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The Iran & Syria War
By: patrick jane Date: May 14, 2019, 12:18 pm
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US B-52 bombers send warning message to Iran
The State Department says Secretary Pompeo is meeting with the
NATO secretary general and the foreign ministers from Germany,
France and the U.K.; Rich Edson reports. #AmericasNewsroom
#FoxNews
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Re: The Iran War 2019
By: patrick jane Date: May 14, 2019, 12:19 pm
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Iran-US tensions are reaching new heights – and neither is
likely to blink
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Long-term standoff threatens to turn into crisis after alleged
sabotage of two Saudi tankers
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Iranian demonstrators burn a makeshift US flag during a rally
in Tehran last week. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
A festering four-year war, crippling sanctions, threats to
maritime oil trade and a US naval battlegroup steaming for the
Persian Gulf. Such developments were troubling enough, before
two Saudi tankers were reportedly sabotaged off the UAE coast on
Sunday – a development set to ratchet tensions between Tehran
and Washington to new and combustible highs.
With Riyadh claiming significant hull damage to its ships and
the UAE claiming the damage was done inside its territorial
waters, what last week was a looming standoff is now a real-time
crisis with potent implications for both global energy security
and regional stability.
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, staring down Iran has been
top of the agenda among many to have passed through the
revolving door of his inner circle. For the current uber-hawks,
the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the national
security adviser, John Bolton, there has hardly been a higher
calling. Both have been pivotal in focusing Trump on Iran, and
imposing new comprehensive sanctions on its economy. And both
drove the bellicose rhetoric that last week spelled out the same
scenario to which the region awoke on Monday.
According to Riyadh, one of the “sabotaged” tankers was en route
to a Saudi port to upload oil to be exported to the US. Stopping
such a shipment would be consistent with an act of revenge for
crippling Iranian exports and for making good on threats to
disrupt global energy routes – although on Monday Iran
vehemently denied playing a role.
Bolton’s prediction of a “credible threat” from Iran, or its
proxies, to the oil interests of Washington, or its allies,
however looks prophetic in the royal courts of the Gulf. And
what regional officials are calling a “terrorist attack” is
certain to similarly energise a White House that has at times
appeared to be itching for a confrontation with a foe it now
faces in most corners of the Middle East.
Iran has steadily become the sum of all fears in the eyes of the
US and its regional allies; its creeping influence across the
Arab world, belligerence towards Israel and perceived readiness
to act on its threats to a decades old regional order, which –
not without irony – was upended by the US invasion of Iraq.
Trump’s backers ignore the Bush administration’s intervention,
blaming instead Barack Obama’s pivot towards Iran and his
signature nuclear deal for kickstarting Iran’s adventurism.
While Obama’s gestures were hardly seen in Tehran as
trust-building measures and did nothing to slow a regional
consolidation, Iran’s ascendancy started before him and has
continued since.
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Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard arrive for a
ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic
Revolution in February 2019. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA
Tehran’s view has been rather different. It views the US as a
capricious actor whose presence and interventions has
destabilised the region for decades. In Trump’s America, it sees
a player with the same sort of ideological zeal that it is
accused of wielding itself. A self appointed global sheriff not
worthy of the badge and to whom it can never bow.
The ill-fated reality of 2003 gave Tehran a bridgehead in Iraq
and a springboard into Syria that, nearly eight years into the
civil war, has brought the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to
within striking distance of Israel’s north. Iran’s proxies have
also helped weigh down Saudi Arabia in Yemen, lay the
foundations for a parallel state in Iraq and energise a still
rumbling opposition movement in Shia-majority Bahrain.
The loaded geopolitics have rarely strayed far from oil though.
And with Iran’s embattled economy dependent on oil exports and
the US once again enthusiastic for Saudi crude, a flashpoint in
the Strait of Hormuz, through which 35% of the world’s oil is
shipped, has long been likely.
