Iran and Iraq are having to push their heads together and figure things out.

Everyone's starting to talk to each other again without needing America looming over their shoulders.

One by one, we're taking off the kick-stands and letting every country get back to handling their own problems. We don't need to be the world police anymore, but we do need to make sure that everyone gets to "save face" so when they come out of these conflicts, they come out looking like they got the upper hand and did it all on their own.

North Korea got to act like it was the voice of reason convincing Trump not to do something psychotic, the Kurds got to prove that they could stand on their own, the Iranians got to give Soleimani a "hero's funeral", etc. If there's one thing that America should have learned from Vietnam and the Middle Eastern wars, it's that you can't "win" by just brutally curb-stomping a country to try and make it submit. All that ever does is bolster their resolve and make them desperate to save face.

Everyone has to come out of this looking like a winner to their own people.

 

[Shield Breaker]

What on earth are you talking about?

During a speech Trump said if Iraq kicks us out and acts like assholes about it, we'd charge them for the cost of the base. He also said that we'd take out people and places of significance if Iran attacks us.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Hyperbole aside, you came real close with the capitalized part. Iran is of course just another sacrificial lamb, but those are needed for America's relative decline to continue.

This is looking to be yet another in a long line of American military failures.
Invades Afghanistan to remove Taliban from power, Taliban win back the country and Americans are on the way out.
Invades Iraq after accusing it (falsely) of being part of "Axis of Evil" (with Iran), yet through gross mismanagement will not only be kicked out, but has ensured Iraq will actually become aligned with Iran. The occupation will have to end eventually.

This moronic anti-Americanist rhetoric is annoying and tiresome, and your attempt to spin every move done by the US into some great geopolitical defeat has consistently been disingenuous at best.

 

[MrTickles]

Donald Trump knowingly laundered money for Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the entire duration of the 2016 campaign. He did so for the specific branch of the IRGC tasked with acquiring missile guidance systems for ICBMs to enable nuclear strikes against American cities.

• Soleimani assigned the task of acquiring ICBM components to his close ally Mohamed Ghalibaf.
• Ghalibaf's two top deputies, the Darvishi brothers, set up it's most successful front company in collaboration with Azerbaijan's minister of transport, Ziya Mammadov.
• Mammadov spent lavishly across the US looking for business partners, but no one was biting because it was well known they were laundering money for the IRGC. The only American who was willing to partner with him was Donald Trump.

But then Trump was elected, and Trump Org had to cancel the deal.

Ivanka and Trump Organization linked to Suleimani’s front company: New Yorker writer | Raw Story

Normally I'd write it off as fake news, but this one was doing the rounds in 2017 and nobody attempted to hide or discredit it then as the business dealings were on public record.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

During a speech Trump said if Iraq kicks us out and acts like assholes about it, we'd charge them for the cost of the base. He also said that we'd take out people and places of significance if Iran attacks us.

Yeah, but that doesn't explain the "75% of Iraqi Shias are now jumping in with Iran" bit.

Donald Trump knowingly laundered money for Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the entire duration of the 2016 campaign. He did so for the specific branch of the IRGC tasked with acquiring missile guidance systems for ICBMs to enable nuclear strikes against American cities.

• Soleimani assigned the task of acquiring ICBM components to his close ally Mohamed Ghalibaf.
• Ghalibaf's two top deputies, the Darvishi brothers, set up it's most successful front company in collaboration with Azerbaijan's minister of transport, Ziya Mammadov.
• Mammadov spent lavishly across the US looking for business partners, but no one was biting because it was well known they were laundering money for the IRGC. The only American who was willing to partner with him was Donald Trump.

But then Trump was elected, and Trump Org had to cancel the deal.

Ivanka and Trump Organization linked to Suleimani’s front company: New Yorker writer | Raw Story

Normally I'd write it off as fake news, but this one was doing the rounds in 2017 and nobody attempted to hide or discredit it then as the business dealings were on public record.

So now you and blue checkmark Adam Davidson of the New Yorker would have us believe that Trump laundered money to a country whose general he just attacked.

