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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[Christ Cried]

I understand fearing China under Xi, but you have to remember that this guy is a political Ubermensch, managing to get all three branches of the party under his control. This isn't a common occurrence. Unless he's heavily grooming a successor, things are going to go downhill once he dies or gets ousted.

 

[Null]

What are you even trying to accomplish with all this?

I was throwing in my opinion on my fucking site about what I feel is a decline in the US and I somehow got 6 people desperately trying to convince me I'm wrong about everything, and now you're trying to lecture on not being nice enough in defending my position. Fuck you people.

What am I trying to get out of posting on my fucking site? How about my fucking money's worth, shithead.

 

[Ma_Hooty]

F to the commenters trying to steer this thread back on topic - it's been infected with /pol/-lio (I'm sorry don't hurt me)

So what are the outcomes now that Iran said no takesies-backsies with the black box? When someone tries to openly hide something, that's automatic suspicion and you can't tell me otherwise.

Engine failure, my ass.

 

[Sanshain]

I was throwing in my opinion on my fucking site about what I feel is a decline in the US and I somehow got 6 people desperately trying to convince me I'm wrong about everything, and now you're trying to lecture on not being nice enough in defending my position. Fuck you people.

What am I trying to get out of posting on my fucking site? How about my fucking money's worth, shithead.

If that's the case then in future, I'll try my best not to engage with you. Sorry for causing an issue.

 

[Christ Cried]

F to the commenters trying to steer this thread back on topic - it's been infected with /pol/-lio (I'm sorry don't hurt me)

So what are the outcomes now that Iran said no takesies-backsies with the black box? When someone tries to openly hide something, that's automatic suspicion and you can't tell me otherwise.

Engine failure, my ass.

>muh /pol/
Dude, this isn't even 4chan

 

[Shield Breaker]

I was throwing in my opinion on my fucking site about what I feel is a decline in the US and I somehow got 6 people desperately trying to convince me I'm wrong about everything, and now you're trying to lecture on not being nice enough in defending my position. Fuck you people.

What am I trying to get out of posting on my fucking site? How about my fucking money's worth, shithead.

We still love you bb.

 

[The Great Chandler]

Can we just stop sperging about China and get back to laughing at Iran? They're literally a lolcow government!

 

[Banditotron]

I was throwing in my opinion on my fucking site about what I feel is a decline in the US and I somehow got 6 people desperately trying to convince me I'm wrong about everything, and now you're trying to lecture on not being nice enough in defending my position. Fuck you people.

What am I trying to get out of posting on my fucking site? How about my fucking money's worth, shithead.

Have we entered some sort of strange eternal /pol/ summer?

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

What am I trying to get out of posting on my fucking site? How about my fucking money's worth, shithead.

Derailing and shitting up an Iran thread with China autism is more like it.

 

[Null]

Derailing and shitting up an Iran thread with China bullshit is more like it.

I supported my statement about the US and people took it as a personal challenge to hashtag-redpill me on how stinky chinese people are and how China is totally a big house of cards if you think about it.

 

[The best and greatest]

I was throwing in my opinion on my fucking site about what I feel is a decline in the US and I somehow got 6 people desperately trying to convince me I'm wrong about everything, and now you're trying to lecture on not being nice enough in defending my position. Fuck you people.

What am I trying to get out of posting on my fucking site? How about my fucking money's worth, shithead.

To be fair to them, I can understand feeling a bit insulted because you completely rejected his ideas out of hand but then aren't willing to expand on why when asked.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

If we want to continue this debate let’s move it over to deep thoughts.

 

[It's HK-47]

The whole thing was kabuki theatre so that Tehran could save face.

 

[Null]

To be fair to them, I can understand feeling a bit insulted because you completely rejected his ideas out of hand but then aren't willing to expand on why when asked.

His ideas are anecdotes, second hand information, and western media headlines that perfectly juxtapose my own. All I can do is say what I think. Trying to disprove a preconception is an impossible task and I did not enlist myself to it, I just wanted to explain my pessimism. I don't owe anyone any fucking thing.

Don't try to take some sort of highground by claiming you were following the rules of debate procedure or whatever the fuck you think you're doing by endlessly arguing with me about your own understanding of a country you've never been to and have no interest in besides shitposting about on /pol/.

 

[The best and greatest]

His ideas are anecdotes, second hand information, and western media headlines that perfectly juxtapose my own. All I can do is say what I think. Trying to disprove a preconception is an impossible task and I did not enlist myself to it, I just wanted to explain my pessimism. I don't owe anyone any fucking thing.

Fair enough.

Don't try to take some sort of highground by claiming you were following the rules of debate procedure or whatever the fuck you think you're doing by endlessly arguing with me about your own understanding of a country you've never been to and have no interest in besides shitposting about on /pol/.

I will certainly keep that in mind!

 

[RodgerDodger]

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The whole thing was kabuki theatre so that Tehran could save face.

Yup. Soleimani got caught making trouble and caught a Hellfire for it. Iran knows and understands this. And doesn’t want to go to war over it. But has to try and “save face”. And is doing so in such a typically middle eastern way. Such as shooting down a friendly civilian airliner taking off from their own capital.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

I supported my statement about the US and people took it as a personal challenge to hashtag-redpill me on how stinky chinese people are and how China is totally a big house of cards if you think about it.

You were also part of the problem, as you seemed to engage in more bitter disdain with every post in that discussion, and even went on livestream to sperg out about the US even more.

Basically, what I'm saying is: lol calm down.

 

[Shady Attorney]

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The whole thing was kabuki theatre so that Tehran could save face.

Or maybe the US made a deal to kill Soleimani to help shake up the government in Iran and allow Iran to fire missiles at empty bases to let Iran keep the appearance of power. Tin foil hat time

I knew it! tin foil hat intensifies

 

[Ma_Hooty]

>muh /pol/
Dude, this isn't even 4chan

D-Do you know what a pun is...?

I was throwing in my opinion on my fucking site about what I feel is a decline in the US and I somehow got 6 people desperately trying to convince me I'm wrong about everything, and now you're trying to lecture on not being nice enough in defending my position. Fuck you people.

What am I trying to get out of posting on my fucking site? How about my fucking money's worth, shithead.

Personally, I don't care what people's opinions are because it's good to hear them - even if they make me lose brain cells in the process; keeps me out of the chambers. Honestly, KF and maybe a handful of other sites let everyone share their opinions, exceptional or not.

I also get to laugh at said exceptional opinions (RIP Mr. Tickles lol 🗣).

Anyway, Iran isn't giving up the black box that belongs to Ukraine - wouldn't this have repercussions crime-wise? Like how there's spoliation (hiding, destroying, withholding, etc) of evidence here in America. Not to say they have a clean record, I just want to watch them fuck up for a little while longer lol.
How many more of their citizens will they kill this week? They're already in the triple digits

 

[Null]

You were also part of the problem, as you seemed to engage in more bitter disdain with every post in that discussion, and even went on livestream to sperg out about the US even more.

Basically, what I'm saying is: lol calm down.

I am absolutely not sorry about saying what I want, and I don't know if you realize this but I've streamed every Wednesday almost without pause for more than a year. The Iran shit literally just happened and it wasn't a prepared stream, as I'm moving to Friday, so that's what I had to talk about. I wasn't even angry at the US, I was angry at how shitty Europe is.