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World News See other World News Articles Title: US Assassination Of Top Iranian Military Official May Ignite World War The US has admitted to assassinating Iran’s most beloved military leader, General Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike which seems very likely to ignite a full-scale war. Six others are also reported killed, including Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. According to the Pentagon, Trump personally ordered the assassination. I’ll keep following this hugely important story and will probably be writing a lot about it as it unfolds. I encourage everyone who values peace and humanity to follow it as well. “Spoke to a very knowledgeable person about what Iran’s response to Soleimani’s assassination might be,” The Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi tweeted regarding this developing story. “This would be the equivalent of Iran assassinating Petreus or Mattis, I argued. No, he responded, this is much bigger than that.” “Most Americans won’t understand the gravity of this,” tweeted journalist Rania Khalek. “Qasem Soleimani is head of the Iranian IRGC’s elite Quds Force, which conducts operations outside of Iran in both Iraq and Syria. He was credited with helping turn the tide in both countries against Al-Qaeda and ISIS.” “This is very serious,” Khalek added. “The US essentially declared war on Iran by assassinating its most revered military figure in Iraq. And by also killing the head of the PMF, the US created more enemies in Iraq. There will be regional retaliation. It’s unlikely it can be prevented.” “If true, It is not an understatement to say this could change the entire Middle East,” tweeted Rising‘s Saagar Enjeti. “There’s going to be that war now that people have been pushing for since tanking the Iran Deal,” tweeted The Intercept‘s Murtaza Mohammad Hussain. “If this is true, the US has effectively declared war on Iran, which has established militarily ties with Russia and China. It’s not hyperbole to say this could start WW3. Insane,” tweeted Grayzone‘s Dan Cohen, who also highlighted the important fact that “Iran, Russia and China held joint naval drills less than a week ago.” “Iranian sources in Iran are warning that killing Gen. Qasem Sulaimani spells war,” tweeted Farnaz Fassihi of The New York Times. “‘Official reaction will begin with a strike,’ one says.” A proportionate retaliatory strike would necessarily entail an attack on US military targets, or the military targets of US allies. If that happens, either the empire stands down or we’re looking at an all-out war of a size that is potentially almost limitless. Months after Donald Trump took office it was reported that the CIA had escalated covert operations in Iran, and the administration has been escalating tensions with that nation further and further ever since it announced its withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 on completely false pretenses. The withdrawal was followed by waves of debilitating, civilian-starving sanctions implemented with the goal of provoking civil unrest, a goal Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has openly admitted. From there we saw increased US military presence in the region, then the Iraqi-killing airstrikes earlier this week and the resulting tense angry standoff at the US embassy in Baghdad, and now here we are with Iran planning retaliation for an unforgivable assassination on its most senior and revered military official. Many are understandably claiming that this geostrategically pivotal confrontation was precisely what Trump was installed to facilitate all along. The largest donor to any campaign in 2016 was oligarch Sheldon Adelson, who gave $25 million to the Trump campaign, and who in 2013 said that the US should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran. After Trump’s election win, Adelson gave another $5 million to his inauguration, the largest single presidential inaugural donation ever made. Newt Gingrich, another of the billionaire’s hired politicians, has said that Adelson’s “central value” is Israel. Make no mistake, Iran is not Iraq or Libya. A full-scale war against Iran would be many times more deadly, costly and destabilizing than those interventions; the UK’s Admiral Lord West told The Daily Star Online last year that winning such a war would require no less than a million troops, or nearly the total number of active duty US military personnel in the entire world. Even if a direct war with Iran didn’t lead to a confrontation with China, Russia and the other unabsorbed allies, it would still be worse than Vietnam and Iraq combined in terms of death, destruction, expense, and regional destabilization. And now, as I sit as the mother of two teenagers watching what might be a third world war looming on the horizon, all I can think is about how infuriating it is that we’ve spent the last three years on Russia bullshit and sectarian political infighting instead of building an actual cohesive antiwar movement and pushing real opposition to Trump’s warmongering. Let’s get it together, humans. We need big changes, and we need them yesterday. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 7.
#2. To: Ada (#0)
If we do go to war in Iran, it will draw about all our military resources to the region, giving China an opportunity to invade Taiwan, and whomever else wants to do something while the US is powerless to stop. The economic impact alone of an invasion is also dangerous to the USA. What happens to the dollar if we embark on a costly war? One thing is that oil goes up in price which helps Russia -- not a bad thing IMO as Russia is not the threat that it's made out to be.
We will never go to a land war in or with Iran. Neville Chamberlain is NOT sitting in the White House. Tehren will be removed from the map from without.
We will certainly not be invading Iran. It would not be afforded either politically or economically, and it would require a staging area. We had Saudi Arabia to invade Iraq from. To invade Iran either Iraq or Afghanistan would need to be willing and able, and Iraq may easily refuse, and even if the agreed, it would be a hostile place to do it. Nuking Tehran, if that's what you're referring to, would be detrimental to the US in the international arena, and would guarantee NK would never stop it's nuke program. If anyone cares about that, which maybe they don't, but it would make a permanent mess of things for the USA.
Poker, table stakes. Iran nor anyone is POSITIVE that the US will or will not use nuclear. Stalin bet that Truman WOULD NOT and he was right. We lost 45000 American kids. Many were my friends and comrades. That was okay, what a relief, Truman did NOT use nuclear. Truman had nothing to do with putting us in Korea, Americas hero FDR did. Trump had nothing to do with us being in Iraq, Bush did, our hero. Again, Neville Chamberlain is NOT in the White House. In a few months we can throw Trump out of White House, install someone that will disengage from the world and we will all live happily ever after.
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