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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Superman93 said:
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> 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. :story:
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he is fooling Iranians just fine. That's what matters the most.
 
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Local Hobo said:
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?
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Droning the launch sites with the original Predators that are in box in someone's garage on a half-decommissioned air force base and using TOW-II weapons dug out of an old half-forgotten bunker system in Germany.
 
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Aurora Intel on Twitter

“With the reports coming out that there was no #US casualties there are two things to consider here; 1) how the US will decide to respond to this. 2) #Iran/#IRGC won’t be satisfied with this result, their ballastic attack “failed” their objective.”
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Aurora Intel on Twitter

“The sad truth is it killed some #Iraq|i’s who got caught up in the middle of this fight which is horrendous. Interesting times ahead. Im off to sleep now but Adam will cover until I’m up again. Night all and to our followers caught up in this, stay safe 🙏🏻 [David]”
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Doge on Twitter

“White House stating reports that #Trump was preparing an Oval Office speech are not true, and were never true. (@BNONews)”
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Iwasamwillbe said:
That is a complete misrepresentation of my point, but ok.
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What point could you possibly be trying to make? Of course the Middle East is acting purely in self interest, do you (and the other 5 posters who keep cheerleading for the US) not realize that every country in the world acts in the way that benefits them the most, and that's there's no such thing as good guys or bad guys? Yet it's implying that Israel is part of this conflict that's thought terminating.
 
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glossdrop said:
According to the Spectator Index twitter:

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"BREAKING: Blasts heard in central Baghdad"

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"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?
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PRobably the Iranian jets deployed are doing those bombings or more missiles. Expecting Saudi oil fields to get fucked over a bit.

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

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GAddafi was very right with NATO. There's a reason why I support Assad. What will be after him? Some dumb fuck sand niggers fighting against each other like in Libya? Same will happen with Iran if a war where to happen
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
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.

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“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.”
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And history's going to lay that shit right on the Dems and them refusing to confirm anyone.

Doesn't matter if that's the truth, that's how it's going to be spun, that's how people are going to look at it.
 
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What point could you possibly be trying to make? Of course the Middle East is acting purely in self interest, do you (and the other 5 posters who keep cheerleading for the US) not realize that every country in the world acts in the way that benefits them the most, and that's there's no such thing as good guys or bad guys? Yet it's implying that Israel is part of this conflict that's thought terminating.
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there is not really bad guys or bad countries (... may be Canada), but there are definitely asshole leaders and I'd rather see those taken out like that goat raping general without millions of grunts dead.
 
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Iwasamwillbe said:
>send rockets and missiles everywhere within range
>not kill even one American

A B S O L U T E L Y

S H A L O M
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Might have been the point. Trump has been "Somewhat" committed to the whole "If you kill Americans WE will mess you up" Might just be a way for Iran to say to their people: "Look we shot at the bad men"
 
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