My bullshit meter is blaring right now.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Styx gives a good aftermath summary of this whole affair. Also plus Obama really exposed the Democrats as war hungry fucks so they can't use the same ant-war rhetoric to the same effect that they used during the Bush Administration.

 

[MrTickles]

Styx is completely and utterly blind when it comes to anything that isn't positive news for Trump or on the entire topic of China. His input is irrelevant here. Might as well grace us with his occult videos. Lolbertarians are like communism; they can only exist within the confines and context of an actual, working system that ISN'T lolbertarian or communist.

 

[Adamska]

The asset, struggling to find a way to convincingly win and prove fuck America; decides to go further back in time because he was so decisively raped in this thread.

Trump is the perfect example of a meme gone wrong. At first he was cute and funny, now he's about to become just another American mass murdering war criminal.

As opposed to your masters' amazing human rights record, such as censoring the Internet to hide the amount of your own civvies the mullahs had to kill, mainly using that dead guy they had to force children to cry over.

I'm not engaging you on Dubya's failures because that's moving the goalposts and I refuse to let you control the conversation. Earn them fiddy cents monkeyboy.

Hyperbole aside, you came real close with the capitalized part. Iran is of course just another sacrificial lamb, but those are needed for America's relative decline to continue.

As opposed to Iran slowly ready to explode into another revolution. Or alternatively China's Incel problem and economy built on lies.

Compared to that, we're doing great.

This is looking to be yet another in a long line of American military failures.

Says the man shilling for people who can barely build a Chinese bootleg of the fucking Fishbeds and who needed NORTH KOREA TO HELP THEM BUILD A NAVY. Oh, and who both China and Russia abandoned because they were either busy or alienated by their own actions.

Oh, and who lost their main tactician and most of their higher ups in their gay ops legions of allahu ackbars too.

Invades Afghanistan to remove Taliban from power, Taliban win back the country and Americans are on the way out.

Eh, we killed the orchestrator of the attacks and murdered most of his officers. Oh, and nuked the successor of that terrorist cell too.

Invades Iraq after accusing it (falsely) of being part of "Axis of Evil" (with Iran), yet through gross mismanagement will not only be kicked out, but has ensured Iraq will actually become aligned with Iran. The occupation will have to end eventually.

lol this is why I believe this moron is more likely an Iranian rather than Chinese Asset here. The shias might hate the sunnis in Iraq due to Saddam being Saddam, but they hate Iran a truckload more. Why do you think that Soleiman or however you spell it had to scrounge his own boys to make that fake protest?

And the joke about this is that it ignores the very likely outcome that shia politicians were threatened by those militias given how quickly they sold him out to get yeeted.

Donald Trump knowingly laundered money for Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the entire duration of the 2016 campaign. He did so for the specific branch of the IRGC tasked with acquiring missile guidance systems for ICBMs to enable nuclear strikes against American cities.

• Soleimani assigned the task of acquiring ICBM components to his close ally Mohamed Ghalibaf.
• Ghalibaf's two top deputies, the Darvishi brothers, set up it's most successful front company in collaboration with Azerbaijan's minister of transport, Ziya Mammadov.
• Mammadov spent lavishly across the US looking for business partners, but no one was biting because it was well known they were laundering money for the IRGC. The only American who was willing to partner with him was Donald Trump.

But then Trump was elected, and Trump Org had to cancel the deal.

Ivanka and Trump Organization linked to Suleimani’s front company: New Yorker writer | Raw Story

Normally I'd write it off as fake news, but this one was doing the rounds in 2017 and nobody attempted to hide or discredit it then as the business dealings were on public record.

Desperate to save his masters from getting yeeted by even more drones, the asset uses marching orders to create his own fake and gay collusion story as a part of Iran's very pathetic cyberwar efforts.

 

[DocHoliday1977]

Everything is always America's fault. *eyeroll*

Why was an Iranian General in a country he supposedly HATES?

And someone look for John Kerry. If he's been anywhere near Iranian diplomats in the last 6 months >>>>>>This is all this bullshit.