An American newspaper warns of a catastrophic situation if Iraq’s exception to sanctions on Iran ends

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For fear of American aviation ... militias close their headquarters in Baghdad and transfer their weapons to other places

 

 

 

3rd January, 2020

 

 

The London-based newspaper, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, revealed today, Friday, that armed militias have closed their headquarters in the capital, Baghdad, for fear that American aviation targets them, after the killing of the leader of the popular crowd, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhannadi, and the commander of the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, by air strikes near Baghdad airport at dawn Friday.

The newspaper, quoting high-ranking security sources, said that "militias affiliated with the "popular crowd" started since Friday morning to vacate their headquarters in the neighborhoods of Al-Jadiriya, Karrada, Al-Arasat and Palestine Street in Baghdad, and transferred the weapons of these headquarters to safer areas, indicating that other armed factions have eased From the presence of its elements.

She added: "The roads leading to the militia headquarters," Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Badr, Al-Najaba, the Sayyid Al-Shuhadaa Brigades and the Hezbollah Brigades" were closed in Jadriya, stressing that "some militia leaders have traveled to Iran and the southern provinces because they believe that the capital Baghdad has become an insecure area."

[Pitcher]

Well, you can run but you cannot hide.  Take your sorry butts back to Iran.

 

 

6 minutes ago, DinarThug said:

some militia leaders have traveled to Iran and the southern provinces because they believe that the capital Baghdad has become an insecure area."

 

[yota691]

US prepares for potential Iranian escalation and Iraq expulsion

 

 

Jack Detsch January 3, 2020

 

ARTICLE SUMMARY

The Donald Trump administration is bracing for potential Iranian attacks throughout the Middle East after a Pentagon strike killed the paramilitary leader Qasem Soleimani Jan. 3.

 

 US Marine Corps/Sgt. Kyle C. Talbot/Handout via REUTERS

US Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) 19.2, reinforce the US embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 3, 2020.

 

The Donald Trump administration and American partners are bracing for potential Iranian attacks throughout the Middle East after a Pentagon strike killed paramilitary leader Qasem Soleimani on Friday.

Former US officials said the death of Soleimani, who was considered a national hero in Iran after rising from division command during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s to commanding Iran’s military and paramilitary groups around Iraq, Syria and Yemen, could compel a range of covert or overt responses.

“This response or [these] responses could happen anywhere,” said Michael Mulroy, who until December served as the Pentagon’s top Middle East official. “Between the IRGC Quds Force and their intelligence service, they have worldwide reach and will likely not exclude American civilians as targets.”

Mulroy, who advocated for the United States to utilize irregular warfare tactics, cyber attacks and information operations to deter Iranian aggression at the Defense Department and now serves as an ABC News analyst, said Soleimani's death will "significantly increase the likelihood" of a vote in Iraq's council of representatives to expel more than 5,000 US forces in the country, which "may lead to more instability and less sovereignty in their country."

 

The fear that American troops fighting the Islamic State in Iraq could soon be forced to leave was echoed by current US officials who spoke to Al-Monitor after Baghdad released a statement Jan. 3 calling the strike that killed Soleimani a breach of Iraqi sovereignty.

“I cannot imagine us being allowed to stay in Iraq,” a US official told Al-Monitor, adding, “And Iran will definitely look to take action against US targets.”

A senior defense official who spoke anonymously to reporters Jan. 3 would not say if the United States gave Iraq advance warning of the strikes, approved by Trump when Soleimani “arrived at a target of opportunity.”  The US had authority to strike against Soleimani before the action was taken, the official said. 

“We think this is going to be a significant disruption to ongoing plotting and planning,” the senior defense official added, to say that a potential Iranian attack staged by Soleimani was imminent and would take place in the Middle East, not against the US homeland.

Mulroy said Soleimani “orchestrated” part of the Iraq insurgency, helped “design and execute” Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown in Syria and provided support in Yemen “that made a humanitarian crisis even worse.”

