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Will Old Joe Biden’s handlers throw Donald Trump to the wolves to appease the Islamic Republic of Iran? Really, can the possibility be dismissed out of hand? Last Tuesday was the third anniversary of the killing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. While the date passed virtually unnoticed in the United States, it was once again a major event in the Islamic Republic of Iran, featuring numerous threats of revenge from enraged Iranian leaders. And on Thursday, underscoring the status of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq as a satellite of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the President of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zaidan, announced that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Donald Trump for this alleged crime.
Iraqi News reported Thursday that Zaidan “mentioned in a statement that the Iraqi judiciary issued an arrest warrant for former U.S. President Donald Trump, who confessed to having committed the crime.” Well, yes and no. Trump certainly took responsibility for the U.S. Army action, but this was hardly a confession to having committed a crime. Soleimani was killed near Baghdad International Airport shortly after an Iranian-backed militia attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad — an attack Soleimani oversaw. The strike against him was a clear warning to Iran not to continue to target Americans and American installations.
The Islamic Republic, however, has consistently portrayed the killing of Soleimani as an unprovoked, gratuitous strike by the Great Satan. And so now, the Iraqi High Court, dutifully carrying out the will of the Iranian mullahs in Tehran, is “calling on those investigating the assassination of the Quds Force commander, Qasem Soleimani, and chief of staff of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis,” who was also killed in the strike against Soleimani, “to make an exceptional effort to uncover the perpetrators.” Zaidan asked, referring to Trump: “Why has he not yet been held accountable for this heinous crime?”
The answer, of course, is because this was a military action against a rabidly hostile power, which no reading of international law classifies as a crime of any kind. The Islamic Republic has not yet succeeded in imposing its will upon the rest of the world, and that’s why few people outside Iran or Iraq think that Trump committed any kind of crime at all in the killing of Soleimani. However, Faiq Zaidan and the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council might consider contacting Merrick Garland for help. The voraciously partisan and authoritarian Garland might be only too happy to help the Iraqis arrest Trump and extradite him to Baghdad for prosecution. That might save Garland and his Gestapo colleagues the trouble of formulating a bogus indictment of the former president over his supposed role in the trumped-up (in more ways than one) Jan. 6 “insurrection.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Do you think Iran is smart enough to realize that the Bidens hate Trump badly enough that if they were to ask for Trump to be extradited to Teheran, the Bidens would say yes?
dazzleme says
There would be riots, Biden should watch his step!
Burnaby Lad says
“Last Tuesday was the third anniversary of the killing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.”
beside hanging kids, Iran recently revealed its new AD-08 SHORAD (Short Range Air Defense) system, a mobile, short range anti-aircraft missile system mounted on a truck. All the equipment is Iranian-made and the vehicle carrying the system can be any 4×4 light truck. The system operator uses an electro-optical target designator which sends the heat-seeking missile in the direction of the target (helicopter, cruise missile, UAVs and any low flying aircraft). The 75 kg (165 pound) 156mm missile is 2.77 meters (8.5 feet) long and can hit targets 700 to 8,000 meters from the vehicle and at altitudes of 20 to 6,000 meters. There were no details on export efforts, how much the system costs or if it has any combat experience.
Iran announces a lot of new weapons that are never heard about again. Some of these systems are clearly prototypes that are misrepresented for propaganda purposes. The AD-08 may be real but that won’t be clear until it shows up in service, especially in a combat zone.(strategypage.com)
they’re done like desert one