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Protesters burn a US flag during a demonstration over the airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani. AP/PA Images

Donald Trump says ‘reign of terror’ is over after Iranian general killed

The air strike ordered by President Donald Trump in Iraq’s capital Baghdad killed General Qassem Soleimani.

LAST UPDATE | 3 Jan 2020

DONALD TRUMP HAS declared that a “reign of terror is over” as he marked the death of an Iranian general killed in a US strike and as the Pentagon scrambled to reinforce the US military presence in the Middle East in preparation for reprisals.

General Qassem Soleimani “made the death of innocent people his sick passion”, Trump said from his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, adding “a lot of lives would have been saved” if he had been hunted down years ago.

Trump said the Iranian general was plotting “imminent and sinister attacks” and added: “We caught him in the act and terminated him.”

The US president said: “We took action last night to stop a war.

“We did not take action to start a war.”

Trump said the US was not seeking regime change in Iran, but claimed the world was a safer place without “monsters” such as Gen Soleimani.

He said: “If Americans anywhere are threatened we have all of those targets fully identified and I am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary, and that particularly refers to Iran.”

Earlier today, it emerged that the US is sending nearly 3,000 more Army troops to the Middle East as reinforcements.

The officials said the troops are from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

They are in addition to about 700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne who deployed to Kuwait earlier this week after the storming of the US Embassy compound in Baghdad by Iran-backed militiamen and their supporters.

The dispatching of extra troops reflects concern about potential Iranian retaliatory action for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force.

But it also runs counter to Trump’s repeated push to extract the United States from Middle Eastern conflicts.

Prior to this week’s troop deployments, the administration had sent 14,000 additional troops to the region since May, when it first publicly claimed Iran was planning attacks on US interests.

The reinforcements took shape as Trump gave his first comments on the strike, declaring that he ordered the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani because he had killed and wounded many Americans over the years and was plotting to kill many more.

“He should have been taken out many years ago,” he added.

The strike marked a major escalation in the conflict between Washington and Iran, as Iran vowed “harsh retaliation” for the killing of the senior military leader.

The two nations have faced repeated crises since Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal and imposed crippling sanctions.

protest-in-iran-after-us-airstrike-kills-iranian-commander Iranians mourn during an anti-US demonstration to condemn the killing of Qaaem Soleimani. Rouzbeh Fouladi Rouzbeh Fouladi

The United States urged its citizens to leave Iraq “immediately” as fears mounted that the strike and any retaliation by Iran could ignite a conflict that engulfs the region.

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo defended the strike as “wholly lawful”, saying that Soleimani posed an “imminent” threat against the US and its interests in the region.

“There was an imminent attack,” Pompeo told Fox News.

“The orchestrator, the primary motivator for the attack, was Qassem Soleimani.”

The White House did not inform politicians before the strike.

It was expected to give classified briefings to members of Congress and staff in the afternoon.

US defence secretary Mark Esper notified House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the strike shortly before the Pentagon confirmed it publicly.

Pompeo called world leaders today to explain and defend Trump’s decision to order the air strike that has sparked fears of an explosion of anti-American protests as well as more violence in the already unstable Middle East.

The State Department said Pompeo had spoken with top officials in Afghanistan, Britain, China, France, Germany and Pakistan.

In his calls with the British and German foreign ministers as well as China’s state councillor, Pompeo stressed that Trump acted to counter an imminent threat to US lives in the region but also that the US is committed to “de-escalation” of tensions, according to the department’s summaries of the conversations.

De-escalation was not mentioned in the department’s summary of his call with the French foreign minister, nor in his calls with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani or the Pakistani military chief of staff.

In those calls Pompeo “underscored the Iranian regime’s destabilising actions through the region and the Trump Administration’s resolve in protecting American interests, personnel, facilities and partners,” the department said.

Trump opted not to play a round of golf today, and he was not expected to be seen publicly until he travels to Miami for an afternoon event for his reelection campaign.

iran-soleimani A women weeps while mourning during a demonstration over the airstrike that killed Qassem Soleiman. Vahid Salemi Vahid Salemi

The embassy in Baghdad, which was attacked by Iran-backed militiamen and their supporters earlier this week, is closed and all consular services have been suspended.

Around 5,200 American troops are already based in Iraq, where they mainly train Iraqi forces and help to combat Islamic State militants.

‘Heinous crime’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the US, calling Gen Soleimani the “international face of resistance”.

He declared three days of public mourning and appointed Major General Esmail Ghaani, Gen Soleimani’s deputy, to replace him as head of the Quds Force.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the killing a “heinous crime” and vowed his country would “take revenge”.