But others inside the administration did not have confidence that the Pentagon would be able to contain escalation from Iran even after the death of the influential military leader largely credited with building up Tehran’s network of proxy groups in the Middle East.

“I can’t see how Iran doesn’t consider this a declaration of war,” the official, speaking not for attribution, added. The Pentagon OK’d Jan. 3 sending a brigade of 3,500 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division to Kuwait that the agency put on prepare-to-deploy orders after Iran-backed protesters breached the US Embassy in Baghdad earlier this week.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — who spent most of Jan. 3 on the phone reassuring American partners and allies unnerved by the strike — as well as other US officials refused to discuss the nature of the threats against American forces and civilians that prompted the drone strikes that took Soleimani’s life.

Though Soleimani’s successor, Ismail Qaani, threatened that the world would “see the dead bodies of Americans all over the Middle East” in retaliation for the Quds Force chief’s death, Pompeo said the United States was “prepared” and had “thought about this a great deal.”

For his part, President Trump said the US did "not seek regime change" despite the strikes and wanted to drive Iran back to the bargaining table, though European allies feared a wider escalation. "We took action last night to stop a war, we did not take action last night to start a war," Trump said on Friday from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fl., but warned Iran to stop cultivating military proxies around the region. 

But in Iraq, where the Baghdad government is under increasing pressure to expel US troops amid three months of anti-corruption protests that have forced the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, officials worried the Trump administration no longer had control of the situation.

[yota691]

04-01-2020 12:49 AM

Iran is modifying the Soleimani funeral program

 

 

Baghdad / Al-Akhbariya:
The Revolutionary Guards Public Relations Authority has published a funeral program for the funeral of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Iran, amending a previous announcement by the Soleimani family.
The authority’s statement said: The funeral of Qasim Soleimani in the city of Mashhad with Imam al-Rida on Sunday, to be held in Tehran on Monday, and then transfer his body to the city of Kerman to be buried on Tuesday.
The Soleimani family had announced earlier that Soleimani will be funeral on Sunday from the University of Tehran, where he will be prayed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei before transferring his body to his hometown in the city of Kerman to be buried there.

[yota691]

01/20/2020 12:40:53 AM1395

Sheikh Ali: US air strike on Iraq in the coming hours

 

 

Baghdad / Al-Ghad Press:  

Today, Saturday, Deputy Faik Sheikh Ali revealed the existence of a US air strike in Iraq in the coming hours.

 

Sheikh Ali said in a tweet on Twitter and followed by "Al-Ghad Press", "Oh, fire, be cold and peace for my country and my Iraqi people."

He added, "Oh God, the news of the dangerous international official who told me that a new air strike is heading towards Iraq within hours from now, because of the blanket and antagonistic statements of the militias and their threatening hollow statements."

[yota691]

Between Baghdad and Najaf .. The funeral ceremony program for the engineer and Soleimani funerals was revealed

Political | 05:56 - 01/01/2020

 

 

 

 

Baghdad - Mawazine News,
The media of the popular crowd revealed, Friday, the funeral program of the martyrs Hajj Abu Mahdi, the engineer, and Hajj Qassem Soleimani, along with a group of their comrades.
The media said in a statement received by / Mawazine News / a copy of it, that "Iraq will witness the funeral ceremonies of the martyrs leaders Hajj Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis and Hajj Qassem Soleimani tomorrow, Saturday, tomorrow."
She added, "The program begins with blessing by visiting the two Imam al-Kazimin Q. 8 am and the official funeral in the presence of leaders, officials, ambassadors and the armed forces in Al-Hassanein Square in Jadriya, up to the University of Baghdad, and heading to the holy city of Karbala, and blessing with the visit of Imam Hussein and his brother Abi Al-Fadl Al-Abbas, peace be upon them, and heading to the city of Najaf Al-Ashraf, where the pure bodies lie next to the shrine of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him.
The crowd called on all Iraqis to "participate in bidding farewell to the Mujahideen from the victory leaders over the terrorist ISIS, as well as the presence of the masses before ten o'clock in the morning so that they can participate, as the Baghdad Operations Command will cut off the roads leading to the funeral site from cars to secure the place." End 29 / H

[DinarThug]

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Hey Yo’ - Try Adding The Tag ‘Soleimani Killed’ Since U Just Changed The Name Of This Thread So That It’s Easier For Da’ Peeps To Find It !  

