"It must be a direct and proportional attack on American interests, he said, openly carried out by Iranian forces themselves, three Iranians familiar with the meeting said Monday."
"Of course President Trump is not going to put up with this, and he has warned the Iranians that he has identified 52 Iranian targets that could potentially be hit…"
I can’t but wonder how much truth there is in Iran’s latest threat to reveal the European politicians who took backhanders on the last Iran deal.
The world is most definitely a better place without Iranian military chief Qassem Soleimani. He was a butcher, a murderer and a despised international terrorist. All over the globe, people are celebrating his death, but without a doubt this also brings us much closer to a cataclysmic war with Iran.
The problem for Iran is that they do not have a "hundred times harder" option that allows for the survival of the regime.
Could it be possible that we just witnessed the spark that will start World War 3? Only time will tell.
I pray I am wrong.
Also killed in the attack was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, commander of the Kata'ib Hezbollah militia.
They come in the night: Drones — lots of them — flying in precise formations over the Colorado and Nebraska prairie. Why are they there?
2020 was shaping up to be a chaotic year anyway, but this crisis threatens to start it with a real bang.
President Trump: "Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat."
Over the past six months, the U.S. has sent 14,000 more troops to the Middle East, and it is being reported that “the Pentagon is considering deploying additional forces to the region.”
It is imperative for both Australia and New Zealand to find a practical foreign policy solution to the ever-increasing turbulence between the United States and China.
"A storm is coming from the halls of power in DC."
The anti-Russia hysteria in the United States is tying the hands of Donald Trump to act responsibly to protect America.
In response, the United States is channeling a record high level of funding into counterterrorist resources, including $280 million from the State Department budget and $500 million from the Department of Defense. 7200 personnel are currently deployed to Africa command.
All these people arrogantly claimed to know better than the ordinary folk. And, like the ideologues behind the French and Russian Revolutions, they also claimed to speak in the name of “the people.” But by “the people” they meant only themselves and their clique. And last Thursday the people answered back.
The EU is amalgamating not only member states' defence forces, but also paramilitary riot-police forces.
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!
The EU now has its Military Planning and Conduct Capability, its Single Intelligence Analysis Capacity, its Defence Intelligence Organisation, its Satellite Centre (its Galileo and Copernicus programmes are both part of its Global Strategy), its European Security and Defence College, its Military Erasmus, to promote a ‘European strategic culture’, its Institute for Security Studies, its European Political Strategy Centre, its European Air Transport and its European Tactical Airlift Centre.
Between 2012-2017, the cost of violence increased by 11% to $14.6 trillion—mainly due to rising violence in Syria, Libya, Yemen, and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
The Iranians were particularly interested in developing agents who had once worked for the US government and were able to provide information on the CIA and DIA intelligence networks...
"Seems that Iranian authorities don’t want us to see how they are shooting unarmed protesters from rooftops of government buildings."
"Needless to say, the Chinese are extremely angry about this new law, and the official newspaper of the ruling communist party is warning that the U.S. needs to “rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice” and that China will soon “take resolute revenge”…"