It looks like the neocons are going to get the war with Iran they’ve been lusting after for decades with America’s soldiers sacrificed on the battlefield to advance the interests of Israel.
UPDATE: The Pentagram confirmed the US carried out the attack.
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Iranian state television, citing Revolutionary Guard statement, says Gen. Qassem Soleimani — head of Iran’s elite Quds Force — has been killed in Iraq, backing up reports from Iraqi officials. http://apne.ws/Z04QGlo
Pentagon says US airstrike killed powerful Iranian general
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Pentagon said Thursday that the U.S. military has killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Donald Trump. An…
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BREAKING: The Pentagon says the U.S. military has killed Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Trump. Follow @AP‘s coverage of this developing story. http://apne.ws/8RKK3Bm
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BREAKING: #IRAQ OFFICIAL TV ANNOUNCES #IRAN IRGC LEADER QASSEM SULEIMANI IS ASSASSINATED.
ALSO KILLED HEAD OF KATAIB HEZBOLLAH ABU MEHDI MUHANDIS https://twitter.com/alarabiya_brk/status/1212902092538552320 …
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التلفزيون العراقي الرسمي يعلن مقتل أبو مهدي المهندس و قاسم سليماني #العربية_عاجل https://www.alarabiya.net
This is where #Iran‘s IRGC Qods forces’ commander Qassem Soleimani and #PMF leader Abu Mahdi Mohandis were assassinated by #US forces in #Baghdad airport #Iraq
This is the beginning of the end…
— Nafiseh Kohnavard (@nafisehkBBC) January 3, 2020
From RT, “Iran Quds Force commander killed in strike on convoy at Baghdad Airport – reports”:
The head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, has reportedly been killed in a strike near the Baghdad International Airport, along with senior leaders of the Iraqi Shia militia the US blamed for the attack on its embassy.
“The American and Israeli enemy is responsible for killing the mujahideen Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani,” said Ahmed al-Assadi, a spokesman for Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, as cited by Reuters.
Al-Muhandis is the deputy chief of the Popular Mobilization Forces, the umbrella group of Shia militias integrated into the Iraq’s armed forces, which was blamed for the siege of the US embassy in Baghdad earlier this week.
Al-Muhandis and Soleimani were apparently in a convoy traveling near the Baghdad airport when it was struck by multiple missiles. The PMF earlier confirmed the deaths of five of its members and two “guests.”
Reuters reported that the Pentagon has claimed responsibility for the strike, citing an unnamed US official.
In terms of significance, this is as if Iran assassinated Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Iran is going to retaliate. Odds are very high this will spiral into a larger war.
America Last Neocons are already celebrating.
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You have to be kidding me with this anti-Israel anti-USA pro-Jihadist propaganda piece. I happen to really respect G.Ed Griffin and all his work but Iran is a belligerent and aggressive enemy of the USA. Give me a break with this pinning blame on Israel, as if we don’t have our own good reasons for engaging Iran. WW3 is what we’ll get if we continue to cower in the face of Iranian advancement in the middle-east, and let them get a nuclear weapon. I can’t believe the anti-Semites have gotten hold of this website. I was a Ron Paul supporter… Read more »
I agree that we don’t want endless war but to let the Iranians continue to disrupt, terrorize and murder has to be stopped. We have a Commander-In-Chief that subscribes to these principles. Good call on his part. Iran does not want war with the U.S. as they would be decimated in a matter of a couple of days and they know it.
These idiots are nothing more than psychopaths, trump who wants to cover up the all the corruption in is establishment and the rigged stockmarket, he needs a war, the only trouble these idiots don’t get you are going to involve Russia and China, then again the yanks think they can win a nuclear war, lost for words.
I dispute the erroneous assertion that this was tantamount to iran killing Pompeo…. unless you have evidence that Pompeo does consort with terrorist organizations leaders and was the brains behind some terrorist groups pretending to be protestors, and attempting to destroy an iranian EMBASSY…
wake up…. the evidence of this key GENERAL consorting in PAST and future attempts to use the HEZBOLLAH terrorists in attacking Americans overseas says that IRAN CLEARLY ARE STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM PERPETRATORS…..