 

     

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FULL STATEMENT: President Trump On Military Involvement
 

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[6ly410]

PM Barzani, Pompeo Discuss Importance of De-escalating Tension in Iraq

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/kurdistan/571567

BasNews 04/01/2020 - 00:08 Published in Kurdistan

 

ERBIL - Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani discussed in a phone call with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the recent developments in Iraq, stressing on the importance of de-escalating the tensions.

"I held talks this evening with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on recent events," Barzani wrote on Twitter. "We agreed on the importance of deescalating tensions in Iraq through restraint and dialogue."

The phone call came after tensions between Iran and US dramatically increased after the killing of Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Hashd al-Shaabi, in an airstrike by the US in Baghdad on Friday morning.

Pompeo, in the meantime, thanked Barzani for "his steadfast partnership”.

"In my conversation today with Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, we discussed yesterday's defensive action and our commitment to de-escalation. I thanked him for his steadfast partnership. We agreed on the need for continued, close cooperation," the US top diplomat said on Twitter.

[6ly410]

[VIDEO] Trump on Killing of Iran’s Soleimani: We Took Action to Stop War

 

Basnews English 04/01/2020 - 00:31 Published in World

 

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/world/571568

 

ERBIL — The United States took action and killed Iran’s Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani to stop a war, not to start a war, said US President Donald Trump in an official statement from the White House.

Describing the Iranian commander as “number 1 terrorist anywhere in the world”, Trump said Solemani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but he was caught in action by the US forces.

The US president blamed Soleimani for the recent rocket attack on Kirkuk K1 military base where one US civilian contractor was killed and four other troops were wounded. He also said the assault on the US embassy in Baghdad was orchestrated by the Iranian commander.

“We take comfort of knowing that his reign of terror is over,” Trump pointed out.

“We do not seek regime change, however, the Iranian regime’s aggressions, including the use of proxy fighters to de-stabalize its neighbors must end and must end now,” he added.

 

Edited January 3, 2020 by 6ly410

[yota691]

Trump: We will pursue anyone who assaults America or our allies

Policy

03-01-2020 | 16:17

 

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US President Donald Trump threatened, Friday evening, to pursue any person "assaulting" America or its allies, while stressing that the United States does not want to change the Iranian regime, calling on it to end what he described as "terrorist behavior."

Trump said in a brief speech to reporters this evening that Soleimani should have been liquidated long ago and that could have saved many lives, noting that "America moved to stop the war and did not move to start a war."

 

Trump accused Iran using proxy fighters to destabilize neighboring countries, stressing that "it must stop
now."
Trump stressed that " the Iranian people strongly respects America does not seek to change the regime in Iran ."

He pointed out that "Soleimani was planning attacks on the imminent US soldiers and diplomats."

he said that " the recent attacks on US targets in Iraq and the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad , was under the guidance of Soleimani."

[6ly410]

 

[fancy]

39 minutes ago, yota691 said:

01/20/2020 12:40:53 AM1395

Sheikh Ali: US air strike on Iraq in the coming hours

 

 

Baghdad / Al-Ghad Press:  

Today, Saturday, Deputy Faik Sheikh Ali revealed the existence of a US air strike in Iraq in the coming hours.

 

Sheikh Ali said in a tweet on Twitter and followed by "Al-Ghad Press", "Oh, fire, be cold and peace for my country and my Iraqi people."

He added, "Oh God, the news of the dangerous international official who told me that a new air strike is heading towards Iraq within hours from now, because of the blanket and antagonistic statements of the militias and their threatening hollow statements."

