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.


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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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Shady Attorney said:
Didn’t the US send 4000 troops down to Iraq after what happened with the embassy?
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Maybe, I don't exactly remember. @BONE_Buddy can fill you in on that. But sending 4000 troops to protect an embassy is not the same as sending 4000 troops to go on the offensive against another nation.
 
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FemalePresident said:
Aren't civilians there? I read before that they were trying to hit military targets.
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A fuck load of them.

Very unconfirmed report:
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Baxtiyar Goran on Twitter

“Reports of the death of high ranked Iraqi military official in the Iranian missile attack on Iraq’s Ain Assad base. https://t.co/Joj9UA1MED”
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Tasty Tatty said:
Yes. I love how many imbeciles think Iran is full with people meddling their own business when in fact, not only the governments, but many citizens have been told and taught all their lives that US is the enemy they all should destroy even risking their own lives. All while hang homosexuals from cranes and jail little girls for not wearing a veil. They actually hating America only for existing. Radical Islamists want to take over the world and make it muslim. This is almost a fact they need to accept.
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It's a pressure valve so they don't hang the Guardian Council and Supreme leader. 'Hate these guys not us!'.
 
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Thefrogsaregay said:
How likely of a situation of this being just another Desert Storm completely one-sided war against Iran?
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I would say very likely, except less boots on the ground and more automated warfare.

As much as people would love for the US to glass Iran, there's far too many resources (oil) that would go to waste that other countries want. On top of that, I believe even Trump knows that Nuclear Holocaust is bad for business.
 
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BONE_Buddy said:
A fuck load of them.

Very unconfirmed report:
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Baxtiyar Goran on Twitter

“Reports of the death of high ranked Iraqi military official in the Iranian missile attack on Iraq’s Ain Assad base. https://t.co/Joj9UA1MED”
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They've also been threatening all their neighbors that they'll fire rockets at them as well if they aid the great satan.
Iranian leadership just went full collective suicide because their hecking generino got killed during a clandestine operation
This year truly started out with the tardiest of governing possible
 
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roxitp0w3rwuzdabest420 said:
Well boy and girls, it's nice knowing you. Neocons always had a hard on for Iran. Lets just hope this is the last country. 4 wars in 30 years all taking place in the fucking desert for oil, saudis, israel and americas desperate attempt to remain the sole superpower.
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Iraq
Syria (through rebels[isis])
Lebanon
Libya,
Somalia
Sudan
Iran

still got some from the ol' list left
 
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NielBreenLover96 said:
Oh shiiiit
The Iranian Government better be fucking prepared for the consequences if they get lucky and cause a sizeable death toll.
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Doubt they'll be that lucky. Am sure all US bases in the entire Middle East have been on high alert since this general was waxed.

Personally, think I'd go for the main electric power plant(s) and major distribution stations serving Tehran, for starters. I'd probably hit the main water plant(s), too. Add a cyberattack to that. By now would guess as many Iranian missiles/aircraft as possible would be deployed to minimize loss to bombing/cruise missile attacks.
 
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lmao
 
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You know.

It's so fucking easy to not get yourself curbstomped by us.

Don't attack us. Don't harbor those that attack us. Don't attack us by proxy by funding, training, or exporting your backwards-ass murder-cult ideology. Keep your grubby, sandy hands to yourself, leave us the fuck alone, and tend to your own shit.

I'm not going to defend some of the shit we've done. Our hands aren't clean either. But this aint us. We didn't raze our fucking embassy. We're not shooting missiles at ourselves. That's on you. We're bigger than you, we're better than you, we have the technological, economic, strategic and moral high ground, and the fact you continue to exist at all is on our sufferance. But that's fine. All we ask is you leave us the fuck alone.
 
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