UPDATE: Another base has also been targeted. And the photo accompanying this photo is apparently from Gaza, although the Iranian regime put it out claiming it was of this attack. “War is deceit,” said Muhammad.
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This will be used, and probably is already being used, to buttress the claim that Trump provoked war by taking out Soleimani. In reality, the mullahs have wanted war with the U.S. for decades, as The Complete Infidels Guide to Iran demonstrates. They also probably figure that Trump is crippled in facing so much opposition from the American political and media establishment, and won’t be able to act. They may be wrong in that.
Video circulating of Missiles flying from #Iran to #Iraq hitting US base: pic.twitter.com/VEVJbWlVNx
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) January 7, 2020
“Rockets land at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad base that contains US forces,” Al Arabiya, January 8, 2020:
Rockets landed at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base that contains US forces, American official told Reuters.
No information yet on any damage, casualties from the rocket attack, according to the US official.
gravenimage says
Iran fires rockets at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad base that contains US forces
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Note that *this* attack from the Iranians is not considered escalation.
Bezelel says
Of course not. komeanie better hang on to his turban. I’m hearing the missiles came from inside Iran. That opened the door for US to respond directly to them. 🙂
owensgate says
The trouble with warfare, is that it rarely proceeds as it is first envisioned. But the worst way to proceed is by way of a “proportional response”, which just turns it into a quagmire of endless attrition. “In warfare, there is no substitute for victory” (as MacArthur said), but I think the best course of action to AVOID a war is to respond “asymmetrically”, in such an overwhelming way as to discourage any further attempt by the aggressor to pursue the matter. We have been playing “footsie” with these mullahs for too long. They want a Bomb, and an end to Israel. They can have neither, and they must be made to believe it. Carter was such a pussy, and he gave our canal away as well.
Westman says
“The trouble with warfare, is that it rarely proceeds as it is first envisioned.”
True, I suspect that the airliner that “crashed” in Tehran will be connected to some Iranian military incompetence.
Kessler says
Whatever the Iranians do next will be seen as morally just by a lot, if not most people in the West. This conflict fits perfectly into their narrative that Trump is an islamphobe/warmonger/bigot. When he won in 2016, the liberals were convinced he would start WWIII. Unfortunately for them, it turned out he was less likely to get involved in foreign conflicts than Obama/Hillary, and they swiftly moved onto other ways to defame him. After 3 years he finally reacts to a foreign threat and they are having a party.
On a different note; looking at the media coverage of this conflict, it looks like all Iranians worshipped Soleimani. This is far from the truth. Many Iranians hated him with a passion being part of the fascist regime which murders it’s own citizens. My Iranian girlfriend is one of them and her view is shared by any Iranian not brainwashed by the regime and it’s religious doctrine.
Whatever comes out of this, I sincerely hope it’s an opportunity for the Iranian people to rise up against the regime which has been sh*tting on them for 40 years.
ConstantineXI says
The Democratic Party is not only disgusting but ignorant and a bunch of hypocrites. The Democratic Party is the same bunch that wants to basically hang a vendor in the US who refuses to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple but will vehemently defend and applaud a regime that, as a matter of policy, throws gays to their deaths off of buildings
libertyORdeath says
I’ve already seen the BBC label this move as “self defense” while our reaction to the killing of US soldiers and the storming of our embassy was labelled as a “war crime.”
Whose side are these people on?
gravenimage says
Good question.
Max Brenner says
Beyond question, they are on the side of the enemies of the Democratic West.
J D.S says
I’m afraid the BRITS are no longer the BRITS. of the Churchill era because they mostly are gone and the generation that followed does not have the remembrances of the help that the U.S. gave to them during the time that Hitler had a stronghold on all of Europe but another thing is the migrants that have taken over what HItler failed to do and without the military force that he used. The bad thing is…… there is no push back from the inside of Europe or the outside either as was so in WW II..WHY??? Because the ones who are trying to take over the whole of Europe are using “RELIGION” as the tanks, airplanes, troops etc as their war machine. Also they are “USING” the laws of the land against Europe. How does one fight RELIGION and an ideology??? By making, and enforcing, new laws that define WHAT RELIHION IS “NOT” and enforcing laws already on the books. The worst thing of all…IT JUST MIGHT BE TOO LATE!
John C. Barile says
I got the news here first.
gravenimage says
Me too.
And John, great to see you posting here again.
Kirsch says
They are armed with a pea shooter against a Tiger panzer division. Their holy men and holy books tell them that this war will be won by them and then the 12th imam will descend from Jannah. Is this a crazy world?
Westman says
Frankly, their “attack” vividly shows the difference between rhetoric and reality.
Iran’s leader just revealed how ignorant he is , or, has been deceived, about Iran’s actual capabilities. Surrounded for years by “yes” men he has concluded that Iran can match the US military. The current “attack” reveals the failure of Islam-controlled Iran to create competency in long range warfare. If he’s smart, Khomeini will stop digging before he gets buried.