Wow International fake news. President Trump has always said he's not going to lay the plans of his action in front of the world to see, unlike what Obama did with ISIS.

[6ly410]

 

Edited January 3, 2020 by 6ly410

[yota691]

Trump: We are not seeking war with Iran, but we are ready in case of necessity

 January 3, 2020 11:53 PM
direct: U.S. President Donald Trump said that the United States is not seeking war with Iran or changing its leadership, but is ready to take action if necessary.

The United States carried out an air strike on an airport Baghdad that killed the Iranian "Qassem Soleimani", commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, which contributed to the escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran.

Trump said in a televised speech today, Friday, that the strike by the United States was to stop a war, not to launch it. 

The US Department of Defense had said that the strike was intended to deter future Iranian attack plans, indicating that Washington would continue to take all necessary measures to protect its people and interests around the world.

The US President indicated that "Soleimani" was planning attacks on US diplomats and soldiers.

But Trump has stated that the United States is prepared to take any necessary action if Iran threatens the lives of Americans.

In a Tweet on Twitter earlier today, Trump said that Iran had not won any war, but also had not lost in negotiations.

 

[yota691]

New photos of the site of the US bombing of the engineer and Sulaymani

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Trump: America gives billions of dollars to Iraq annually and its people do not want Iran to control it

2020/01/03

http://almasalah.com/ar/news/185264/ترامب-امريكا-تمنح-المليارات-من-الدولارات-للعراق-سنويا-وشعبه-لا-يريد-تحكم-إيران-به

Baghdad / Obelisk: US President Donald Trump sent a message to the Iraqi people, in a series of tweets he published Friday, hours after he launched an air strike that killed the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

Trump wrote on Twitter: "The United States gives billions of dollars to Iraq annually, and for many years. This is in addition to everything we have done for them. The Iraqi people do not want Iran to control it, but in the end, it is up to it."

He added: "In the past 15 years, Iran has gained more control over Iraq, and the Iraqi people are not happy with this control. It will not end well."

Trump said in another tweet, earlier on Friday, that Soleimani "was responsible for killing a large number of demonstrators in Iran," and that "he should have been killed many years ago."

The protesters in Tahrir Square, in the center of the capital, Baghdad, in a statement published by "Al-Masala", today, Friday, condemned the cowardly terrorist attack that targeted Engineer and Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport.

On Friday, January 3, 2020, Iran's Supreme National Security Council said that the United States would not easily escape the "consequences" of this miscalculation.

The Supreme National Security Council said in a statement read "Obelisk", that "the United States will not easily escape the consequences of this miscalculation, and we hold the United States of America all the consequences of his criminal adventure. The United States will pay a high tax by assassinating Soleimani."

The Supreme National Security Council of Iran quoted Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as saying that "severe retaliation will await the perpetrators," noting that "the mixing of the blood of Iranian and Iraqi leaders in this path symbolizes the unbreakable bond between the two peoples."

In the middle of the night Thursday-Friday, American planes targeted a convoy of the Iranian Quds Force Commander, Qasim Soleimani, the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and eight other people, according to the Popular Mobilization Organization, near Baghdad International Airport.

 

[yota691]

The latest photo of the bodies of Mohandes and Slimani

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(Baghdad: Al Furat News) A picture of the body of the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Organization, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, who were killed in a raid by a US plane, spread to Baghdad airport at dawn today, Friday.
It was completed the preparations for the funeral ceremony of the martyrs of the popular crowd and engineer Soleimani, and was with them in the raid.

Saturday’s funeral will begin with official and popular ceremonies

 

[yota691]

04-01-2020 01:49 AM

Urgent: A drone targets another convoy of the crowd in Nineveh

[yota691]

An air strike targeting wheels north of Baghdad

security

03-01-2020 | 18:43

 

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A security source said, on Saturday, that an air strike targeted wheels of suspected security leaders inside the Taji district, north of the capital, Baghdad.

The source said, to Alsumaria News, that an air strike targeted after midnight, wheels inside which suspected members of the popular crowd were among the approaches of the Taji district, north of the capital, Baghdad.


