Ww3 inch closer today update

U.S.-made AGM-114 Hellfire missiles were used in the recent strikes that claimed the lives of Iran’s Quds Force Commander Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani and his comrades, Iraqi sources revealed on January 3.
The Iraqi Tactical Cell Facebook page released a photo showing the remains of the one of the Hellfires used in the attack. The missiles completely destroyed the two vehicles, which were carrying Maj. Gen. Soleimani as well as Iranian and Iraqi commanders.
Introduced in 1982, the AGM-114 air-to-surface missile is guided by semi-active laser. The missile has an operational range of around 8 km.
The type used to assassinate the Iranian commander weighted 52 kg, as the information on the Tactical Cell’s photo reveal. The closest variant of the Hellfire to that weight is the AGM-114R that’s armed with an integrated blast fragmentation sleeve multipurpose warhead.
According to several reports in the U.S. media, the airstrikes on Maj. Gen. Soleimani and his comrades were carried out by a MQ-9 Reaper. The unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) can be armed with at least four Hellfire missiles.

..THERE IS SYMBOLISM WITH ALL OF THESE WW3 THREADS...UH, ID SAY THAT THIS ONE REALLY TAKES OF ON P.'187'!.....

Iraqi air base housing US troops comes under rocket fire north of Baghdad

Good news 4 everyone! Rocket exploded Close to us embassy from baghdad

We wait for this since Jesus was crucified by the Satanic Israeliz

Damaged cars & swarm of US choppers: First footage of rocket attacks on Iraqi facilities housing Americans emerge (VIDEOS)

We need 2 see American blood spilled

Thread: BREAKING: Commander in Katai'b Hezbollah warns Iraqi security forces to stay at least 1000m away from US military bases in Iraq starting Sunday e

They are gave a term??? Wtf? Hit em wh no word

The keyboard sucks

Mortar shells land inside US military base adjacent to presidential complex in Mosul, #Iraq

NOW: Paratroopers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division are departing Fort Bragg for the U.S. Central Command area of operations (Middle East), january 4, 2020

15 hours ago
Unidentified aircraft target the locations of Iranian militias in the Al-Suwayya area of Deir Ezzor

4 hours ago
Deir Al-Zour: Two members of the Iran-backed Baqer Brigade were killed by a landmine in the town of Marat in the eastern countryside

an hour ago
Raqqa: 14 people were found killed in the Badia district of Maadan, in the eastern city of Raqqa, which is under the control of the Assad government

an hour ago
Raqqa: Russian reinforcements arrive in the town of Ain Issa in the northern countryside

22 minutes ago
Warplanes targeted residential areas in Ariha city, rural Idlib with 5 thermobaric bombs dropped all at once

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Public Affairs Office
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NT RESBI
January 05, 2020
Release No. 20200105-01
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CJTF-OIR Statement on Jan. 4 attacks near Iraqi Bases hosting Coalition troops
The military Coalition confirms two attacks near Iraqi bases that host coalition forces. At 7:46
p.m. (Baghdad Time) the International Zone took indirect fire that landed outside of Coalition
facilities and potentially harmed Iraqi civilians. At 7:50 p.m. rockets landed in the vicinity of Balad Air Base. No Coalition troops were harmed on Jan. 4. Iraqi Security Forces are currently investigating the incidents. We will release additional information when it becomes available.
"The night of Jan. 4, two rocket attacks occurred near Iraqi bases that host Coalition troops in Baghdad and Balad-a total of 13 attacks in the past two months. Previous attacks, in November and December, killed and wounded Iraqi and Coalition personnel. We have increased security and defensive measures at the Iraqi bases that host anti-ISIS Coalition troops. Our command places protection of Coalition personnel and security partners as the top
priority; we remain vigilant and resolute." ~Col. Myles B. Caggins III, Coalition military spokesman @OIRspox
"The Iraqi Security Media Cell has confirmed that reports of attacks at the Ninewah Operation Center in Mosul are false; we ask that people request confirmation through government
officials, instead of spreading rumors." ~Col. Myles B. Caggins II, Coalition military spokesmanCoalition confirms two attacks near Iraqi bases that host coalition forces. Added that No Coalition troops were harmed. Iraqi Security Forces are currently investigating the incidents

42 minutes ago
Two demonstrators killed and dozens wounded in Nasiriyah; after they refused to enter the symbolic rites of Soleimani

an hour ago
Iraqi Parliament set to vote on draft bill that ends U.S. presence in Iraq, closes access to Iraqi airspace for military activities — Iraqi State TV

2 hours ago
Anti-terrorist forces deployed around the Iraqi parliament building in anticipation of any emergency

4 hours ago
A demonstration in front of the Qurna oil field in Basra to demand the termination of the American Exxon Mobil contract

Live Updates: Iran Army Commander Says US Lacks Courage to Strike the 52 Targets Trump Spoke About

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14:53

Iran to Finalise New Retreat From Nuclear Deal Later Sunday

14:05

Iran Appeals to United Nations Security Council Over US Killing of General Soleimani

13:59

Nothing to Worry as Situation Peaceful in Gulf Nations - Indian Oil Minister

13:39

Iraqi Parliament to Ask Government to File Complaint Against United States With UN Security Council - Reports

13:39

EU Invites Iranian Foreign Minister to Brussels

13:38

Tehran Protests Against United States Over Trump's Threats to Strike Iran - Foreign Ministry

13:20

Iran Summons Swiss Envoy Over US President Trump's Hostile Remarks - Reports

12:53

Attack on Cultural Sites in Iran will Become Trump's War Crime - Zarif

11:56

Body of Iranian Soleimani Returned to Iran for Farewell Ceremony

Hackers briefly deface website for U.S. government library with pro-Iranian message

The homepage for the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program was briefly altered Saturday evening to show a pro-Iranian message and an image of bloodied Donald Trump being punched in the face. 

A line at the bottom read: "Hacked by Iran Cyber Security Group Hackers. This is only small part of Iran's cyber ability! We're always ready." 

The website was not accessible soon after the image appeared. 

CBS News could not confirm who was responsible. Several experts who track cyber activity were not aware of a group called Iran Cyber Security Group Hackers, and its affiliation with Iran could not be confirmed

Iran has threatened to attack the White House in response to President Donald Trump's warning that any strike on American interests in the region will bring massive retaliation. 

'We can attack the White House itself, we can respond to them on the American soil. We have the power, and God willing we will respond in an appropriate time,' said Iranian MP Abolfazl Abutorabi, according to the Iranian Labour News Agency.

Abutorabi went on to say that 'this is a declaration of war, which means if you hesitate you lose'.

'When someone declares war do you want to respond to the bullets with flowers? They will shoot you in the head,' he added. 

Abutorabi's threat was made during an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, and just days after Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Tehran's overseas clandestine and military operations as head of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, was killed on Friday in a US drone strike on his convoy at Baghdad airport. 

Following massive funeral marches in Iraq, Soleimani's body was flown to the city of Ahvaz in southwest Iran on Sunday. 

Video from the scene shows a casket wrapped in an Iranian flag being unloaded from a plane as a military band plays and the crowd angrily chanted 'Death to America'.

On Saturday, Revolutionary Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami promised 'a strategic revenge which will definitely put an end to the US presence in the region'.  

However, Trump threatened to hit 52 critical targets in Iran in retaliation if Tehran strikes any American interests in the region, upping the stakes after Iran said it had identified 35 targets for potential strikes and raised its red 'flags of revenge' over a key mosque.  

Abutorabi went on to say that 'this is a declaration of war, which means if you hesitate you lose'.
'When someone declares war do you want to respond to the bullets with flowers? They will shoot you in the head,' he added. 

He nailed it!!!

Minister Recommends Parliament to Order Withdrawal of Foreign Troops - Reports
The reports emerge as the US-led coalition fighting Daesh in Iraq has said that it has suspended its fight against the terror group amid increased attacks on US personnel.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi has requested that parliament order the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, Al Arabiya reported, as Iraq's parliament began its extraordinary session.

During the session convened amid growing tensions in the region in the aftermath of Iran's top general Soleimani's killing, the Prime Minister said that both Iraq and the US are interested in terminating the foreign troop presence in the country.

The head of the Iraqi government believes that the foreign troop pullout would be beneficial to the country. He also recalled that US-Iraqi relations did not suffer despite the absence of foreign troops in the country in the period 2011-2014.

"Despite the internal and external difficulties that we might face, it remains best for Iraq on principle and practically", Abdul Mahdi told parliament in a speech.

Soleimani's Killing
Abdul Mahdi also said that the United States informed Iraq about the plans to target the commander several minutes before the attack. He added that the Iraqi authorities gave no such permission.

The Prime Minister revealed that he was scheduled to meet with Soleimani the same morning the general was killed in an airstrike in Baghdad. According to Abdul Mahdi, the Iranian general was expected to deliver a response from Iran to 'a Saudi message'. 

9 minutes ago
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declines to reveal intelligence about "imminent" threat by Soleimani leading to U.S. drone strike. "There are certain things you can't make public," to protect intel assets, Pompeo says fucking itzyk supporter

16 minutes ago
Nasrallah: Iran won't ask you to do anything - to act or not to act. But Resistance Axis forces must decide how to deal with Soleimani's death. So, if any Resistance Axis faction avenges his death, that their decision, and Iran isn't behind that. I like Nasrallah!!!

20 minutes ago
Iraqi lawmakers are demanding that the country be protected from Iranian interference in the event of a US troop exit

41 minutes ago
Nasrallah: Soleimani's assassination isn't an isolated incident. It's the beginning of new American approach to the region

3 hours ago
Crowds of mourners take to the streets of Ahvaz, as Qassem Soleimani's body arrives in Iran ahead of his burial on Tuesday

3 hours ago
According to Iran foreign ministry, Tehran will decide tonight about its fifth step in reducing nuclear commitments

3 hours ago
Iranian Foreign Ministry: Iran does not want war

The Iraqi parliament votes to end the security agreement with the coalition forces. Votes to end the American military presence and confine arms to the state

US will pay heavy price for assassinating General Soleimani: Rouhani


Trump's new threat: US will hit Iran with world's best weapons of war

The remains of anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani and his companions have arrived in Iran from neighboring Iraq where they were assassinated by the US early Friday. 

A massive funeral procession was held early Sunday in Ahvaz, the main city in Iran's eight-year battle against the forces of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein which shaped Soleimani's future as an austere military tactician.

Hundreds of thousands of people, chanting "Death to America and "Death to Israel," held funeral processions for the two commanders and their companions in Baghdad and the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf on Saturday.

Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Iraqi commander Hadi al-Amiri, the top candidate to succeed Muhandis, senior cleric Ammar al-Hakim and other important figures accompanied the the large crowd of mourners.

The war pigs of Israel USA turkey and Saudis form isis

That makes Sense but behind the curtains there is a different deal which tell me an Iranian general has been sacrificed by his own government because he was too old and he knew too much

Trump’s Point of No Return

When I wrote that the coup against President Trump had morphed into a Civil War, I wasn’t kidding. The sham impeachment created the perfect environment for the Democrats and Republicans to get something definitive from him by playing the House and the Senate off each other.

With the Senate Neocon Occupied Territorythe escalation of belligerence since Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through the impeachment vote has been serious.

First, there was the rider to the NDAA which upped the sanctions on everyone willing to work on Nordstream 2. Then Lindsey Graham pushed the frankly insane DASKA billthrough the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Pelosi forced her impeachment vote through the House on partisan lines. Then, clearly overstepping her authority, she refused to send the Articles to the Senate hoping to add a more serious charge, like Obstruction of Justice or Treason for laundering Russian money through Deutsche Bank.

It is under these circumstances we should view the events in Iraq over the last week, especially the killing of IRGC Quds Forces Commander Qassem Solemaini.

Because I’ve warned from the beginning of this impeachment, Trump was just 17 votes in the Senate away from conviction. And failure on his part to respond to an attack on our troops now or our soil, the embassy in Baghdad, would have been enough to turn that many against him and install Mike Pence.

At the end of the day we are held captive by a minority of power-mad Trotskyites without any capacity for forgiveness or humility. They believe in societal order through the whip and the sword.

Truly Maoist in their thinking, the only political power that exists comes from the barrel of a gun. This is why there has been zero opportunities for diplomacy with Iran.

Iran is to be destroyed. If not today, tomorrow. If not then then the day after. It will not end.

And any potential diplomacy was sabotaged at every turn. Peace can only happen through subjugation. Demands placed on Iran after Trump’s disastrous decision to exit the JCPOA were nothing short of regime change, arch neocon Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saw to that.

A man like Solemaini would never submit to this. And yet, fighting a war against the Empire is always reduced to terrorism to sell it to the public.

Like it or not Trump executed the man most responsible for the systemic destruction of ISIS and neutering of Al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq. He’s also a man, over the years, who has fought the U.S. to a standstill across the Middle East.

Those were his pertinent crimes.

The results of these fights were to empower Israel’s enemies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Russia and China supported this in their own interests. Turkey came to realize it was being used.

There was no way around that. It was a direct consequence of winning the battle to preserve Syria from becoming a failed state.

And that is a goal any rational person should wish for.

This is the most dangerous escalation of Trump’s administration. Nothing he’s done to this point compares with killing Solemaini and taking immediate credit for it.

Nothing he’s done is more tone deaf or disproportionate to whatever crimes were the proximate cause. And nothing he could have done would be more galvanizing of resistance to U.S. occupation of Iraq and Syria.

Trump, to his credit, held back the neocons at critical junctures over the past couple of years. After the Russian ELINT plane was shot down, Trump worked with Putin to negotiate a truce which would have seen Iranian forces in Syria pulled back from the Golan Heights as a start to changing the dynamic there.

Benjamin Netanyahu said no, all Iranians out of Syria. The war between Israel and the Shia forces backed by Iran continued. The path to peace could have begun then if Trump had the moral courage to force that outcome.

But the neocons at home had him under suspicion of treason. His National Security staff wouldn’t allow that to happen. If he hadn’t pulled out of the JCPOA and left room to negotiate we wouldn’t be here today.

But he did. And we are downstream of this bad decision. It’s been one escalation after another and a series of increasingly dangerous confrontations. This doesn’t end with Iran going meekly to bed, folks.

They aren’t disobedient children, but they aren’t animals either.

Killing Solemaini was presaged months ago with the U.S. designating the Quds Force a terrorist organization, which gives the U.S. unilateral legal cover to summary execution of anyone affiliated with them, especially if they are not on home soil.

But, at the same time, Trump assassinated (note the difference) members of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces in the raid as well, since these are considered members of the Iraqi military and the attack occurred on Iraqi soil.

So, in simplistic and, I believe, legal terms Trump committed an Act of War against Iraq. Iran obviously considers killing Solemaini, legal definitions aside, such as well.

This is an act Trump cannot walk back. He can’t ask Iran to come to the negotiating table now or ever. It’s an act of overt war. Whether it leads directly to forces facing off in high level combat is debatable. It will certainly continue escalating from here.

Israel has been itching for the U.S. to attack and destroy Iran’s nuclear R&D facilities. The only way to achieve that was to get Trump to pull out of the JCPOA, forcing Iran back into enrichment and then using that as the casus belli.

Welcome to 2020.

And the sad truth is that it means more killing, more murder and more of everything bad. There is no Just War rationalization for this. While no one rational wants to see Iran with nuclear weapons the end result of the policy led us to that potential outcome.

No rational person should want anyone with nuclear weapons and yet Netanyahu sits on hundreds of warheads.

Beating people into submission doesn’t work. The neocons told Trump to smack Iran in the mouth, that’s the only lesson these animals understand.

By the way, they say that about everyone.

Solemaini may have been responsible for hundreds of American deaths, but Iran and the U.S. have been at war for forty years. At some point that has to be processed honestly.

Americans supporting this refuse to comprehend that we’re as much to blame as Iran is for the violence. We’re not the good guys and they aren’t the bad guys. Everyone sucks here. For every Iranian that shouts “Death to America” there are Americans who sing “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Bomb, Bomb Iran.”

Trump was elected to end this belligerence but he’s incapable of separating strength from weakness. A mafiosi-type who uses violence indiscriminately, Trump is a weak man.

This was indiscriminate in that Trump believes the political calculus is in his favor, so he can get away with it. He shores up his support in the Senate just long enough to beat the impeachment and can sail to re-election.

But, who he is was written on the bombs he threw at the Al Shairat airbase and the MOAB he dropped in Afghanistan in April 2017 to prove a point to Putin and Xi he wasn’t a wimp.

But he is a wimp. And a coward. And neither man was impressed by this. He hasn’t won a single negotiation of note in three years. Killing Solemaini was the result of having no capacity for diplomacy.

China’s won the trade war. Russia gets their pipelines. Syria will be returned to Syrians and Iraq will reject U.S. presence there. Venezuela won’t fall and North Korea has nukes. Nothing has changed and yet everything has.

A strong man admits his mistakes and makes concessions to those he’s harmed. He doesn’t hide behind how unfair it is the political machine is arrayed against him.

And, now, he’s a failed president no different than Obama who he despises.

The only thing more pathetic than Trump right now is the gaggle of jackals running against him. Weep for the future.

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Hezbollah chief urges attacks, including suicide bombings, on US bases in region

Iran Army Commander Says US Lacks Courage to Strike the 52 Targets Trump Spoke About


19:46

NATO Convenes Emergency Meeting Over Escalation in Iraq for Monday - Report

19:31

Former IRGC Commander Says Iran's Retaliation for Soleimani's Killing Will Include Haifa, Israel Military Centres - Report

18:25

Trump Did Not Threaten to Target Iranian Cultural Sites - Pompeo

17:35

The US Will Act 'Lawfully' After Trump's Threats Towards Iran - Pompeo

17:28

Iraqi Cleric Sadr Calls For Cancelling Security Agreement With US and Closure of Its Embassy - 

The night is about to come in Iraq and Iran. Let's hope we're going to have some PROMISSED action tomorrow morning in the NEWS, but until then, goodbye everybody

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IRAN'S MISSILE FORCES AT HEIGHTENED STATE OF ALERT -U.S. OFFICIAL

BREAKING: 1 US service member and 2 US Dept. of Defense contractors were killed, and 2 Dept. of Defense "members" injured, in attack at Manda Bay Airfield by al-Shabab terror group in Kenya - NBC News

Footage of tonight's rocket attack on the US Embassy, Baghdadan

.@realDonaldTrump: These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless

Iranian missile forces on alert across Iran: Reuters citing US official

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