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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[No Ma'ams Land]

Yes, CNN, we already know. Your ratings are so garbage you can't keep up with the Home Gardening channel, much less a shitposting comedy site.

 

[thx1138]

Iran's borders don't have the privilege of press gaggles and ambulance-chasing ACLU lawyers ready to dive into headlines about unjust treatment.

Yet.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

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.

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I’m actually not fond of that if only because most if not all of the Iranians I’ve dealt with are people that actively fled the regime, or are family of people that did in the initial wave. You’d find few that hate these fucks as much as Iranian expats.

 

[Pinot Pierrot]

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>fat goblin
>hairline so high she looks balding even with the obvious hair care
>can't see an obvious joke if it slapped her on the engorged forehead
>former CIA

They haven't been sending their best...

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

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"People shared this Babylon Bee story just as often as they shared CNN or NYT stories, so they must believe it's true! There's no way that many people are making fun of us!" That or people just like making fun of your fat ass, Don. The Babylon Bee is an overt and well-known parody site, people don't think the articles they write are real and that article in question is clearly satire.

If I were you I'd spend more time trying to find the man who stole your ears and the man who thought it was a good idea to put Greasy Otis in front of a camera.

That combination of potato face and soy beard that Donie has activates some instinctive disgust in me for some reason.

And why are former CIA agents like Cindy Otis so retarded?

 

[Kacho]

Despite (reluctantly) liking Trump, I kinda hope they win this case. The various war powers acts need a good trimming with a chainsaw.

Pretty optimistic bud. Since this is just another 'for the record' orange man bad temper tantrum there is 0% chance any resulting bill would not be a trainwreck. What you say is true but remember Pelosi has been in congress for 30 years, and in a leadership position for a good chunk of that. She had all the time in the world. If she was concerned with Presidential abuse of military power she could have passed a bill a decade ago when the Democrats had a super majority. Instead she sat back as 2 Presidents spent 16 years starting unprovoked and aimless wars in several countries to the tune of thousands of dead soldiers and trillions of wasted dollars. She cheered Obama and Hillary on as they imposed multiple regime changes, gave rise to radical insurgencies like ISIS, and routinely droned and slaughtered people. These are the people who ceded war powers to the President and refused to hold Trump's predecessors accountable for their abuses. These people are responsible for the problem, they won't be the ones providing meaningful change.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Donald J. Trump on Twitter

“IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!”

twitter.com

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A threat a day keep Iran at bay.

A bit late on the draw, methinks. They probably already do have one, and knowing Iran they probably strapped it to a Camel, slapped it on the ass and let it loose, completely directionless, on the full expectation that the camel not only knows where to go, but the bomb will just go off by itself when it arrives at the target area. In the meantime, they will celebrate their expected victory with a night of goat bothering in the candle light while their wives are forced to watch from the closet.

 

[kcbbq]

I can't see how anything about this actually hurts rather than helps Trump get reelected. The people in the age groups that actually show up to vote are in the same age groups that still have a hateboner for Iran. My earliest school memories are 1) watching the first space shuttle launch on a little black and white TV my teacher brought in, 2) being the first kid to touch the brand new Atari 400 computer the school got, and 3) making yellow ribbons and tying them to all the trees, along with every other kid in all the other schools in the area, because we were on the flight path for a local embassy hostage returning (after Iran bitched out and released them because Reagan was scary) on the off chance they could see them as they came into land.

The Soviets were background noise, but Iran was fucking evil. If you weren't alive at the time you can't really grasp that. I'm not sure even al Qaeda/bin Laden brought out the same reaction. bin Laden was going to be got because he was just a porn addicted terrorist.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

The Soviets were background noise, but Iran was fucking evil.

As someone who was not alive all the way back then, I have no clue what Iran was like during that time. What did they do that so overshadowed Russia?

 

[kcbbq]

As someone who was not alive all the way back then, I have no clue what Iran was like during that time. What did they do that so overshadowed Russia?

Stormed the US embassy and took 52 American embassy workers hostage for 444 days, hence Trumps response of 52 targets to Iran's threat of 35.

After all these years and despite his being dead for years now I have a pretty strong reaction to pictures of Khomenei. It's culturally ingrained and it's wierd and kind of stupid.

They keep orchestrating attacks on our embassies and hoping for more hostages because they know we do nothing.

 

[RodgerDodger]

As someone who was not alive all the way back then, I have no clue what Iran was like during that time. What did they do that so overshadowed Russia?

The Iranian revolutionaries “students” under the Ayatolla’s direction assaulted the American Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American diplomats hostage for over a year. While the Democrats, Carter and the Congress were powerless ineffectual and weak. Iran was allowed to float diplomatic norms and torture and abuse our diplomats until the moment Reagan was sworn in.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

AFP and Reuters are both saying the letter is legit.

I doubt it though.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

The Iranian revolutionaries “students” under the Ayatolla’s direction assaulted the American Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American diplomats hostage for over a year. While the Democrats, Carter and the Congress were powerless ineffectual and weak. Iran was allowed to float diplomatic norms and torture and abuse our diplomats until the moment Reagan was sworn in.

To be fair to Carter, much as I dislike the man, he did attempt the disasterous operation Eagle Claw, so he did at least attempt to do something. Which is far more than can be said for the Benghazi response.

 

[nosemouth]

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AFP and Reuters are both saying the letter is legit.

I doubt it though.

LOL my boner will never go away.

 

[RodgerDodger]

To be fair to Carter, much as I dislike the man, he did attempt the disasterous operation Eagle Claw, so he did at least attempt to do something. Which is far more than can be said for the Benghazi response.

he attempted it far far too late, and with far too few resources and planning. He hung American troops out to dry in a poorly conceived Hail Mary after it became clear that the public was appalled at his absolute weak willed lack of response.

 

[Autistic lurker]

British embassy is still working in Tehran. I hope that iranians won't repeat anything exceptional regarding embassies.

 

[Tookie]

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AFP and Reuters are both saying the letter is legit.

I doubt it though.

....and the blue checkmarks are already back to being pro-war.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Sort of off-topic but why do people point at the 1953 Iran Coup as an example of current-day Iran being a fault of the US, but ignore the 1979 Iranian Revolution which overthrew that regime?

I know that the US/CIA's foreign policy has been... complicated, let's say, but not every injustice in the world is because of America. I'd say as a Superpower we're better than the alternatives and the empires of old.

The 1979 revolution is a culmination of our shenanigans in Iran. Do you know the US Embassy takeover was so sudden the staff was unable to burn most of our documents after shredding? A group painstakingly put together all the shredded documents back together and if you want to know the extent of our goings on in pre-revolutionary Iran you can find them on the Internet Archive (my link is on another computer but do a Google search).

But after a certain point there comes a time to put on the big girl panties and act like an adult. Iran should have, at some point, made its peace with the US and focused on itself and its interests without resorting to kidnapping and murder. They're overplaying their hand and are in danger of losing it all (and they deserve to, in my opinion).

 

[kcbbq]

Wonder how Iraq would do if the US cut off all aid, too. Losing almost $4billion a year would have to suck, especially the half billion in food aid. Iran needs to tighten their belt and step up!

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

he attempted it far far too late, and with far too few resources and planning. He hung American troops out to dry in a poorly conceived Hail Mary after it became clear that the public was appalled at his absolute weak willed lack of response.

Yeah, especially when you compare it with the Canadian Caper, which was actually successful.