The source did not give more details,

 

 

 

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[yota691]

{Al Furat News} publishes the text of the Iranian National Security Council’s response to the assassination of Soleimani

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(International: Al Furat News) The Supreme National Security Council of Iran announced in a statement issued today, Friday, that the American administration bears responsibility for all the consequences of this criminal adventure.
The Supreme National Security Council of Iran offered its condolences for the martyrdom of Lieutenant-General Qassem Soleimani and his companions, especially the martyr Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, who fought terrorism to the owner of the times and times, the leader of the Islamic revolution, fighters of the Islamic resistance, his companions ’martyrs, the relatives of the martyr, and all the Iranian people.

The statement said that the team, Qassem Soleimani, was not only a cause of Iranian glory and pride, but also for all Muslims and the weakest, who are under the yoke of injustice all over the world. The martyrdom of this giant leader in the resistance, even though it was a great loss to the Islamic world and the great Iranian people, but as the late Imam Khomeini said that every brigade falls from the hands of a capable leader, it will be raised by another leader.

The statement stated: Criminals should expect harsh revenge at the right time and place, and America must realize that it committed the biggest strategic mistake in West Asia
 and vowed that the United States will not easily escape the consequences of this miscalculation, as the leader of the revolution said, severe revenge will await the perpetrators who Their hands were stained with the blood of Major General Soleimani.
The statement stressed that the streak of jihad and resistance will continue with a double incentive, and victory will be the ally of the Mujahideen who are going in this way, and everyone who relied on these cowardly measures must know that the Islamic Republic's will to continue the policy of resistance has become stronger.
 He made it clear that this American crime was in revenge for ISIS and the Takfiri terrorists, declaring that the American regime is responsible for the consequences of this criminal adventure.
The statement considered that the mixing of the blood of Iranian and Iraqi leaders on this path symbolized the unbreakable bond between the two peoples.

 

 

 

[yota691]

Revolutionary Guards: Soleimani arrived in Baghdad with a traceable plane

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{International: Al Furat News} Ali Fadawi, the deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, revealed some details of the recent visit of the commander of the “Quds Force” of the Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, to Iraq, before his assassination.
Fadawi said that Soleimani arrived at Baghdad Airport from Syria, with a regular passenger plane that can be tracked through air navigation sites.

He pointed out that Soleimani's visit to Iraq was made at the invitation of Iraqi officials, who "have always been calling Qasim Soleimani to visit Iraq to hold meetings on various issues, and for this he was constantly visiting Iraq and his visit yesterday was at the invitation of Iraqi officials to Baghdad."

He stressed that there is no military value to the assassination of Soleimani, stressing that Iran can "strike any moving target using laser missiles launched from reconnaissance planes," saying that the operation "does not reflect the technological and military capabilities the Americans possess."

 

[new york kevin]

7 hours ago, Bama Girl said:

Please pray for our military. I just received a call from my sister telling me that my nephew, who just returned from Iraq the end of November,  has been ordered back today. He has to leave today!  The situation has rapidly escalated over there.🙁

 

Heavenly Father we lift up Bama Girls nephew and every man and woman that will be called up and placed in harmsway . May all, daily keep the full armour of God upon them. May they pray and place it on themselves daily and prior to answering duties call. We pray the Helmut of salvation, the brestplate of righteousness secured by the belt of truth, feet shorn with the preparation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the shield of faith in one hand and the sword of the Holy Spirit in the other, that they may do excellent battle against the enemy . We ask that each will have 2 Angels guarding over them, aiding further in their protection. We ask for a miracle Lord. We ask that all will come home safe, unharmed and unashamed. We declare freedom from PTS . No suicides, alcoholism or drug addictions down the road from what they have seen or had to do. Make their contributions over the enemy to be fast and accurate. May victory and peace be quick for those who defend this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. In Jesus's name we pray . Amen .

Edited January 3, 2020 by new york kevin

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