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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[Jewthulhu]

>some leaf claiming in the replies that the US is going to lose its superpower status because of this
L M A O

At least we know who'll be replacing the US.

Spoiler

 

[WonderWino]

Joke's on you, it's already been ground up and put into some Jewish lady's face cream.

Don't be absurd. Everyone know that They use those foreskins to make only the finest quality american pork rinds. Lightly salted and deep fried to perfection

Will we see the reboot tonight?

I hope not. Wouldn't be surprised if iran is about to get the shit bombed out of them but an all out invasion and actual war? I hope not. That said I think invading iran is the one thing that could cost trump the 2020 election. Nobody wants to be drawn into yet another ten year clusterfuck in the middle east

They are stopping civilian aircrafts from entering

Indeed. Its a done deal at this point once such restrictions start being made public. Something is going down and its going to involve a shit ton of either bombing or air support. Whatever is about to happen iran isn't going to like it. 2020 is about to start off with a bang, quite literally.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

Yeah lol. I'm expecting Iranians to bomb Israel in the coming hours

Also KWWL and other news agencies has confirmed that Iranian fighter jets have entered Iraqi air space

Report: Iranian fighter jets deployed

NBC News Tehran Bureau Chief and correspondent Ali Arouzi on Iranian fighter jets being deployed.

kwwl.com

Firing missile is one thing but launching jet fighter?

Do they want to get fucked?

 

[FemalePresident]

All he had to do was get out of the middle east and build a damn wall.

Truth be told, Mexicans are worse.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

At least Norks mastered photoshop.

I had to nearly get a virus going on ED to get this because you had to remind me of it.

 

[Comandante Marcos]

If that's the case, Iran's military just committed mass suicide. They'll all be dead within days.

If they do bomb Israel, or even US bases in Iraq, it's game over. Now they get to see if they'll really get their virgins.

"I'm gonna run out of virgins!" -Allah (anybody know the source of this joke? Props if you do.)

 

[Local Hobo]

Since this is essentially kids shooting bottle rockets at your junk car that is on cinder blocks, what is the equivalent of spraying them with a garden hose?

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

I’m not fond of another war, but since Iran attacked us we may as well kick their ass and give the Kurds a homeland.

 

[who dare wins?]

At least we know who'll be replacing the US.

Spoiler

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YEah lol. Also medium range ballistic missiles would benefit over kill since ain al asad air basebis 400 km from Iran. Small range ballistic missiles would do fine. Also American senators said 12 missiles have been fired. I'm expecting like 1 American dead and 2 jar heads injured becuase they were drunk and didn't know where the buncker was

 

[pull over dat ass too fat]

We were kicking the shit out of the communists but it was the publics reaction to the war back home that stopped up the war, not the VIetcong. Public support was in the tanks while we had the Vietcong on the back foot.
Not that I agree with the war at all, Ho Chi Minh should have been supported in the first place and the war would've been avoided entirely.

Pentagon Papers suggested that we never would have won in Vietnam. False reports on death counts were given to cook the books and the admin was more than willing to keep it going. I agree that the fact we weren't winning wasn't what made it an atrocity, though.

 

[Thornforg]

All he had to do was get out of the middle east and build a damn wall.

All you had to do, was build the damn wall, DJ!

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

All he had to do was get out of the middle east and build a damn wall.

All we had to do was get off the damn zioshill train CJ!

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Reminder that as this crisis escalates, we have no Director of National Intelligence, no Dep Dir, no Homeland Security Secretary, no Dep Sec, no head of CBP or ICE, no State Dept Under Sec of Arms Control, no Asst Sec for Europe, and no Navy Sec.

Garrett M. Graff on Twitter

“Reminder that as this crisis escalates, we have no Director of National Intelligence, no Dep Dir, no Homeland Security Secretary, no Dep Sec, no head of CBP or ICE, no State Dept Under Sec of Arms Control, no Asst Sec for Europe, and no Navy Sec.”

twitter.com

http://archive.md/EAL7Q

 

[Bagronkleton]

Looks like it's time to play a new game: 52 Pickup.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

Since this is essentially kids shooting bottle rockets at your junk car that is on cinder blocks, what is the equivalent of spraying them with a garden hose?

Taking a GBU-43/B to the oil field.

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Patriot News on Twitter

“US ABLE TO TRACK IRAN MISSILE LAUNCHES IN REAL TIME, FORCES ABLE TO TAKE COVER - US DEFENSE SOURCES TO LA TIMES.”

twitter.com

🚨 Doge 🚨 on Twitter

“Prime Minister of #Japan has cancelled his planned trip to the Middle East (@AlHadath)”

twitter.com

 

[glossdrop]

According to the Spectator Index twitter:

[https://mobile.twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1214725884969508865]



"BREAKING: Blasts heard in central Baghdad"

[https://mobile.twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1214719039995400194]



"BREAKING: Iran threatens to strike Haifa in Israel and Dubai in the UAE."

Why is Iran doing everything they can to piss away any chance of this being an isolated conflict between them and the US?

 

[Superman93]

> Doesn't kill anyone
> Didn't hit anything
> Thinks their tough
Did this bitchmade ayatolloah just launch a bunch of missiles like a tard to try to poster like a tough guy. Your spergout isn't fooling anyone but you did have me going there so nice try.

 

[Several Goats]

How immediate would an American response likely be?

 

[TitanWest]

Just nuke the whole middle east please, maybe if there were some regime changes we wouldn't be inundated with refugees who hate the very countries they flee to. Immigrants used to treat the West with respect.

"Regime change" gave us those refugees. As the late Muammar Gaddafi said: