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Iraq informs the Iranian Chargé d'Affairs of his refusal to bomb Iran to US bases and considers it a violation of sovereignty


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13 minutes ago, GregHi said:

Just remember this is 100 recon marines.. that might be equal to 4,000 troops.. lol

My exact thoughts! 100 well trained Marines can kick a lot of butts. May the Lord bless everyone of our military men and women. I pray not one will be harmed in this situation. 

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TRUMP SPOKE WITH IRAQI PM ON NEED TO PROTECT AMERICANS: WHITE HOUSE

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SULAIMANI — President Donald Trump spoke on Tuesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi and emphasized the need to protect US personnel and facilities, the White House said in a statement, after an attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad.

“The two leaders discussed regional security issues and President Trump emphasized the need to protect United States personnel and facilities in Iraq,” the statement said. 

(NRT Digital Media/Reuters)

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1 hour ago, GregHi said:

Just remember this is 100 recon marines.. that might be equal to 4,000 troops.. lol

Hell, send 1000 Recon Marines, 4000 Regular Marine and what ever after a couple carpet bombing runs with Buffs than send the Army in to clean up what was left.....Nothing like a well placed M.O.A.B. in this game of cat and Mouse either.

 

Note, no respect as they have Spec Op's as well and just as capable. 

 

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{Baghdad: Al Furat News} Snipers and armed men of the US Marine Corps (Marines) deployed over the headquarters of the American embassy in Baghdad and behind its walls, fearing attempts to storm it.
It is noteworthy that three v-22 osprey aircraft landed yesterday at the embassy airport to land 100 Marines from Kuwait at the embassy military base, and it is planned that another 650 will arrive during these days.

The sit-ins were renewed for a second day in front of the embassy, and protesters set fire to the building's fence, amid warnings from the embassy that the Marines were authorized to shoot and kill.

This came in response to the targeting of the headquarters of the crowd with an American raid that led to the death of 27 martyrs and dozens of wounded, in a response from Washington to targeting an American base that killed an another site and wounded two. is over

 
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Iraqi political analyst, Wissam Sabah, revealed the plan of the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to abort the popular uprising inside Iraq by striking American bases in Iraq, then the United States responds to these militias regardless of popular demonstrations, and says look what America did to turn Public opinion with demonic plans and an attempt to silence voices rejecting the Iranian presence inside Iraq.

And the American Pentagon sent 750 Marines to Baghdad yesterday to secure the headquarters of the American embassy in the Green Zone after the demonstrations that it witnessed.

Wissam Sabah said in a press statement, "The Iraqi street became aware of this issue and decided not to go behind this pernicious scheme led by Iran and whoever stands in front of the American embassy in the green capital are the armed militias of Iran."

"Why did the Iraqi government open the gates of the Green Zone and did not prevent their passage," the Iraqi political analyst asked, stressing that "at that time we make sure that the Iraqi government is a militia government and not a homeland government, especially since the Iraqi government declares a general mourning for three days over the martyrs of Hezbollah and has not announced On the people of Iraq, who were martyred in various places in the past demonstrations, "he said.

Al-Sabah stressed that "the American government does not concede anything in the matter of prejudice, especially the embassy and its elements, and they protect by land, sea, and air, and this is a well-known piece for everyone, and that is why Iran took advantage of that to direct strikes on American bases." In Iraq represented by the Hezbollah Brigades. "

Wissam Al-Sabah confirmed that Qais Al-Khazali and Mahdi Al-Muhandis and those with them were the ones who destroyed Iraq and were seeking the ruin of the Iraqi people. Therefore, the conscious people said that they are not involved in what is happening inside the Green Zone.

The American army launched strikes on the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades after killing an American civilian in one of the American bases.

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01-01-2020 11:55 AM
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Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution Ali Khamenei strongly condemned the American raids on the PMF sites.

Khamenei described it today, Wednesday, as an American retaliation after the victory of the crowd over the terrorist organization "ISIS".

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hakim: I spoke with the Prime Minister about ending the protests in front of the American embassy

 

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 Hakim: I spoke with the Prime Minister about ending the protests in front of the American embassy

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The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Muhammad Ali Al-Hakim, said today, Wednesday, that he had spoken with the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, and the resigned Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, about ending the protests in front of the American embassy, noting that the message of the protesters had arrived.

Al-Hakim said in a tweet on his platform with "Twitter", that "the protection of diplomats, diplomatic missions and their embassies, remains the responsibility of Iraq, pledged by agreeing to the Geneva Convention."

The Foreign Minister added: "I spoke with Mr. Prime Minister Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces about ending the protests in front of the US embassy and the safety of employees and facilities," noting that "the message of the protesters arrived and the safety of their withdrawal became a necessity."

 

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Member of the House of Representatives, and the candidate for prime minister, Faik Sheikh Ali, confirmed today, Wednesday, that the attack on the American embassy in Baghdad has cost the Iraqi government more than 100 million dollars.

Sheikh Ali said in a tweet followed by "Al-Akhbariya", that "the United States appreciates the damage of the attackers attack on its embassy in Baghdad, at 100 million dollars, an American price of a fence, door, door and jaggoubah."

He added, "Iraq will bury it from the budget of his people," pointing out that it "demands that the leaders of the attacks on the embassy be handed over quietly or leave it to them to hunt them with the kazwa or zinc."

Today's international newspapers dealt with angry protests that took place in front of the United States embassy in Baghdad; and the results of many comparisons between the recent attack and previous attacks on American diplomatic facilities, and highlighted the role of Iraq as a collision point between the influence of the United States and Iran.

 

 

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Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for deployment amid unrest in Baghdad

 

Fort Bragg soldiers will head out throughout the day.

 
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- After protestors stormed a U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the 82nd Airborne Division based out of Fort Bragg is preparing to be deployed to Kuwait, according to officials.

Wednesday morning, soldiers boarded C-17 aircrafts after learning they would be deployed just 18 hours earlier. Soldiers are expected to be deployed throughout the day.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper later announced that "in response to recent events" in Iraq, and at Trump's direction, he authorized the immediate deployment of an infantry battalion of about 750 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to the Middle East. He did not specify their destination, but a U.S. official familiar with the decision said they will go to Kuwait.
 

Esper said additional soldiers from the 82nd Airborne's quick-deployment brigade, known officially as its Immediate Response Force, are prepared to deploy over the next several days. The U.S. official, who provided unreleased details on condition of anonymity, said the full brigade of about 4,000 soldiers may deploy.

According to the U.S. Army's website, the 82nd Airborne Division is "a force prepared to respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours."

"This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action taken in response to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities, such as we witnessed in Baghdad today," Esper said in a written statement. "The United States will protect our people and interests anywhere they are found around the world."
The 750 soldiers deploying immediately are in addition to 14,000 U.S. troops who have deployed to the Gulf region since May in response to concerns about Iranian aggression, including its alleged sabotage of commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf

Tuesday's breach of the embassy compound in Baghdad, which caused no known U.S. casualties or evacuations, revealed growing strains between Washington and Baghdad, raising questions about the future of the U.S. military mission there. The U.S. has about 5,200 troops in Iraq, mainly to train Iraqi forces and help them combat Islamic State extremists.

The breach followed American airstrikes Sunday that killed 25 fighters of an Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. said those strikes were in retaliation for last week's killing of an another site and the wounding of American and Iraqi troops in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that the U.S. blamed on the militia. The American strikes angered the Iraqi government, which called them an unjustified violation of its sovereignty.

Trump blamed Iran for the embassy breach and called on Iraq to protect the diplomatic mission even as the U.S. reinforced the compound with Marines from Kuwait.

 

Iran killed an another site, wounding many. We strongly responded, and always will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible. In addition, we expect Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy, and so notified!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2019


"Iran killed an another site, wounding many," he tweeted from his estate in Florida. "We strongly responded, and always will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible. In addition, we expect Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy, and so notified!"

Even as Trump has argued for removing U.S. troops from Mideast conflicts, he also has singled out Iran as a malign influence in the region. After withdrawing the U.S. in 2018 from an international agreement that exchanged an easing of sanctions for curbs on Iran's nuclear program, Trump ratcheted up sanctions.

Those economic penalties, including a virtual shut-off of Iranian oil exports, are aimed at forcing Iran to negotiate a broader nuclear deal. But critics say that pressure has pushed Iranian leaders into countering with a variety of military attacks in the Gulf.
 

Until Sunday's U.S. airstrikes, Trump had been measured in his response to Iranian provocations. In June, he abruptly called off U.S. military strikes on Iranian targets in retaliation for the downing of an American drone.

Robert Ford, a retired U.S. diplomat who served five years in Baghdad and then became ambassador in Syria, said Iran's allies in the Iraqi parliament may be able to harness any surge in anger among Iraqis toward the United States to force U.S. troops to leave the country. Ford said Trump miscalculated by approving Sunday's airstrikes on Kataeb Hezbollah positions in Iraq and Syria - strikes that drew a public rebuke from the Iraqi government and seem to have triggered Tuesday's embassy attack.

"The Americans fell into the Iranian trap," Ford said, with airstrikes that turned some Iraqi anger toward the U.S. and away from Iran and the increasingly unpopular Iranian-backed Shiite militias.

The tense situation in Baghdad appeared to upset Trump's vacation routine in Florida, where he is spending the holidays.

Trump spent just under an hour at his private golf club in West Palm Beach before returning to his Mar-a-Lago resort in nearby Palm Beach. He had spent nearly six hours at his golf club on each of the previous two days. Trump spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi and emphasized the need for Iraq to protect Americans and their facilities in the country, said White House spokesman Hogan Gidley.

Trump is under pressure from some in Congress to take a hard-line approach to Iranian aggression, which the United States says included an unprecedented drone and missile attack on the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry in September. More recently, Iran-backed militias in Iraq have conducted numerous rocket attacks on bases hosting U.S. forces.

Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican and supporter of Trump's Iran policy, called the embassy breach "yet another reckless escalation" by Iran.

Tuesday's attack was carried out by members of the Iran-supported Kataeb Hezbollah militia. Dozens of militiamen and their supporters smashed a main door to the compound and set fire to a reception area, but they did not enter the main buildings.

Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, blamed Iran for the episode and faulted Trump for his "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran.

"The results so far have been more threats against international commerce, emboldened and more violent proxy attacks across the Middle East, and now, the death of an American citizen in Iraq," Menendez said, referring to the rocket attack last week.
 

By early evening Tuesday, the mob had retreated from the compound but set up several tents outside for an intended sit-in. Dozens of yellow flags belonging to Iran-backed Shiite militias fluttered atop the reception area and were plastered along the embassy's concrete wall along with anti-U.S. graffiti. American Apache helicopters flew overhead and dropped flares over the area in what the U.S. military called a "show of force."

The U.S. also was sending 100 or more additional Marines to the embassy compound to support its defenses.

The embassy breach was seen by some analysts as affirming their view that it is folly for the U.S. to keep forces in Iraq after having eliminated the Islamic State group's territorial hold in the country.

A U.S. withdrawal from Iraq is also a long-term hope of Iran, noted Paul Salem, president of the Washington-based Middle East Institute.

And it's always possible Trump would "wake up one morning and make that decision" to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq, as he announced earlier with the U.S. military presence in neighboring Syria, Salem said. Trump's Syria decision triggered the resignation of his first defense secretary, retired Gen. Jim Mattis, but the president later amended his decision and about 1,200 U.S. troops remain in Syria.

Trump's best weapon with Iran is the one he's already using - the sanctions, said Salem. He and Ford said Trump would do best to keep resisting Iran's attempt to turn the Iran-U.S. conflict into a full-blown military one. The administration should also make a point of working with the Iraqi government to deal with the militias, Ford said.

For the president, Iran's attacks - directly and now through proxies in Iraq - have "been working that nerve," Salem said. "Now they really have Trump's attention."

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Associated Press writers Matthew Lee, Darlene Superville and Sagar Meghani contributed to this report.
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Ali Fadel, an expert and professor of international law, confirmed today, Wednesday, that Iraq would endanger its international reputation if he tried to cancel the security agreement signed between him and the United States of America, under pressure from "militias."

Fadel told Al-Akhbariya that "canceling the security agreement between Baghdad and Washington will not be easy because it contains conditions for not amending it except with the consent of the two parties."

He added: "And if Iraq decides to cancel it, then this means that it will put itself in direct confrontation with the Americans," noting that "this will result in Iraq losing the efforts of the international coalition against the American-led ISIS."

 And between the expert, that there is "a possibility that the international reputation of Iraq would be endangered in the event that it canceled a security agreement with a major country under the pressure of the militias."

It is noteworthy that there are attempts and discussions by some political blocs loyal to Iran in Iraq, to put forward a project to cancel or amend the security agreement between Baghdad and Washington signed in 2008, and the most prominent of these blocks are "Al-Fath" which includes the coalition of the rule of law and the League of the Righteous and the Badr Organization and other parties.