VRWC member77 says
Have the Islamic terrorist quds considered that two of the 52 targets Trump mentioned may be the ayatollah and rouhani?………….watch the left blow a megaton gasket, hahaa.
Trick_or_Treat says
30 rockets fired (only 6 actually hit the base), and from what just heard, the US is hitting Iran back, RIGHT NOW, as I key this.
Hope they start with splashing those two dirtbags, Khamenei and Rouhani first up – first cabs off the rank.
Westman says
Upgrading old Russian designs with Islamic-engineering still produces junk. Those statistics aren’t much better than when Saddam sent missiles at Israel.
FYI says
Apparently ,according to latest information,it seems the iranian rocket attack was a bit of a damp squib:no doubt the shite “holy” men of islam “prayed” to their muslim Arab god al lah [“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54]for success ,putting it all in his hands.
But the problem for the iranians{persians} that allah is an ARAB god,a god who cannot even get his own anatomy right given he has TWO RIGHT HANDS{sahih muslim 1827}and so islamic “prayers” are always going to be futile…and it is hard to trust a pagan ARAB god who admits he is a champion at fooling people.
al lah has iran and his muslims in the loving,tender,palms of his TWO RIGHT HANDS so what could posssibleigh go wrxong?
And I would suggest the iranians do not make a serious error in picking a fight with Israel as allah won’t save them from the consequences.
Trick_or_Treat says
PS: ..smash them like the dirty filthy cockroaches they are.
Jaydam says
Its trending now on Twitter that Iran could also attack Dubai, and Israel.
This could get out of control very quickly.
Infidel says
Israel’s Arrow Defense system can defend them, like they did against Saddam’s scud missiles in 1991. I’m sure that that system has far more advanced capabilities 30 years later.
About Dubai, I don’t so much care, except that Iran itself has plenty invested there, so if they want to destroy their own investments, inshallah!
Westman says
Iran, hated by 95% of Muslims, is going to take on a nuclear-armed Israel, alone? Only if the Ayatollah has a suicide wish…
Wellington says
Obliterate an Iranian religious site. Enough is enough.
Islam is at war with the West, whether through pure violence, demographic jihad, six ways of deception or whatever. Time is way, way, way overdue to put Islam on notice that we are now at war with Mo’s creed.
You can dissect this as much as you want, opportunely play off one Muslim barbarian polity against another, temporarily side with one Islamic state over another Islamic state, etc., but, in the final analysis, Islam is as injurious to Western Civilization and freedom as Nazism and Marxism have been and this needs to be realized once and for all.
Trying to co-exist long term with Islam is as ineffective a strategy as long tern co-existing with Nazism would have been. Islam is the early proto-type for Nazism; it has preached a master faith just as Nazism preached a master race. I strongly suggest the West sees Islam in this light.
Keys says
Erdogan: “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.”
Arms and munitions are “sheltered” in their mosques.
Weapons and explosives stored in their kindergartens.
Civilian-clothed soldiers are under their women’s chadors.
Rockets hidden in their hospitals.
Children massed on their bridges to prevent bombing.
Suicide vests under their thobes.
Enriched uranium beneath their cultural sites.
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War is deceit !!!
Allah is the best of all deceivers !!!
Therefor:
Islam is the religion of peace !!!
Iran does not seek nuclear weapons – it is immoral to use them !!!
Infidel says
What the US should do, if it decides to retaliate but if President Trump wants negligible human casualties, should be to attack sites at night when people are unlikely to be there. Like start w/ Khomenei’s mausoleum in Tehran. Or their various known nuke sites w/ MOABs. That way, Iran gets militarily crippled, but they don’t get the propaganda aces by pointing to tens or hundreds of dead civilians.
I’d initially pick religious sites associated w/ this regime, such as Khomenei’s tomb, as opposed to other shi’ite sites that are honored by shias both in and out of Iran, since we’ve not yet declared any war on islam. If we ever did, I’d be fine w/ taking out other major islamic sites in historic cities like Qum, Mashhed, Soltaniyeh, Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz and Teheran itself.
mortimer says
Response to Wellington: “Obliterate an Iranian religious site.”
Intelligence agents believe that religious and cultural sites in Iran are hiding places for weaponry. The reason to destroy them is to destroy the hidden weapons, not to insult the Shi’ite religion.
Westman says
That makes it a two-fer. There is no Sunni nation that cares what happens to Iran or its shrines.
Carol the 1st says
Is there something NOT to be insulted?
Wellington says
I’m with Westman and Carol the 1st here, mortimer. Insulting evil is not to be discounted. Nazism deserved this. Communism deserved this. So does Islam. At the very least, I think verbally insulting evil is important for free nations to do, especially by the great power, America. Besides, it can pay off in many ways. Think about Trump referring to Kim Jong Un as “Little Rocket Man” and how that led to one-on-one talks between Kim and Trump (and, as a bonus, Trump’s insult of Kim put leftists in hysterics which is always a pure viewing pleasure). .