Tensions have been boiling since the Trump administration’s
decision to lift sanctions waivers from eight countries that
import Iranian oil. The stated goal of this was to collapse
Iran’s exports to “zero”. Exports had already taken a hit when
Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal signed by his predecessor
last November – partly in the hope of renegotiating a better
deal. Ever since, Iran has prevaricated on its own commitment to
a multilateral pact, which delivered revenue streams and global
legitimacy, albeit briefly. Last week, Iran said it would no
longer honour parts of the deal and had no interest in
discussing a revised version.
Several things are abundantly clear though; sanctions, including
banking restrictions, are hitting the Iranian economy hard,
limiting its capacity to sustain its people, or allies,
including Hezbollah in Lebanon, where fighters have taken
substantial pay cuts in recent months. More importantly though,
Iran cannot let itself be seen to capitulate to the US moves. To
do so would risk far more than its post-2003 gains.
Washington appears to be betting on just such a surrender, and
has pushed brinkmanship to its limits. On Monday, it warned US
citizens in Iraq and elsewhere in the region to be vigilant. The
risks of miscalculation on either side are higher than they’ve
been in the past 16 years.
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Re: The Iran War 2019
By: patrick jane Date: June 11, 2019, 8:54 pm
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Iran's Zarif warns US 'cannot expect to stay safe'
Foreign minister issues warning over 'economic war' being
conducted against Islamic Republic through US sanctions.
Iran's foreign minister has warned the United States that it
"cannot expect to stay safe" after starting what he called an
"economic war" against his country.
Mohammad Javad Zarif made the comments on Monday during a joint
press conference with his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, who
was visiting Tehran in an attempt to defuse regional tensions.
Friction between Tehran and Washington ratcheted up last month,
a year after US President Donald Trump's decision to pull
Washington out of a 2015 nuclear deal brokered between Iran and
world powers and reimpose sweeping sanctions on Tehran.
Under the deal, which was signed in Vienna by the US, France,
Britain, Germany, China, Russia and Iran, the Islamic Republic
agreed to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions
relief.
The sanctions bar Iran from accessing the US financial system or
trading in US dollars.
"Mr Trump himself has announced that the US has launched an
economic war against Iran," Zarif told reporters, speaking
alongside Maas. "The only solution for reducing tensions in this
region is stopping that economic war."
He also warned: "Whoever starts a war with us will not be the
one who finishes it".
Since its unilateral withdrawal, the Trump administration has
pursued a "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran, which it
accuses of being a destabilising actor in the Middle East. In
recent weeks, it has also sent additional military forces to the
Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and
Patriot missiles, in response to unspecified Iranian threats to
US troops and interests in the region.
Describing his talks with Maas as "frank and serious", Zarif
said Germany and the European Union could have an "important
role" to play in defusing the situation and noted that "Tehran
will cooperate with EU signatories of the deal to save it".
For his part, Maas said that Germany, France and Britain were
doing their "utmost to prevent the failure of the deal", which
is formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA).
"We won't be able to do miracles, but we are trying as best as
we can to do prevent its failure," Maas said.
The other signatories to the deal, China and Russia, have stated
their desire to keep the JCPOA alive.
Saad Jawad, a senior visiting fellow at the London School of
Economics' Middle East Centre, said Tehran expected the
remaining signatories to the deal to work harder to salvage it.
"Iran thinks that because the Europeans were signatories to the
original 2015 agreement, that they should do everything in their
power to erase all the sanctions imposed by the United States,
or at least avoid them, because Iran has not harmed or gone
against the agreement," he told Al Jazeera.
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In an effort to protect at least some of Iran's economy and keep
the nuclear deal alive, France, Britain and Germany set up a
special-purpose vehicle for facilitating non-dollar trade with
Iran.
The three EU members maintain the nuclear pact remains the best
way to limit Iran's enrichment of uranium, a potential pathway
to the development of nuclear weapons, and have been trying to
get Tehran to keep to its commitments under the deal.
Maas said the payment system, known as INSTEX, (Instrument in
Support of Trade Exchanges) should soon be operational after
months of work.
"This is an instrument of a new kind so it's not straightforward
to operationalise it," he said, pointing to the complexity of
trying to install a totally new payment system.
"But all the formal requirements are in place now, and so I'm
assuming we'll be ready to use it in the foreseeable future,"
added Mass about the system for barter-based trade with Iran.
