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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I'm still not sure sanctions are the best way to break Iran. I mean they have had a history as a modern secular state. Is all that infrastructure already gone? Or will crippling sanctions just speed their populace's embrace of being medieval moon worshipers?
 
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IAmNotAlpharius said:
I could see this being a lie to save face or if they just wanted to come across as strong to their people.

www.yahoo.com

Iran believed to have deliberately missed U.S. forces in Iraq strikes: sources

Iran is believed to have deliberately avoided U.S. military casualties during retaliatory missile strikes on bases housing American troops in Iraq, following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general, according to U.S. and European government sources familiar with intelligence assessments. The sources,
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Iran believed to have deliberately missed U.S. forces in Iraq strikes: sources

Iran is believed to have deliberately avoided U.S. military casualties during retaliatory missile strikes on bases housing American troops in Iraq, following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general, according to U.S. and European government sources familiar with intelligence assessments. The sources,
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Observotron said:
Tin foil hat time, but I think that's the case. Let's be real, if they wanted to kill Americans, they could. They were backed up against the wall, either do nothing and look weak to your country and neighbors, or attack the US and commit suicide.
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Yeah, but what does this do?

It makes them look like impotent, incompetent, faggots.

Fear us! We exploded some dirt!
 
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Кот Бегемот said:
One thing that's not anedotal are hard facts about Chinese economy or the evidence (like the ghost cities) and for that, you don't really need to speak Chinese at all, you just need valid sources of stats.
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Or you just need to watch channels like serpentza who literally do independent bike tours around China and film themselves sauntering around the miles and miles of concrete shells that are everywhere in the urbanized parts of the country.
 
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BONE_Buddy said:
Yeah, but what does this do?

It makes them look like impotent, incompetent, faggots.

Fear us! We exploded some dirt!
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Well, allegedly reports from inside Iran state they killed 80 Americans. They probably have a tight control on the media over there, not to mention anti-western propaganda.

As far as Iranians are concerned, I'm sure they believe they killed 80 soldiers and the reports of no deaths is propeganda.
 
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Here are some images of the damage to these bases:

It isn't much, but I just do not accept the whole: "they were only pretending to be harmless"
 

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Your Weird Fetish said:
So that was a lot of nothing really.
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His rambling tangent about us not needing oil and being an energy exporter has me itching to write up an autistic rant about how even Iraq v2 in 2003 wasn't actually about America's personal energy security so much as Europe's, per usual.

Observotron said:
I remember reading Theory that he had a stroke at one point during his term. It's not the craziest cover up of a president with disabilities, the world didn't know anything was wrong with Roosevelt until much later.
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If we're discussing presidents having mental issues stemming from a stroke in office and needing to hide that fact from the public, Woodrow Wilson is the better example. His wife was functionally our first female president.
 
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Your Weird Fetish said:
I'm still not sure sanctions are the best way to break Iran. I mean they have had a history as a modern secular state. Is all that infrastructure already gone? Or will crippling sanctions just speed their populace's embrace of being medieval moon worshipers?
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'If we attack, they can use us as a common enemy. If we keep sanctioning them for being tards, their people will get more resentful.'

I guess that's the logic.
 
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His rambling tangent about us not needing oil and being an energy exporter has me itching to write up an autistic rant about how even Iraq v2 in 2003 wasn't actually about America's personal energy security so much as Europe's, per usual.
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Yeah if we actually did wars for oil I'd totally endorse such interventionism. We'd make a lot of money and weaken a lot of enemies. And also destroy Saudi Arabia.

Shield Breaker said:
'If we attack, they can use us as a common enemy. If we keep sanctioning them for being tards, their people will get more resentful.'

I guess that's the logic.
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What country has ever been overthrown by a democratic revolution because of sanctions though? I mean I get the idea, and I believed it myself. It sounds logical. but is there any actual record of it working?
 
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