Here’s how it started – with a tweet from the State Dept warning that the U.S. will continue to hold Iran accountable for their acts … @SecPompeo: We will continue to hold the Islamic Republic of Iran accountable wherever we find their malign activity. pic.twitter.com…
President Trump has put Iran on notice – Further aggression will be met with an overwhelming response. … US-Iran relations under Obama vs. … US-Iran relations under @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/CeYF7eP20M
— Mike Joyce (@mjoyce317) January 3, 2020…
State Department says Iran responsible for killing 608 U.S. troops during Iraq War. … all Iranian and Iranian-backed forces in those operations.
17% of U.S. troops killed in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 orchestrated by Iran … — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 3, 2020
My family is from Iran. Some are still in Iran.…
The strike makes Iran pause its escalations against the U.S. and its allies. … best served cold — Iran appears to stand down, but instead follows the Libyan playbook after Reagan's 1986 strike. … We may have started down a road that leads to the welcome weakening of Iran.…
Under President Obama, the U.S. was realigning with Iran, which meant providing its regime with billions of dollars, some of it hand … Taking the red-carpet treatment for granted, Iran appears to have badly miscalculated with President Trump. … In 2015, Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry were interested in signing a nuclear deal with Iran to cement his legacy.…
The conversation continued until it reached a boiling point with Kilmeade telling the latter that he was “making excuses for Iran” … All out brawl on Fox & FriendsKilmeade: You're making excuses for Iran.…
security adviser for President Barack Obama and a frequent critic of President Trump’s foreign policy, particularly as it relates to Iran … Rhodes was the lead spinmeister behind the Obama administration’s “Iran deal”, which was an epic failure. … “President Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal with Iran was sweetened with an illicit ransom payment and billions of dollars for the world…
recently identified by the White House as part of its echo chamber gave National Public Radio $100,000 to help it report on the Iran … If the US did this, the response from Iran will likely be exponentially greater. … Iran was emboldened, killing thousands in Iraq, including U.S. soldiers because of Rhodes’ push to appease them.…
But Congress didn’t authorize and American people don’t want a war with Iran. … Next came the expected saber-rattling from Iran. … It’s difficult to believe Iran could hate us any more today than they did yesterday.
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There will be no regional war because Iran knows they have nothing to give but proxy militias and rhetoric. … Trump is under no reason obligation to engage is a massive ground war, even if Iran wants one. … We could not sit idly by while Iran continues to escalate matters.…
Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran … Soleimani is despised even in Iran where he holds great power, especially by the pro-democracy protesters he has oppressed. … Dissidents, feminists & secularists from Iran, Iraq, Syria & Lebanon.…
….Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. … There’s also the fact that Iran is not the United States. … Iran is bankrupt and their people have turned against the regime.…
Iran has shot down a US drone in international airspace. … This move was foreshadowed by President Trump a couple of days ago:
….Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage … and its proxies, and if Iran fails to understand the power of the US they will be making a big mistake…
Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran … Soleimani is extraordinarily close to the Supreme Leader of Iran. … Especially since Iran has an elected president and foreign minister. https://t.co/3QdthfC01P pic.twitter.com/oTs6Z0mjkB
— Yashar…
dramatic drawdown in US military personnel in the country, as well as the entrenchment of a Shia-majority government with ties to Iran … Obama was only interested in getting Vladimir Putin’s support for the future US-Iran nuclear agreement.
Iran. … And let’s not forget a powerful and immediate warning to Iran from President Trump via social media.…
For months, furious protests have battered Iraq, driven by the pervasive influence of a foreign power: Iran. … It was Iran militias.
(2) Resp to air strikes. It was months-long escalation.
(3) Shift from anti-Iran protests. … In reality, the attack had been building for months, with numerous calls from Iran to attack the facility.…
But today he’s pointing to a big problem, not just for the future safety of the embassy but for our position in Iraq against Iran. … Soleimani is using the Iraqi militias, which he effectively controls, to turn Iraq into a satellite of Iran. … of Operations for the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), the Iran-backed militias.…
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham let Iran know what’s what Tuesday in response to support of an attack on the U.S … But most striking was Lindsey’s blistering threat to the government of Iran:
“To the Iranian government: Be careful what you wish … Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE!…
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— Aircraft Spots (@AircraftSpots) December 31, 2019
This deployment is clearly designed to send a message to Iran … Since May, over 14,000 US military personnel of all services have redeployed to CENTCOM in response to aggressive action by Iran and … It should be viewed as a clearly visible signal to Iran that fun-and-games are over and it is time to call off the rent-a-mob.…
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The second was people like Obama adviser Ben Rhodes attacking Trump over policies on Iran … shortly after the embassy outer perimeter was breached, calling on Iraq to provide security as they are required to and warning Iran…