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Re: The Iran War 2019
By: patrick jane Date: June 15, 2019, 12:13 pm
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Tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman highlight point of leverage for
Iran
Tensions are high in the Middle East after attacks on two oil
tankers near the Persian Gulf that U.S. officials are blaming on
Iran. U.S. sanctions on Iran already had raised the potential
risk of a response in the region. Charlie D'Agata reports from
along the Gulf of Oman and explains why this area is such a
flashpoint.
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LONDON — Explosions crippled two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman
on Thursday in what the United States called “unprovoked
attacks” by Iran, raising alarms about immediate security and
potential military conflict in a vital passageway for a third of
the world’s petroleum.
Iran called the accusations part of a campaign of American
disinformation and “warmongering.”
The explosions forced the crews of both vessels to evacuate and
left at least one ablaze, and hours later the causes were still
under investigation. Yet the backdrop of steeply rising threats
between President Trump and Iranian leaders gave the stricken
ships a grave significance even before the facts became clear.
[Read: Operator says a ‘flying object’ struck one tanker, not a
mine]
By afternoon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that American
intelligence agencies had concluded Tehran was behind the
disabling of both ships. He pointed to the weapons used, the
expertise and resources required and the similarity to other
recent attacks attributed to Iran.
The most compelling evidence to support Mr. Pompeo’s claim was
video footage released Thursday night by the United States
Central Command. A military spokesman, Capt. Bill Urban, said
the video showed an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol
boat pulling up alongside the Kokuka Courageous, one of the
stricken ships, several hours after the initial explosion, and
removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
Also on Thursday night, the United States military released two
photographs of the ship’s hull, showing damage and what it said
was likely the unexploded mine.
“Taken as a whole, these unprovoked attacks present a clear
threat to international peace and security,” Mr. Pompeo told a
news conference in Washington.
[More: “Iran did do it,” President Trump said in an interview
Friday.]
Senior American officials had already blamed Iran for similar
attacks last month against four tankers on the same waterway.
Iranian officials, who denied any involvement in those attacks,
also rejected assertions they were behind the events on Thursday
and said Iran had been framed.
“Suspicious doesn’t begin to describe what likely transpired
this morning,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister,
wrote on Twitter. Mr. Pompeo, firing back at his news
conference, said Mr. Zarif “may think this is funny, but no one
else in the world does.”
The Kokuka Courageous was about 20 miles off the Iranian coast
when it transmitted an emergency call for help after an initial
explosion. When the crew surveyed the damage from the first
explosion, they saw a second unexploded mine attached to the
hull and evacuated the ship, according to the American
officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a
sensitive intelligence matter.
The confrontation also played out at the United Nations in a
meeting of the Security Council, where the acting United States
ambassador, Jonathan Cohen, told other members that Iran was
behind the attacks. Iran’s United Nations mission issued a
statement afterward denouncing the “inflammatory remarks” by the
American representative, calling them part of “another
Iranophobic campaign” of disinformation.
“The U.S. and its regional allies must stop warmongering and put
an end to mischievous plots as well as false flag operations in
the region,” the Iranian statement said.
Earlier Thursday, the United Nations secretary general, António
Guterres, expressed “deep concern” that the new episode might
lead to a military escalation.
[Read more about the narrow waterway that is the world’s most
important oil route.]
Besides its importance as a petroleum highway, the Persian Gulf
also divides bitter and heavily armed rivals, with Iran on one
side and the American-backed Arab monarchies of Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates on the other.
The two sides have fought for years through surrogate forces in
neighboring countries, including Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and
Bahrain. Saudi and Emirati forces have been battling directly
for more than four years to roll back a takeover of Yemen by a
faction aligned with Iran.
Anxieties over the shared dependence on the vulnerable Persian
Gulf shipping lanes have always been central to their
animosities, and a commitment to guaranteeing the flow of oil
through the same channels is behind the substantial American
military presence in the region.