Thousands of worshippers in the Iranian capital Tehran took to the streets after prayers to condemn the killing, chanting “Death to deceitful America”.

The targeted strike, and any retaliation by Iran, could ignite a conflict that engulfs the region, endangering US troops in Iraq, Syria and beyond.

Over the last two decades, Gen Soleimani had assembled a network of heavily armed allies stretching all the way to southern Lebanon, on Israel’s doorstep.

However, the attack may act as a deterrent for Iran and its allies to delay or restrain any potential response. Oil prices surged on news of the air strike while markets were mixed.

The killing promised to strain relations with Iraq’s government, which is allied with both Washington and Tehran and has been deeply worried about becoming a battleground in their rivalry.

The US Defence Department said it killed 62-year-old Gen Soleimani because he “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region”.

It also accused him of approving the violent protests at the US Embassy in Baghdad.

The strike, on an access road near Baghdad’s airport, was carried by a US drone, according to an American official.

Gen Soleimani had just disembarked from a plane arriving from either Syria or Lebanon, a senior Iraqi security official said.

trump-us-iran Trump delivers remarks on Iran, at his Mar-a-Lago property. Evan Vucci Evan Vucci

The blast tore his body to pieces along with that of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces.

Iran’s state TV said 10 people were killed, including five Revolutionary Guard members and Gen Soleimani’s son-in-law, whom he did not identify.

The tensions are rooted in Trump’s decision in May 2018 to withdraw the US from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, struck under his predecessor Barack Obama.

Since then, Tehran has shot down a US military surveillance drone and seized oil tankers.

The US also blames Iran for other attacks targeting tankers and a September assault on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry that temporarily halved its production.

Supporters of the airstrike said it restored US deterrence power against Iran, and Trump allies were quick to praise the action.

“To the Iranian government: if you want more, you will get more,” South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham tweeted.

“Hope this is the first step to regime change in Tehran,” Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton wrote in a tweet.

Others, including Democratic White House hopefuls, criticised Trump’s order.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said the president had “tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox”, saying it could leave the US “on the brink of a major conflict across the Middle East”.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:34 PM

    Must be an election coming up

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:42 PM

    @bmul:
    Iranians are happy. This General was psychopath, Part of a group that tortured, raped, sodomized its own citizens? Do you have any clue what you do go on about half the time or do you just want attention? Soleimani makes Hervey Weinstein look like a saint.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:44 PM

    @Raven: an American Trump fan speaking for the Iranians PLUM

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:54 PM

    @bmul:
    The Iranians that live in the US are protected and valued, meanwhile their brothers and sisters who live under the oppressive Iranian Islamic regime get hung from cranes and goal posts if they dare speak against it. Get real.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:58 PM

    @Raven: no one is valued in America in unless you got a few million ,

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:04 PM

    @Raven: You seem to be a Twitter account set up a month ago that tweets about nothing but Q-Anon and Trump…

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:12 PM

    @Brian Guilfoyle:
    Conspiracy theory time or tin foil hat? Maybe Moscow bot? heard it all before.
    I see you tweet your flavour of politics, well I tweet mine.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:13 PM

    @Raven: how you heard it before you account a month old

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:20 PM

    @bmul:
    A month isn’t all that too short on the journal….Yoda.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:31 PM

    @Raven: you are on the journal longer than a month what you old accounts but names

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:35 PM

    @Raven: Ah so there “ Happy tears “ good to know!

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:46 PM

    @Colette Kearns:
    Fun fact.
    Soleimani was responsible for the 2012 Libya attacks because he knew about the gun running to Syrian rebels that was going on out of CIA annex.
    He was responsible for Benghazi.
    And now he’s a dead terrorist.
    Tears of joy, Colette, tears of joy.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:49 PM

    @Raven: plum

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:57 PM

    @bmul:
    Is that all you’ve got? Can’t handle an opposing point of view or a few facts on the matter? Like I said you lads are so predictable, try thinking for yourself instead of following the dumbed down Orange Man Bad crowd for once.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:59 PM

    @Raven: link/s to prove Iranian happiness??? Sorry can just take your word hon but you kinda have form.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:00 PM

    @Raven: that comment sounds very similar to stories of Abu garib in Iraq..one rule that abdicates all…. Geneva convention.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:04 PM

    @Raven: not all I got but why would I bother with a trump mouth piece ? Plum

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:15 PM

    @Raven: facts the world had a working deal with Iran everyone said it was working including us intelligent Trump f.uck it up for no reason , is that a fact enough for you or are you gonna mention the pallets of money ?

