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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Spawn said:
This has the potential to become a huge regional shitshow. If the Russian's get involved this could lead to WW3. I mean hell if we bomb the Iranian nuclear sites those reactors will pretty much become huge dirty bombs and kill a shit load of people and cause untold ecological damage. All shitpositng aside. If we really go for this thing a whole lot of innocent people are gonna die and damnit they don't need to. Not to fulfill some sort of dick measuring contest between the Persians and the Americans.
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Why would Russia get involved beyond pointing and laughing at the Iranians for doing the one fucking thing everyone knows you don't do...

Take on the Hamburger Kingdom's military in a straight up fight.

No matter what happens, Russia fucking wins. If the Iranian oil factories go Kaboom, then they have a larger market for their oil and the EU gets buttraped, which makes him happy. If Iran holds us off, we're distracted while they build their pipelines and buttfuck Merkel some more.

They don't have to do anything. They don't have to get involved with anything besides eating popcorn and laughing over stolen missile-cam footage.

"Wait! PAUSE IT! Look at that guy's face right there! He just realized he's fucked! AHAHAHAHAH!"

And you know what, if you don't want your reactors turned into poison dirt wells, maybe you should, oh, I don't know, NOT FUCK WITH THE BIGGEST MILITARY POWER IN HUMAN HISTORY WHO MIGHT AS WELL BE DOING MAGIC AS FAR AS YOUR CONCERNED?

But, you know, that's just Crazy Talk. (He sells fireworks under the overpass)
 
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Spawn said:
This has the potential to become a huge regional shitshow. If the Russian's get involved this could lead to WW3. I mean hell if we bomb the Iranian nuclear sites those reactors will pretty much become huge dirty bombs and kill a shit load of people and cause untold ecological damage. All shitpositng aside. If we really go for this thing a whole lot of innocent people are gonna die and damnit they don't need to. Not to fulfill some sort of dick measuring contest between the Persians and the Americans.
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Doubt Russia will do anything after Iran went crying to the UN and Russia vetoed on them and told them to get fucked.
 
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Spawn said:
This has the potential to become a huge regional shitshow. If the Russian's get involved this could lead to WW3. I mean hell if we bomb the Iranian nuclear sites those reactors will pretty much become huge dirty bombs and kill a shit load of people and cause untold ecological damage. All shitpositng aside. If we really go for this thing a whole lot of innocent people are gonna die and damnit they don't need to. Not to fulfill some sort of dick measuring contest between the Persians and the Americans.
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I can only see Russia being more invovled if one of Iran's missiles winds up exploding over their border or they begin targeting Syria. Otherwise I just expect them sit back and watch Iran get glassed.
 
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Your Weird Fetish said:
We might blow something up and/or no-scope another jihadi. Not gonna be a real war though.
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If we do anything, I'd expect it to be in a similar scope to Operation El Dorado Canyon, or maybe a sequel to Operation Praying Mantis. In any case it'll be humiliating for the Iranians and continue to show how helpless they are when faced with a functional military from a superior adversary.
 
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Iwasamwillbe said:
False equivalence (not false equivocation, god I was so stupid for confusing those two terms).
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Hey... is it? The single-minded "America = good guys, Middle East = bad guys" perspective throughout the thread seems to be just as thought-terminating, you'd think people would have realized by now that geopolitical conflicts are far more complicated than Harry vs Voldemort
 
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"BREAKING: Iranian missile attack only resulted in Iraqi casualties"

Lmaoooo
 
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