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Iranian officials on Thursday suggested the new attacks might be
the product of an elaborate conspiracy by their enemies,
seemingly pointing to American allies like Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates or Israel, which have long urged Washington
to take a more muscular approach to Iran.
But many analysts said there was a growing consensus in the West
that Iran had been behind last month’s attacks, which took place
near the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. And they
argued that Iran appeared to be seeking to demonstrate it could
imperil the world’s oil markets, but without leaving the kind of
fingerprints that could trigger American military retaliation.
“As long as there is significant ambiguity the attacks won’t
produce a casus belli,” or cause for war, said Jack Watling, a
researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
“But Iran is demonstrating its capabilities. It is saying, ‘We
can impose a cost on our adversaries in this confrontation, and
it will be high.’”
Crude oil prices rose more than 3 percent in response to the
crippling of the two ships on Thursday, indirectly boosting
Iran’s revenue as an oil producer.
The initial White House response on Thursday was measured. Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Mr.
Trump had been briefed and that the “U.S. government is
providing assistance and will continue to assess the situation.”
It was only a few hours later that Mr. Pompeo publicly blamed
Iran.
The escalation came against the backdrop of a visit to Iran by
the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, who was hoping to
de-escalate tensions between Tehran and Washington and avert any
“accidental clashes.”
Mr. Abe was carrying a note from Mr. Trump to Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who rebuffed the overture. “I
do not see Trump as worthy of any message exchange, and I do not
have any reply for him, now or in future,” Mr. Khamenei said
Thursday after meeting with Mr. Abe, according to the
ayatollah’s website.
The animosity between Washington and Tehran began rising a year
ago after President Trump withdrew the United States from a 2015
deal with international powers that limited Iran’s nuclear
activity in exchange for eased economic sanctions on the country
of 80 million people.
Then, laying out sweeping demands for Iran to alter its policies
toward the region, Mr. Trump in April ratcheted up the pressure
by imposing severe sanctions aimed at cutting off Iran’s exports
of oil, the lifeblood of the now-struggling Iranian economy. He
also designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, a part of the
military, as a terrorist group.
In May, citing unspecified warnings of imminent Iranian attacks
on American allies or interests, the Trump administration
announced it was dispatching an aircraft carrier group to the
Persian Gulf as a deterrent.
“If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran,”
Mr. Trump said on Twitter last month. “Never threaten the United
States again!”
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Iranian leaders, in response, have threatened to block the
Strait of Hormuz, a potential Persian Gulf chokepoint. After
complying with the nuclear pact for a year even after the
American withdrawal, Iran has also raised the possibility of
breaching the accord by taking initial steps to expand its
supply of enriched uranium.
Some Iranian allies around the region have stepped up their
attacks on allies of Washington, fueling fears of a wider
conflict. The Houthi faction in Yemen, which is backed by Iran,
has launched attacks on Saudi oil pipelines and other targets,
and this week a Houthi missile hit the arrivals hall of a Saudi
airport, injuring 26 people, according to Saudi news reports.
The attacks in May on the four tankers near Fujairah were
relatively minor, causing only limited damage to the hulls. An
international investigation presented to the United Nations
later concluded that the damage was done by divers deployed from
small “fast boats” who had placed limpet mines against the
hulls.
On a visit to the United Arab Emirates about two weeks ago, John
R. Bolton, President Trump’s national security adviser, said
Iran was “almost certainly” responsible. A few days later, Mr.
Pompeo called the attacks “efforts by the Iranians to raise the
price of crude oil.”
The explosions that disabled the tankers in the Gulf of Oman on
Thursday were far more severe.
Both took place around dawn, with distress calls at 6:12 a.m.
and 7 a.m., according to a statement from the United States
Fifth Fleet, which said the U.S.S. Bainbridge, a guided missile
destroyer, was “rendering assistance.”
A Norwegian company that owns one of the ships, the Front
Altair, confirmed that it was on fire. The crews of both vessels
— about 23 in one and 21 in the other — were evacuated in
lifeboats.
The owners and operators of both vessels described the incidents
as deliberate attacks.