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    Jan 4th 2020, 1:25 AM

    @Raven: sounds similar to the narrative when Iraq was liberated…is Iran also hiding wmds. Libya is now a nato car park thanks to is liberation..as is Syria..and Egypt…bombs talk bullsh-t walks…same story same result.. America fight wars under the cloack of terror .. war on drugs war on terror.. everything begins with war..when is the last time a war was fought on American soil?

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    Jan 6th 2020, 2:48 AM

    @Brian Guilfoyle: Yes, Raven is a US troll.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:33 PM

    I think he just made a bad situation even worse, but I doubt if he has any clue or comprehension of that Pandora’s box he just opened. We can only imagine the decisions he would have taken if he were around during the Cuban missile crisis. Typical cowboy shoot first and ask questions later.

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    Jan 4th 2020, 12:21 AM

    @Charles Williams: that about sums it up.

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    Jan 4th 2020, 2:52 AM

    @Charles Williams: what about the british boats that was held at Iranian ports?what about Vietnam? What about iraq? What about Afghan? What about lybia? What about Syria? Are you selective about what the president you dont like does?

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    Jan 4th 2020, 12:34 PM

    @Charles Williams: well said Charlie

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    Jan 5th 2020, 1:05 AM

    @Mike Murphy: I think you’ve mentioned 3 or4 countries there that have been reduced to piles of rubble mostly by the us military. Like the song says you dont have to kill the whole bloody lot to make the people free.

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    Jan 5th 2020, 2:46 AM

    @Sean Salmon: you just jumped ship and assumed but didn’t know what I ment…the above mentioned” We can only imagine the decisions he would have taken if he were around during the Cuban missile crisis. Typical cowboy shoot first and ask questions later.” But all presidents before him has started a war.. I was asking his he selective just because he doesn’t like him

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    Jan 5th 2020, 2:50 AM

    @Mike Murphy: and europe would of been turned to rubble if it wasn’t for the u.s.a and being brought up on the third Reich…but no one likes to mention it just trump bash and forget what happened all before them

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:44 PM

    Iran is an evil country run by extreme Islamic lunatics as a rich country the people are very poor in its dictatorship.
    Talking to a friend of mine from London who is Iranian he hopes America goes in and takes out the whole government out so Iran can start again ,as for woman they have no rights they can’t even get divorced unless there partner agrees in 2k20 this is still happening.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:46 PM

    @Punters Pal: America is a very rich country ran by right wing lunatics with lots of poor people by Fox news says it’s ok

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:49 PM

    @Punters Pal: Because every time the US and it’s allies “liberate” countries it works so well.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:52 PM

    @Punters Pal: yes. Let’s hope for thousands to die and yet another failed American foreign venture!

    Christ.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:52 PM

    @Raven: please point out how I’m a Democrat or where I defended Iran

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:02 PM

    @Punters Pal: you sir, are a f00l – I know dozens of Iranians who are horrified what this might bring for the country. Pure ign0rant comment looking at America’s foreign policy history

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:03 PM

    @Punters Pal: Is it any worse than Saudi Arabia?

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:04 PM

    @bmul:
    Hmmm, So you’re not a Democrat, you don’t support the Iranian regime, Bingo….Trump Derangement Syndrome?
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    https://twitter.com/RedRaven1776/status/1211762702298865664?s=09

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:07 PM

    @Raven: your an idiot

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:17 PM

    @bmul:
    Well since you got here you’ve just slated Trump and the US, admitted your afraid of the man but not a peep out if you about an oppressive ME regime that forces women to cover up, locks them up if they don’t, and murders its own people when it sees fit.
    Am I missing something?

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:17 PM

    @bmul: …And it’s YOU’RE

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:22 PM

    @Raven: never slated the US love the place not a fan of American foreign policy for years and it’s PLUM

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:28 PM

    @Punters Pal: your friend sounds like an idiot!! Much like yourself

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:28 PM

    @bmul:
    You’re acting like Trump just flew a unmarked cargo plane full of pallets of US tax payers cash into Tehran rather than him having a world class terrorist General killed who was plotting to have more American and their allies murdered.
    Your honest thoughts on the Iranian regime?

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:36 PM

    @Raven: Your missing that you just described Ireland 50 years ago and I guarantee you nobody here then would have appreciated “freedom” American style to liberate us.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:37 PM

    @Punters Pal: America had their stooge in control for years in the Shah of Iran, both the Shah and the American ended up being hated.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:50 PM

    @Raven: Classic diversion. Tell me this then; Saudi has a worse human rights record than Iran, why not attack them? No one is trying to defend Iran and its idiotic to over simplify to the classic “If you’re against Trump, you’re with Iran” argument.