I have long proceeded on the very defensible assumption that Islam is the longest-lived and best disguised evil ideology in man’s history. It fully deserves to be insulted. No reason to pay any respect to malevolence. The bad must fear the good and not the other way around. Insult plays a role in this.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington. Why should we respect evil?
Frank Scarn says
The head doctors have a description for the behavior where emotions take hold, suppressing reasoning. Muslims have this condition in spades. The instantaneous demand for revenge is so dangerous to themselves, to others.
mortimer says
Frank, Islam contains a teaching of compulsory revenge.
Westman says
Churchill referred to it as, “..the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog”
Frosty says
Frank, you just described the Congressional Democrats
somehistory says
moslims have felt invincible for a very long time. Esp those holding power in iran. Since they kicked out the shah, took over the U.S. Embassy and held American’s hostage for so many, many days…sneering…and then the sailors they took captive and forced to say things against their own country…the leaders are feeling just too sure of themselves.
Their fake ‘god,’ satan the devil, does not have the power to keep them from being harmed, or killed, if it is to be at this time. No matter how much they believe he will save them and make them victorious.
The reports said that when pelosi heard of the attacks, she said, “we have to pray.” Exactly for what, the report did not say. From her previous actions, my guess is there is no “hearing” ear for her prayers. Her prayers have about as much as the mullahs and the kameine guy’s prayers have of being heard and answered.
“Wars and reports of wars,’ Jesus said. (Matthew 24)
Ewanda says
Hope someone of consequence reads this post. There is talk of attacking the Iranian refineries to further weaken the Iranian economy. The world can’t afford all these global fires and diminishing of a non-renewable, limited resource. The better more effective way of dealing with the refineries is to destroy the roadways and potholing the land that surrounds the refineries. Every time they are repaired, they can be made impassable to transporting the oil in and the oil out. Which trucks and trains can negotiate over craters? The same tactic with the SHIPPING of that resource. Destroy the infrastructure and leave the resource intact for the future Iranians to use to flourish when they overthrow Islamic Clerics and take back their country. Islam has to be discredited before the world is its Mosque. Hopefully it is only a matter of time and inevitability. Read Sam Solomon’s publication – THE MOSQUE EXPOSED.
There is too much testosterone bouncing around blocking the brain pathways to the reasoning centers. Someone has to take a step back and breathe…… and cripple the Iranian economy intelligently. We all know the determination of 1400 years of Islam to impose its ideology on everyone and its implications.
GENERAL SOL’S-A-MEANIE can plan no more tortures and deaths …… and that’s a good thing.
Infidel says
There’s no need to destroy their refineries, which will be needed if the Ayatollah’s regime collapses. There are plenty of other more significant targets that are worth it. For instance, their nuke sites. They’re said to be deeply buried, so a few MOABs may be needed there. Then there are major religious sites associated w/ this regime – like Khomenei’s mausoleum in Teheran. Then there are sites significant to imamiyyah islam – like that well in Qum that the Mahdi is supposed to emerge from, the tomb of another imam in Mashhed, and other major mosques in historic Iranian cities like Soltaniyeh, Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz and so on. Also, to avoid giving Iran any propaganda opportunities about any genocide, all these sites can be targeted at night, when everybody’s home, and be history by dawn.
All that is far more useful than destroying infrastructure that will be needed by a post regime Iran, so that we’re not expected to pay anything to rebuild
Ewanda says
I agree but can’t help repeating the rhetoric from the hawks that say they will reply to Iran’s continued aggression by targeting their refineries.
Jayme says
The Erbil base also had Canadian troops i hope this is a wake up call to the left in Canada.
gravenimage says
I hope so–but I wouldn’t count on it, Jayme.
Infidel says
They’d probably ask why there are Canadian troops in Iraq.
I agree w/ Hugh – all Western troops should leave. Let the Iranians, Turks, Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shia Arabs duke it out
Dude says
It would not be surprising to learn that this last barrage of missiles was actually planned earlier by the recently deceased General himself.
No one on the planet has any faith in “American Intelligence”, so now what is required is a complete documented proof of the evil activities of the slain ‘hero’ – bang bang bang, 1-2-3, QED. No more rambling tweets or sound bites – get serious. Prove that he wasn’t just protecting his people, prove that he was not the hyped honourable hero. How do we think that the world has no right to an explanation? What are we hiding, besides our real reason for being in the desert at all? Put your resources into replacing fossil fuels entirely – that will have to happen soon enough anyway.
Dude says
Of course, after launching a public barrage of missiles, Iran would have had to place their defense systems at full ready to shoot down any American or Iraqi incoming missile response. DUH. Or as it appears: also airliners filled with travellers. Are these the idiots we want with their hands on nuclear weaponry? All their nuclear development facilities will need to be completely destroyed very soon. It is inevitable given their stupidity coupled with their insane ancient world domination agenda of murder/rape/slavery/robbery. OR just leave them alone and wait for them to destroy themselves. When you hate everybody, you end up hating EVERYBODY, so the desert will flow with blood soon enough – without any outside influence.