The Front Altair, registered in the Marshall Islands, was
chartered by the CPC Corporation, the Taiwanese oil company, to
carry naphtha, a petroleum product, from the Emirati port of
Ruwais to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The Kokuka Courageous was carrying methanol, headed from the
Saudi port of Al Jubail to Singapore. Yutaka Katada, the
president of the ship’s operator, Kokuka Sangyo, told a news
conference that its Filipino crew had abandoned ship in
lifeboats after what he described as two attacks three hours
apart.
Shipping industry representatives underscored the channel’s
critical importance. “Some 30 percent of the world’s crude oil
passes through the Straits,” Paolo d’Amico, the chairman of the
International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, said in
a statement. “If the waters are becoming unsafe, the supply to
the entire Western world could be at risk.”
Reporting was contributed by Eric Schmitt and Edward Wong from
Washington, Ben Dooley and Makiko Inoue from Tokyo, Vivian Yee
from Beirut and Rick Gladstone from New York.
A version of this article appears in print on June 13, 2019, on
Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Pompeo Blames
Tehran For Blasts on 2 Tankers And Sees ‘Clear Threat’. Order
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Re: The Iran War 2019
By: patrick jane Date: June 20, 2019, 7:37 pm
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Congressional leaders briefed on Iran's attack on U.S. drone
President Trump and top congressional leaders were briefed at
the White House Thursday after Iran shot down an unmanned U.S.
military drone. CBS News White House correspondent Ben Tracy
discussed the latest on CBSN.
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Re: The Iran War 2019
By: patrick jane Date: June 24, 2019, 4:08 pm
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The Truth About the Gulf of Oman Attacks and War with Iran
Did Iran really attack a U.S. oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman or
was this another false flag event propped up to push for war
with Iran, just like the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam? The crew of
the oil tanker was rescued by Iran and the crew members thanked
Iran for saving them, yet our leaders say Iran attacked the
tankers?
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Re: The Iran War 2019
By: patrick jane Date: October 16, 2019, 3:06 am
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Re: The Iran War 2019
By: guest8 Date: October 16, 2019, 9:22 pm
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Little early don't you think for the goblins to come out...still
got half a month left.
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Re: The Iran & Syria War 2019
By: patrick jane Date: January 3, 2020, 2:14 pm
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US kills Iran’s most powerful general in Baghdad airstrike
BAGHDAD (AP) — 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
region.
Full Coverage: Iran
The targeted killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of
Iran’s elite Quds Force, could draw forceful Iranian retaliation
against American interests in the region and spiral into a far
larger conflict between the U.S. and Iran, endangering U.S.
troops in Iraq, Syria and beyond.
The Defense Department said it killed Soleimani because he “was
actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and
service members in Iraq and throughout the region.” It also
accused Soleimani of approving the attacks on the U.S. Embassy
in Baghdad earlier this week.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that a
“harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S.
Iranian state TV carried a statement by Khamenei also calling
Soleimani “the international face of resistance.” Khamenei
declared three days of public mourning for the general’s death.
Also, an adviser to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned
President Donald Trump of retaliation from Tehran. “Trump
through his gamble has dragged the U.S. into the most dangerous
situation in the region,” Hessameddin Ashena wrote on the social
media app Telegram. “Whoever put his foot beyond the red line
should be ready to face its consequences.”
Iranian state television later in a commentary called Trump’s
order to kill Soleimani “the biggest miscalculation by the U.S.”
in the years since World War II. “The people of the region will
no longer allow Americans to stay,” the TV said.
The airport strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy
commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular
Mobilization Forces, and five others, including the PMF’s
airport protocol officer, Mohammed Reda, Iraqi officials said.
Trump was vacationing on his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, but
sent out a tweet of an American flag.
The dramatic attack comes at the start of a year in which Trump
faces both a Senate trial following his impeachment by the U.S.
House and a re-election campaign. It marks a potential turning
point in the Middle East and represents a drastic change for
American policy toward Iran after months of tensions.
Tehran shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone and seized
oil tankers. The U.S. also blames Iran for a series of attacks
targeting tankers, as well as a September assault on Saudi
Arabia’s oil industry that temporarily halved its production.