    Anyone can see that this is an incredibly dangerous esculation. In the end, maybe Trump will be proved right and you will be vindicated. However right now, most of world is in disagreement with you. Either way, you’ll need to stand by your position and only time will tell if you were correct.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:54 PM

    @Caoimhin O’Murchadha: 50 years ago in Iran, women could wear anf do what they wanted, they lived what you could say a western lifestyle, that was untill the islamic regime change that was backed by iranii communists, what happened to those communists after the Islamic revolution you say? They had their heads removed,that’s what. Do think we were doing that here in Ireland 50 years ago pal

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:07 PM

    @Raven: If you like I’ll take to a place in Tuam where worse things happened, so yeah, it did…..pal.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:09 PM

    @Punters Pal: you do know Iran was a secular democracy in the 1960s and the British and the Americans went in an overthrew the govt and installed a brutal repressive dictatorship. Why because Iran had nationalised its oil and British Petroleum was going to loose a fortune. Iran is what it is today because of the interference in its affairs from mainly American and the British. The US want to topple Iran because of Oil……….

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:11 PM

    @Punters Pal: America is a business run by the blood of genocidal imigrints ..it’s purpose is to cause war worldwide for profit under the illusion war will never come to it’s shores or it won’t be held accountable through history. Due to the public brainwashing from a young age through television and now social media…all America is ..is a new age British empire…a mass murderer of human life…be proud America you repeated history.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:13 PM

    @PeterC:
    I’m no fan of Saudi either or its backward regime, The Saudis know what side they’re bread is buttered, they’re not going to issue threats to the US now are they, they’re told what to do by the US. what this boils down to in the long run is the Iran/Shia/Persian v Saudi/Sunni/Arab centuries old divide, with the US and its allies cosying up to Saudi and the Russians, Chinese etc on the Iranian side. The ME is a powder keg ready to explode, problem is there is no ME based superpower in the ME to keep it in check, instead we have multiple strong men regimes having school yard dust ups but at the same time gradually dragging all the big boys into the fight.
    That’s my tuppence worth on it.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:20 PM

    @Caoimhin O’Murchadha: he would have to fly from America first

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:34 PM

    @Raven: the key to unlocking the ME is Saudi Arabia. Why do you think no country in the ME attacks Saudi Arabia? Weird because they are no one supporter of terror in the world and their religion is the most extreme form of Islam the likes of which ISIS is based on. The reason is that Mecca is in Saudi Arabia. A Muslim must visit Mecca at least once in their lifetime and if your country goes to war with them. You can be sure no one from that country will be allowed to fulfill their requirements of visiting mecca. Now that’s clear who is the best friends of the Saudis since the state was created by the French and the British. The Americans, the French and the British. Supplying them with loads of freedom bombs.

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    Jan 4th 2020, 12:27 AM

    @Punters Pal: Iran is not an evil country, You need to go and read the history of the USA Iranian relationship. Iran is under seige by the USA and Isreal and Saudi Arabia I hope Iran acheives their aim of developing nuclear weapons

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    Jan 4th 2020, 2:50 AM

    @Punters Pal: is this loon allowed out unsupervised?

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    Jan 4th 2020, 4:04 AM

    @Raven: your tuppence worth.. is very naive for someone who comments as much as you do… which leads me to believe you are quite young with big world opinions. The Saudis were created by the English…the also are the biggest importing country of US arms..as the US is the biggest importing country of saudi oil. Understandably for surrounding countries who also have a endless supply for now of natural resources the Saudis are paranoid for their British given monarchy but are backed by USA .. and Israel….even though Israel considers all of us gentiles. War is money..it will never end… human nature is genetically programmed to fight but more sickining is it’s always because of greed. We will wipe each other out…it’s in our nature.. enjoy the small things in life..

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    Jan 4th 2020, 4:07 AM

    @Pat Conners: because the big things always come with a price

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    Jan 4th 2020, 7:54 AM

    @great gael of Eire:
    The Islamic, Shia and Sunni divide which is the core of the Iran/Saudi tensions predates any British or French influence. Is Saudi not currently engaged in the Yemen conflict?

