
Iraq's Worst Fears Have Come True – a Proxy War Is on Its Doorstep
• https://www.unz.com, PATRICK COCKBURNIraqis have a well-honed instinct about approaching danger which stems from their grim experience during 40 years of crisis and war.
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Iraqis have a well-honed instinct about approaching danger which stems from their grim experience during 40 years of crisis and war.
With echoes of Iraq, media are once again cheering an attack against a Middle Eastern country without evidence.
Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing, said on Thursday night that the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian terrorist mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani was a violation of international law.
President Trump's drone strike that killed a top Iranian commander at Baghdad International Airport on Friday has sparked concern among many Americans that the government could reinstate the draft ahead of a possible military conflict with Iran.
-if Iran hits any US targets after Tehran put an $80m bounty on his head, threatened the White House and tore up nuclear deal
A number of intelligent analysts predict Iranian retaliation for Washington's murder of a high Iranian official who was in Iraq on a diplomatic mission. I understand their logic.
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Whether he is eating ice cream or not, Trump appears to be on a rampage to recreate the end of The Godfather.
Multiple similar accounts have now come out over the inside the Situation Room decision-making process concerning the risky move to take out the IRGC's Gen. Qasem Soleimani, as well as how the drone attack operation played out at the airport.
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The nonsensical statement below from the Pentagon announcing that the US government has committed an act of war against Iran should frighten everyone:
The US drone strike at Baghdad airport that killed Iran's top commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and a senior leader of Iraq's Shia militia, has set the Mideast on fire.
It's not going to be like Iraq 2003.
"As an Iranian, I want to thank you with all my heart"
How could Iran crisis lead to World War Three? Tehran could hit back with cyber attacks or terror attacks on US forces and Israel - provoking Donald Trump to retaliate in tit-for-tat that could drag in Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and Turkey
Grisly pictures emerge of the moment Reaper missiles killed Qassem Soleimani - and the distinctive ring that was all they could find to identify him - as Lindsey Graham celebrates 'chopping off the Ayatollah's right fist'
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is reporting China on Friday has requested restraint from all sides, "especially the United States," after the U.S. killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in an airstrike at Baghdad international airport.
As peace advocates voiced alarm at the very real prospect of all-out conflict with Iran following the assassination Thursday night of that country's top military leader on orders from U.S. President Donald Trump...
Update: Jan. 3: NBC News has confirmed the U.S. military will send 3,500 troops to the Middle East following the attack of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and the killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
- Trump's Takedown Of Iranian General Qassim Suleimani Is Likely To Start A Global War
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei appointed Brigadier General Esmayeel Qaani as the new Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force whose late chief, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, w
In one line: Iran will respond; the how and when is uncertain but full-scale war is unlikely.
I just got home and saw the news that General Qasem Soleimani has been murdered along with another 5-8 people by what was initially reported as a MRL strike (Russian sources say it was a drone attack). This was bad enough. Then this:
The US has threatened to stage an attack and blame it on Iran over and over in the last few years. Don't let a war based on false pretenses happen again.
...Pentagon drone launched four rockets at car carrying Iranian general after he arrived from Syria to meet ringleaders of embassy attack
President Trump has expanded his comments this morning, switching focus to Soleimani's terrible deeds...
President Donald Trump ordered a U.S. military airstrike Thursday that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force, in an airstrike near Baghdad's airport, the Pentagon said in a statement.
...Pentagon says. President Trump ordered a game-changing U.S. military attack that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force
After previously mourning the death of ISIS dirtbag Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, "journalists" at Jeff Bezos' Washington Post are now weeping for "revered military leader" Qassem Soleimani after President Trump ordered his killing as a response to
The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran's proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's international airport early on Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the regi