It also called on "Hezbollah Brigades" to cancel the security agreement signed between Iraq and America, after the air strikes carried out by the United States on the military headquarters of the battalions in Anbar and the Iraqi-Syrian borders.

"The security agreement allows the Americans to have a military presence, but it does not allow them to take Iraq as a base to attack others," Kataeb spokesman said, explaining, in a statement to the Iranian "Tasnim" agency, that "America has violated this agreement, which must be canceled."

Mohy called for the expulsion of the American forces, whether by political or parliamentary action, stressing the need to work to "force the Americans out."

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MV-22 Ospreys drop SPMAGTF-CR-CC 19.2 Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
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U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys drop off Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) 19.2 Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 31, 2019.

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Crisis Response Marines Sent To U.S. Embassy In Baghdad
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U.S. Marines assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAFTF-CR-CC) 19.2, prepare to deploy from Kuwait in support of a crisis response mission on December 31, 2019. Approximately 100 Marines were deployed to protect the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq after protesters stormed the embassy gates trying to get inside of the perimeter. The protests are a reaction to U.S. airstrikes on Iranian backed militia. The U.S. airstrikes were a response to earlier rocket attacks by the militia which killed an another site and injured several U.S. service members.

Film Credits: U.S. Marine Corps Video by Sgt. Robert Gavaldon and Sgt. David Bickel, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response - Central Command
 

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21 minutes ago, siberian_shaddow said:

Ty Yota. And hope you and your family have a great New year.

Thank you and back at you, Happy New Year siberian and all of DV...Without going into detail my Family could use the Power of Prayer for Healing, Comfort, along with the Troops and everyone everyday struggles. 

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23 minutes ago, yota691 said:

Thank you and back at you, Happy New Year siberian and all of DV...Without going into detail my Family could use the Power of Prayer for Healing, Comfort, along with the Troops and everyone everyday struggles. 

Yota, my prayers will be going out for you and your family. Thanks for all the hard work you have done keeping us informed with the news!

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30 minutes ago, yota691 said:

Thank you and back at you, Happy New Year siberian and all of DV...Without going into detail my Family could use the Power of Prayer for Healing, Comfort, along with the Troops and everyone everyday struggles. 

 

I will say a Prayer for you and your Family Yota.  May God heal and comfort you in your time of need.  

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Happy New Year to all at DV! Prayers for a wonderful New Year.

 

 

 

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In the picture, the Minister of the Interior supervises the withdrawal of protesters in front of the American embassy

 

 

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THE WORLD

16:58 01.01.2020(Updated 17:12 01.01.2020)

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The media confirmed, today, Wednesday, the withdrawal of protesters from the vicinity of the American embassy in Baghdad.

Anatolia news agency reported that the protesters had completely withdrawn from the vicinity of the American embassy in Baghdad.

# Urgent | A complete withdrawal of protesters from the vicinity of the American embassy in # Baghdad (Anatolia correspondent)

- ANADOLU AGENCY (AR) (@aa_arabic) January 1, 2020

Earlier today, Iraqi Foreign Minister Muhammad Ali al-Hakim confirmed that "the message of the protesters in front of the American embassy in Baghdad has arrived," stressing that "the safety of their withdrawal has become a necessity."

Al-Hakim said, in a tweet through his official account on "Twitter": "The protection of diplomats, diplomatic missions and their embassies remains the responsibility of Iraq, which it has pledged to agree to the Geneva Convention."

He announced that he had spoken with the Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of the armed forces, Adel Abdel Mahdi, about ending the protests in front of the American embassy and the safety of employees and facilities, explaining that the message of the protesters had arrived and the safety of their withdrawal became a necessity.

The protection of diplomats, diplomatic missions and their embassies remains the responsibility of Iraq pledged to agree to the Geneva Convention.
I spoke with the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces about ending protests in front of the American embassy and the safety of employees and facilities.
The message of the protesters arrived and the safety of their withdrawal became a necessity

- Muhammad Ali Al-Hakim (@maalhakim) January 1, 2020

Yesterday, Tuesday, dozens of protesters tried to storm the American embassy in Baghdad, setting fire to two gates and observation towers, before the riot police managed to drive them away from the embassy vicinity.

This development comes in response to American raids that targeted, last Sunday, sites of the Iraqi "Hezbollah Brigades" of the "Popular Mobilization", in Anbar province, western Iraq, which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries from the brigades.

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