The tensions take root in Trump’s decision in May 2018 to
withdraw the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers,
struck under his predecessor, Barack Obama.
The 62-year-old Soleimani was the target of Friday’s U.S.
attack, which was conducted by an armed American drone,
according to a U.S. official. His vehicle was struck on an
access road near the Baghdad airport.
A senior Iraqi security official said the airstrike took place
near the cargo area after Soleimani left his plane and joined
al-Muhandis and others in a car. The official said the plane had
arrived from either Lebanon or Syria.
Two officials from the PMF said Suleimani’s body was torn to
pieces in the attack, while they did not find the body of
al-Muhandis. A senior politician said Soleimani’s body was
identified by the ring he wore.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were
not authorized to give official statements.
It’s unclear what legal authority the U.S. relied on to carry
out the attack. American presidents claim broad authority to act
without the approval of the Congress when U.S. personnel or
interests are facing an imminent threat. The Pentagon did not
provide evidence to back up its assertion that Soleimani was
planning new attacks against Americans.
Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Trump owes a
full explanation to Congress and the American people. “The
present authorizations for use of military force in no way cover
starting a possible new war. This step could bring the most
consequential military confrontation in decades,” Blumenthal
said.
But Trump allies were quick to praise the action. “To the
Iranian government: if you want more, you will get more,”
tweeted South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham.
For Iran, the killing represents more than just the loss of a
battlefield commander, but also a cultural icon who represented
national pride and resilience while facing U.S. sanctions. While
careful to avoid involving himself in politics, Soleimani’s
profile rose sharply as U.S. and Israeli officials blamed him
for Iranian proxy attacks abroad.
While Iran’s conventional military has suffered under 40 years
of American sanctions, the Guard has built up a ballistic
missile program. It also can strike asymmetrically in the region
through forces like Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi
rebels. The U.S. long has blamed Iran for car bombings and
kidnappings it never claimed.
As the head of the Quds, or Jersualem, Force of Iran’s
paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani led all of its
expeditionary forces and frequently shuttled between Iraq,
Lebanon and Syria. Quds Force members have deployed into Syria’s
long war to support President Bashar Assad, as well as into Iraq
in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled dictator
Saddam Hussein, a longtime foe of Tehran.
Soleimani rose to prominence by advising forces fighting the
Islamic State group in Iraq and in Syria on behalf of the
embattled Assad.
U.S. officials say the Guard under Soleimani taught Iraqi
militants how to manufacture and use especially deadly roadside
bombs against U.S. troops after the invasion of Iraq. Iran has
denied that. Soleimani himself remains popular among many
Iranians, who see him as a selfless hero fighting Iran’s enemies
abroad.
Soleimani had been rumored dead several times, including in a
2006 airplane crash that killed other military officials in
northwestern Iran and following a 2012 bombing in Damascus that
killed top aides of Assad. Rumors circulated in November 2015
that Soleimani was killed or seriously wounded leading forces
loyal to Assad as they fought around Syria’s Aleppo.
Soleimani’s killing follows the New Year’s Eve attack by
Iran-backed militias on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. The two-day
embassy attack, which ended Wednesday, prompted Trump to order
about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East.
It also prompted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to postpone his
trip to Ukraine and four other countries “to continue monitoring
the ongoing situation in Iraq and ensure the safety and security
of Americans in the Middle East,” State Department spokeswoman
Morgan Ortagus said Wednesday.
The breach at the embassy followed U.S. airstrikes Sunday that
killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the
Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. military said the strikes were in
retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in
a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that the U.S. blamed
on the militia.
U.S. officials have suggested they were prepared to engage in
further retaliatory attacks in Iraq.
“The game has changed,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said
Thursday, telling reporters that violent acts by Iran-backed
Shiite militias in Iraq — including the Dec. 27 rocket attack
that killed one American — will be met with U.S. military force.
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Karam reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Robert
Burns and Zeke Miller in Washington, Jon Gambrell in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, and Bassem
Mroue in Beirut contributed reporting.
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Re: The Iran & Syria War 2019
By: patrick jane Date: January 7, 2020, 10:09 pm
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