The murder of the passengers and crew of Iran Air Flight 655 and the retribution for it were five and a half month apart. This gives us a hint of how long it might take for Iran to prepare the retribution for the U.S. assassination of Major General Qassem
Trump is like FDR, insofar as he’s a wealthy plutocrat elected as a populist who promised not to drag America in another foreign war. Now, he’s doing exactly as FDR once did
The Saker asks: can a full-scale war be avoided?
Tehran will likely take time to consider its options, with few having expected the US president to go for the jugular like this
Moon of Alabama on how President Trump has just declared war on Iran and Iraq
18 months before his assassination by US drones Suleimani had issued a warning to Trump that could prove grimly prophetic: “You will start the war but we will end it.”
Iran warns of ‘harsh retaliation’ as the man who played a key role in the fight against ISIS is killed in a U.S. drone strike
Wars that are built on lies rarely end in a clear-cut victory and they depend on deception to sustain them. As witness Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan
President Trump warns that Iran “will pay A VERY BIG PRICE” for the storming of the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad
Iraqi foreign ministry officials initially told Reuters that the U.S. ambassador and staff were evacuated, but U.S. officials denied this
The Iraqi president was informed of the attack about half-hour before it got underway. His request that it be postponed was ignored. Revenge attacks are now inevitable
The U.S. has acknowledged that it conducted “defensive strikes” on Kata’ib Hizbollah posts in Iraq and Syria. The air strikes are thought to have killed 25 fighters