The USA has assassinated one of Iran's top Generals at Baghdad aitport

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AIBU to think this will lead to just more escalation in what is already a volatile area, given all the issues in Iran at the moment, the proxy wars, the recent arrival of US troops in Iraq.

We also have some British troops in Iraq, as well as Royal Navy ships in the region. This escalation affects us as well.

This person who was assassinated does have blood on his hands www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/03/who-is-qassem-suleimani-profile-iran but does a drone strike killing of him.

The response from Iran

"The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Twitter: “The US’ act of international terrorism, targeting & assassinating General Soleimani – THE most effective force fighting Daesh (ISIS), Al Nusrah, Al Qaeda et al – is extremely dangerous & a foolish escalation. The US bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.”

What consequences will there be?

is he getting execution lessons?

Appropriate typo for the thread, assuming of course you mean elocution lessons.

I’m gobsmacked by the who situation tbh. It came from nowhere. Obviously the situation in Iran and Iraq has always been volatile, but appears to have stabilised somewhat recently, and then for Trump to order this attack is just pouring huge amounts of fuel on a fire unnecessarily. And now we are all in a very worrying situation, because there’s absolutely no doubt whatsoever that there are going to be huge repercussions on the back of this attack, and the entire world is going to be dragged into it. Scarey times.

Basically the USA has used a drone attack in the country that it invaded many years ago, caused mass destruction to with no plan to rebuild it and that has suffered immensely from the invasion - to assassinate a top General from another country - one who has a lot of blood on his hands - and told Iraq that they will face massive destruction if they retaliate.

And the rest of the world is basically powerless to respond.

You can see why some countries want their own nuclear weapons to protect themselves. Would he have done it if Iran did have nuclear capability?

Oopsy - yes I meant ‘elocution’. Freudian indeed (but from a 5 star coward I doubt he’d take up weapons under any circumstances)

whole

Trump puts out fire With gasoline and now we all have to burn for the ego this stupid man

Bye bye uranium deal

The New York Times
@nytimes
Breaking News: Iran says it is ending all its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal and will no longer limit uranium enrichment

And Trump's reckless decision to assassinate him will not result in 'World War III'.
aje.io/xcsrz

^^Excellent piece from Al Jazeera's app

Excellent piece, Hefzi - thank you for linking that

It looks like Iran's retaliation has begun.

At least 6 missiles have been fired at the Al-Asad military base in Iraq which houses US and coalition troops.

And now a plane has crashed/exploded/being shot down over Iran killing 176. And from the photos it looks like it broke up in mid air.

I expected them to respond but that's quite scary. I'm not thinking that Trump will do anything other than pour more fuel on this when he gives his full briefing/statement later.

I am also really hoping that the plane crash is nothing to do with the tensions at all and it is just a very bad coincidence.

We live in dangerous, unprecedented, terrifying times.

We have for a long time. Since at least WW2. Something which is really putting a spanner in the works is that the West really doesn't have the population base to deal with this anymore due to being decimated by past war crimes.

We live in dangerous, unprecedented, terrifying times.

The thing is it's NOT unprecedented. Anyone who knows anything about the rise of Nazi Germany will see precedents everywhere! What's scary is HOW precedented this is.