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:31 PM

    The a Iranians were doing all they could to provoke the United States. Between shooting down American drones, kidnapping shipping, attacking boats, killing American contractors and trying to wreck the embassy in Baghdad. The only miscalculation they made was that they thought the response would be an indiscriminate attack. Not taking the head off the snake himself.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:41 PM

    @Thewestisbest: Yes its Iran doing all the provoking. https://iblagh.com/en/us-military-bases-around-iran/

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:12 PM

    @Thewestisbest: history has Iran on the right side my friend. Iran was a secular country until Britain and the US installed the Sha.. a brutal dictatorship who murdered thousands of his own people fully supported by the US.. This was about oil back then and today is about oil… greed and money and the cause of of conflict in resource rich regions..

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:42 PM

    @great gael of Eire: Only surpassed by the ayatollah

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    Jan 4th 2020, 4:23 PM

    @John Mc Donagh: except the fact that Brit/Yank imposed Shah never had the support of the Iranian people.

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    Jan 4th 2020, 12:17 AM

    Well done Mr President MAGA

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    Mute Pat Conners
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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:55 PM

    Get ready for the biggest war since Vietnam..Iraq.. Afghanistan or the so called war on Terror..this will have a backlash bigger than 1939 on the modern world.. maybe not on a world scale..but definitely on higher attacks from extremists in Europe due to a decision from America..and an economic fall out. The next economic crisis in Europe has just started. Nice way to get the new decade started.

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    Mute Kevin Hayes
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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:26 PM

    This is so obviously a Wag the Dog situation, Trump #IMPOTUS is trying to change the news cycle from his richly deserved impeachment and future trial.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:43 PM

    And the American rain of terror begins again. America is just as bad as ISIS and it’s sad they know this but don’t care.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:52 PM

    Trump frightens the bejaysus out of these Islamic troglodytes, nobody is off limits.

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    Mute bmul
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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:54 PM

    @Philip Siggins: he scares me

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 9:57 PM

    @bmul:
    Safe space time? You lads are so predictable.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:02 PM

    @Raven: and you not how many accounts you got where I n the us do you live

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:29 PM

    @Raven: hey have you seen Anna’s photos their fab

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:26 PM

    @Colm Curran:
    Think you’ve got the wrong birdie, pal.

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    Jan 4th 2020, 12:41 AM

    @Colm Curran: i heard he’s also RedRaven

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    Jan 4th 2020, 1:58 AM

    @Raven: as are you… single minded self obsessed little narcissistic non important entity of a comment section.. much love

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    Jan 4th 2020, 2:51 AM

    @Philip Siggins: the zio is happy. That tells you all.

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    Jan 4th 2020, 2:53 AM

    @Philip Siggins: will you be on the frontline?

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:21 PM

    “You’ve got to question these protests in Iran a country that doesn’t allow protests”. Christopher Hitchens. I’m inclined to listen to iraqi secularism on this killing when they say that it’s no different than killing al Baghdadi.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:30 PM

    A war with Iran would be unlike any war the US has entered into in the past, this guy sums it up really well: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c39jwa/iranian_general_says_us_was_warned_several_times/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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    Jan 4th 2020, 7:55 AM

    Obama and H Clinton left Americans to die in Benghazi including the ambassador. They did nothing well it seems this president is different.
    What was an Iranian general and his henchmen doing in Iraq anyway probably up to no good.

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    Jan 4th 2020, 3:32 AM

    Methinks Trumpy has finally lost it – Trump Putin Boris the world has lost it

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:20 PM

    The evils of Islam or the destroyers of WMD!
    I guess we may argue about this latest acts rights or wrongs but I doubt the majority of us will ever have a clue who the good guys are…

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    Jan 4th 2020, 12:28 AM

    @Tony Harris: the ones who get the oil

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:49 PM

    Deluded.

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:35 PM

    The war monger speaketh…

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    Jan 4th 2020, 12:44 AM

    This is all part of the plan. video from 2007 https://youtu.be/9RC1Mepk_Sw

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    Jan 4th 2020, 7:03 AM

    Oh, it’s only getting started

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 10:37 PM

    Whatever you say Donny

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    Jan 4th 2020, 5:09 AM

    Journal.ie

    Please do the news

    Australia is burning.

    the rest are gone off point. find me a reputable donation link and post it

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:06 PM

    Did Donald resign or something?

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    Jan 3rd 2020, 11:12 PM

    @Liam Byrne: he will as part of a plea deal

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    Jan 4th 2020, 10:48 AM

    General Bone Spurs Exposed as a fool Trumpbabycages SS will do anything to hold on to power…..even start WW3..
    Decieve Distract Divide and conquer Is there only agenda…

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    Jan 4th 2020, 8:53 AM

    That man needs TO COME OUT OF THE FOG…what a stupid statement

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    Jan 5th 2020, 6:22 AM

    As is obvious, it is only starting.

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    Jan 4th 2020, 3:46 PM

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