Iran - It's Not Just Hostages and Arms Deals Anymore

[archibaldcrane]

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[Byrthnoth]

Weird that they kicked Bolton out and then tried to use his playbook

[Fiye]

They're not even doing a very good job at it. They killed some general most of us never heard about until after he got drone striked.

I am told he was good at his job.

[Tarage]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ad/2809762001/

We just fucking did it again.

[Fiye]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...08f_story.html

On Sunday, President Trump’s most senior national security advisers joined him at his Mar-a-
Lago resort in Florida, where Trump was beginning the second week of his holiday vacation. The officials told reporters that U.S. F-15 Strike Eagles had just attacked Iranian-sponsored militia groups at their bases in Iraq and Syria, in response to a series of rocket attacks that had culminated in the death of an American contractor two days earlier.

But privately, a different topic had come up with an agitated president: whether to kill Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, whom military leaders described as responsible for the attack of an American citizen and likely to kill more.

Why Trump chose this moment to launch the idea of an operation against the leader of Iran’s Quds Force, after tolerating Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf for months, was a matter of debate within his own administration. Officials gave differing and incomplete accounts of the intelligence they said prompted Trump to act. Some said they were stunned by his decision, which could lead to war with one of America’s oldest adversaries in the Middle East.

[Byrthnoth]

Maybe trying to distract from the honestly terrible news cycle that didn't quite take hold about all the internal emails regarding the (basically) illegality of the Ukraine delay.

[6souls]

Wreckage of Soleimani's convoy;



https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/stat...21769777909761

Per NBC analyst Rukmini Callimachi's military sources, the evidence against Soleimani that Trump used to justify his strike was "razor thin." Originally what Trump had was enough for the strike against militant targets last week, but after the U.S. embassy was stormed, he demanded that Sole be killed. The U.S. did not know that the Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was with Sole at the time of the attack, but have justified his death by labeling him an Iranian proxy.

American intelligence has intercepted plans by Iran to use cyber attacks against U.S.-controlled oil interests and against individual diplomats and personal. There is also talk of attacking soldiers embedded with Shia militias who are fighting ISIS and attacking U.S. interests in the UAE and Bahrain.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/stat...76832544460801

[Boyiee]

Wreckage of Soleimani's convoy;



https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/stat...21769777909761

Per NBC analyst Rukmini Callimachi's military sources, the evidence against Soleimani that Trump used to justify his strike was "razor thin." Originally what Trump had was enough for the strike against militant targets last week, but after the U.S. embassy was stormed, he demanded that Sole be killed. The U.S. did not know that the Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was with Sole at the time of the attack, but have justified his death by labeling him an Iranian proxy.

American intelligence has intercepted plans by Iran to use cyber attacks against U.S.-controlled oil interests and against individual diplomats and personal. There is also talk of attacking soldiers embedded with Shia militias who are fighting ISIS and attacking U.S. interests in the UAE and Bahrain.

Something something Iraq WMD's Bush Cheney Valerie Plame CIA agent cover exposed yellowcake uranium Scooter Libby.

[Fiye]

Something something Iraq WMD's Bush Cheney Valerie Plame CIA agent cover exposed yellowcake uranium Scooter Libby.

https://twitter.com/TomCokeIsABlunt/...79094663344134

[Tokitoki]

What's the answer? 50 times?

[Xno Kappa]

Why would that even matter? Most Americans can’t even name their own congressional representatives.

[Fiye]

Why would that even matter? Most Americans can’t even name their own congressional representatives.

Usually they try to paint the guy as bad before bombing him. Or as they say manufacture consent.

Not bomb him and make up 4 stories and see which one sticks longer.

[Boyiee]

What's the answer? 50 times?

No.

[Boyiee]

Why would that even matter? Most Americans can’t even name their own congressional representatives.

What if it's the president or any major people on his staff?

[Tokitoki]

No.

I misunderstood how the search function worked. I thought it would just give you results across all users, but 50 times across all users wasn't a crazy guess.

[Boyiee]

I misunderstood how the search function worked. I thought it would just give you results across all users, but 50 times across all users wasn't a crazy guess.

Oh I was saying no to 50 times among important and elected people.

[mallister]

It's one thing to poke the bear, it's another thing to poke a bear that you know is irrational and did a drone strike hit on your leadership and threatens war crimes on Twitter. But, sure. Fire up the centrifuges I'm sure it's fine.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-step...182017793.html

[6souls]

It's one thing to poke the bear, it's another thing to poke a bear that you know is irrational and did a drone strike hit on your leadership and threatens war crimes on Twitter. But, sure. Fire up the centrifuges I'm sure it's fine.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-step...182017793.html

I declined to post this because it's the same rhetoric from this past July where Iran announced they were enriching past the agreed limits.

[Lokus]

https://twitter.com/hodakatebi/statu...435586560?s=19

I was expecting this to happen eventually.