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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[JosephStalin]

There are people who claim that her smiling and giggling is a sign of PTSD and that depressed people do it all the time.

They're as full of shit as Omar. Have known people who are/were depressed. They didn't smile/giggle a whole lot.

Oh, looked at Omar's above tweets re Islamophobia. She doesn't seem to understand that her actions have been a major driving force behind Islamophobia in the USA.

Yup, figured it was a missile that shot down the airliner. Just thought it was a man-portable SAM. Well, the Iranians sure did fuck this up, on a number of levels.

 

[Atomic Wangler]

There are people who claim that her smiling and giggling is a sign of PTSD and that depressed people do it all the time.

This is why I have a hard time believing anybody when they say they have depression. Too many people use it as a fashion statement or as a shield from taking responsibility.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

They're as full of shit as Omar. Have known people who are/were depressed. They didn't smile/giggle a whole lot.

The ones that do tend to do it at inappropriate times (here) and in inappropriate ways (not here) that make it obvious there's something wrong with them. if you can't tell a bitter or stress laugh from a giggle you might be autistic. But it is news media after all.

This is why I have a hard time believing anybody when they say they have depression. Too many people use it as a fashion statement or as a shield from taking responsibility.

Just like chronic pain, there is no objective test for it so people that genuinely suffer get outnumbered by malingerers and then everyone stops giving a shit and the ones with an actual problem get fucked.

 

[Bass]

Plot twist: Donald Trump is actually the 12th imam/Maidi and all of Iran's fuckups over the last week is the hand of Allah smacking the Ayatollah around for getting in the way of his chosen Emperor of mankind.

 

[Socrates]

I think it's impossible to overstate just how badly the Iranian government has fucked their own position in the span of 48 hours. These medieval style strongman based governance systems have almost 0 flexibility regarding any kind of top level leadership. It's almost certain that most of the alliances Iran had formented with these various terror groups were based entirely on the personal relationships their leadership had with this Soleimani guy. It's also easily assumed that this general used the usual middle eastern strategy of making sure that nobody directly underneath him was anything approaching competent to secure his necessity to the Mullahs.

So to recap in the last 48 hours Iran has:
-Lost the lynchpin of their entire proxy war strategy
-Signaled to their allies their own weakness with a pathetic counter strike that killed no one of importance
-Tore apart the only leverage they had with Europe, the Nuclear deal
-Either accidentally or intentionally shot down a civilian jetliner that had a bunch of neutral foreign nationals aboard and completely obliterated any international sympathy they might have otherwise gained from the targeted killing of their general

They are so fucked that it almost isn't funny anymore. Almost.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1215349135991287809 (http://archive.vn/TnaOK)

Imagine electing that faggot as president.

 

[pwnest injun]

The only productive thing to come out of this shitshow has been to confirm that the US media is so possessed by Trump Derangement syndrome that they would literally mourn the leader of the fucking quds force and parrot the Ayatollahs own talking points.

I can't wait to call them all Assad todies and Ayatollah apologists.

 

[Echo_Ender]

Possible no human interaction may be been necessary if they set up their missile defense in a totally exceptional manner.

Now I'm imagining them turning on their brand new Iranian-Made AA Defense System for the first time...

And within 2 seconds to switching it on, it sends out a radar sweep, sees the plane, says "TARGET ACQUIRED, FIRING!" and launches a pair of SAMs at the unfortunate airliner before anyone can pull the plug.

Then everyone there stands around asking "What the fuck did we just shoot at?!" until someone flips on the TV, they see the passenger plane they shot down, and everyone stares in silent disbelief as the Curb Your Enthusiasm music starts playing.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

So why do a lot of refugees from the Middle East hate living in America? I had the same experience with Palestinian refugees and they hated living here. Omar is no exception to this and why would she run for office here if she hates it?

They love living in America. It's Americans they hate.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Since all of the threads got merged into this one, if someone wants to make daily summary posts (with links to news articles/not opinion) then I will edit the OP and link to the posts. I'm too lazy to do that sort of thing on my own volition.

 

[Rei is shit]

Justin from canada is about to make an address about the 737. Will he cuck out?

Also we should probably have a separate thread for the 737 shootdown as that is a pretty big deal.

 

[Eddie Bravo]

Stupid Islamic niggers just can't stop embarrassing themselves.

Stuxnet also embarrassed Iran when some exceptional towelhead found a USB stick outside of the facility and decided to plug it in their computer.

Fucking rëtards.

 

[Otterly]

Also we should probably have a separate thread for the 737 shootdown as that is a pretty big deal.

We did - I started it and it got merged. There was quite a bit of chat in the other threads about it so I can see why

 

[Jaded Optimist]

So Trudeau confirms that a STA missle took out the plan, but it might have been "unintentional". Seriously Justin? Who the fuck cares? They shot down a civilian aircraft you nonce.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/champagne-iran-plane-crash-1.5420398

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

Funniest thing I find about the shoot down is that a US ship accidentally shoot down a Iranian airliner 30 something years ago and they have gave us a ton of shit over that (granted rightfully so.) But if they're such retards that they shot down a random Ukrainian airliner then they aren't exactly going to have the high ground they had on the issue anymore.

 

[thx1138]

Funniest thing I find about the shoot down is that a US ship accidentally shoot down a Iranian airliner 30 something years ago and they have gave us a ton of shit over that (granted rightfully so.) But if they're such exceptional individuals that they shot down a random Ukrainian airliner then they aren't exactly going to have the high ground they had on the issue anymore.

The USS Vincennes shoot-down of Iranian Air 655 was stupid beyond all definition of the term. Vincennes didn't warn the aircraft, it wasn't in a combat area, there's no mistaking an Il-series jetliner for an F14, it wasn't descending in a dive towards the battle group the Vincennes was part of - it was pure stress, over-reliance on computer systems, and a gung-ho fuck-you attitude of the crew and commander that led to that shootdown. It was exactly what happened Wed. night in Iran, too. So Iran's 30+ year crutch/shield that the US are so gosh-darn war hungry and blood thirsty went up in flames just like that 737.

 

[Sped Xing]

Odds that glow-in-the-darks made this airliner thing happen?

 

[Otterly]

So Trudeau confirms that a STA missle took out the plan, but it might have been "unintentional".

bloody Trudeau. Saying that as if it’s a mitigating factor.
If it was deliberate it means they’re a bloodthirsty regime capable of taking out civilians
If it was accidental it means their military are so exceptional that a base within spitting distance of a major airport was capable of misidentifying an airliner and shooting it down.
If there was ever an argument for curtailing their nuclear ambitions then this is it. Imagine such incompetence in charge of nukes.

 

[No Ma'ams Land]

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https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1215349135991287809 (http://archive.vn/TnaOK)

Imagine electing that faggot as president.

These people make me legit angry and I will delight in their stupendous loss.

 

[No Ma'ams Land]

So Trudeau confirms that a STA missle took out the plan, but it might have been "unintentional". Seriously Justin? Who the fuck cares? They shot down a civilian aircraft you nonce.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/champagne-iran-plane-crash-1.5420398

"W-well, I know they're dead and for no reason and all, b-b-but they didn't really MEAN to do it, and they've already apolog- *checks notes* th-they'll maybe apologize for it someday, s-so there's no need to freak out about it!"

Useless. Swill.