The Guardian and Agencies – Jan 5, 2020
Donald Trump has threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites “very hard” if Iran attacks Americans or US assets in retaliation for the drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani and an Iraqi militia leader.
Despite the strike raising the spectre of wider conflict in the Middle East, Trump showed no signs of seeking to ease the tensions raised by the strike that also killed Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at Baghdad airport, saying the US wanted “no more thrreats” from Iran.
His comments came hours before Suleimani’s body was returned to Iran, the coffin arriving by plane in the south-west city of Ahvaz early on Sunday morning.
State television footage showed a tide of mourners packing the streets of the city to pay their respects to the general, chanting “Death to America”.
They gathered in a square with flags in green, white and red depicting the blood of “martyrs”, beat their chests to the sound of Shiite chants and held up portraits of the general, seen as a national hero.
“A glorious crowd is at the ceremony,” said state television. “The presence of children, teenagers, relatives, veterans, families of martyrs of (the Iran-Iraq war) and defenders of Haram (those martyred in Syria) is a glimpse of the glory of this ceremony.”
It was expected that the body would be taken to Tehran later and finally to his home town, Kerman, on Tuesday.
Trump tweeted earlier that Iran “is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets” in response to Suleimani’s death. But he said the US had “targeted 52 Iranian sites” and that some were “at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD”.
“The USA wants no more threats!” Trump said, adding that the 52 targets represented the 52 Americans who were held hostage in Iran for 444 days after being seized at the US embassy in Tehran in November 1979.
The strike ordered by the US president has raised the spectre of wider conflict in the Middle East.
….hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2020
Trump did not identify the sites. The Pentagon referred questions about the matter to the White House, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Asked about Trump’s tweets during an interview with Fox News, White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said: “The president is trying to make it clear to the Iranians that this is a very bad path for them to go down.”
O’Brien added: “The Iranians should be very careful … We’ve said we consider the matter resolved – if they decide to move forward against the United States there will be severe consequences as the president pointed out.”
Trump’s suggestion that the US could strike targets important to Iranian culture raised eyebrows.
Colin Kahl, a former Obama administration national security official, wrote on Twitter that he “found it hard to believe the Pentagon would provide Trump targeting options that include Iranian cultural sites. Trump may not care about the laws of war, but DoD planners and lawyers do … and targeting cultural sites is war crime.”
The series of tweets came as the White House sent to Congress a formal notification under the War Powers Act of the drone strike, a senior administration official said.
US law requires notification within 48 hours of the introduction of American forces into an armed conflict or a situation that could lead to war.
The notification was classified and it was not known if a public version would be released. House speaker Nancy Pelosi said the classified document suggests Congress and the American people are being left in the dark about national security.
Thousands of mourners took to the streets in Iraq after the strike, including many militiamen in uniform for whom Muhandis and Suleimani were heroes. They carried portraits of both men and plastered them on walls and armoured personnel carriers in the procession. Chants of “Death to America” and “No No Israel” rang out.
On Saturday evening, a rocket fell inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone near the US embassy, another hit the nearby Jadriya neighbourhood and two more rockets were fired at the Balad air base north of the city, but no one was killed, the Iraqi military said in a statement. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Gholamali Abuhamzeh, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards, said Tehran would punish Americans “wherever they are in reach”, and raised the prospect of possible attacks on ships in the Gulf.
Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah militia warned Iraqi security forces to stay away from US bases in Iraq “by a distance not less than a thousand metres starting Sunday evening”, reported Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV, which is close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Trump said on Friday that Suleimani had been plotting “imminent and sinister” attacks on American diplomats and military personnel. Democratic critics said the Republican president’s action was reckless and risked more bloodshed in a dangerous region.
With security worries rising after Friday’s strike, the NATO alliance and a separate US-led mission suspended their programmes to train Iraqi security and armed forces, officials said.
France stepped up diplomatic initiatives on Saturday to ease tensions. French president Emmanuel Macron talked with Iraq president Barham Salih, Macron’s office said. Macron also spoke with the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
The Greater Israel Project. Not much to say apart from the fact that every nation of influence must be taken back into the dark ages & you can include Greece in that.
We Have Raab a Jew, we have Priti Patel rewarded for being a traitor and Boris, is Boris a Jew?
Plutonymus Maximus vows to hit 150,000 sites ‘very hard’
Plutonymus Maximus vows to hit US terrorist sites ‘very hard’ regardless of what Trump and his terrorists say or do.
Plutonymus Maximus has promised to hit 150,000 US pukes “very hard” if the US or israhel attacks Iranians or Iranian assets. Plutonymus Maximus tweeted earlier that the Zionist barbarians “are talking very boldly about targeting certain Iranian assets” as an encore to Trump’s assassination of General Qassem Suleimani. But Plutonymus Maximus said Iran had “targeted 150,000 zionist sites” and that some were “at a very high level & important to zionist petri culture, and those targets, and israhel itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD”.
“Iran wants no more threats, no more sanctions, no more terrorism and no more bullshit!”, Plutonymus Maximus said, adding that the 150,000 targets represented the millions of Iranians, Iraqis, Lybians, Syrians, Yemenis, etc., who were killed, tortured and displaced as a result of the barbaric invasions initiated on the basis of the GROTESQUE LIE of 9-11.
The locations of 150,000 US pukes released by Plutonymus Maximus
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=192222#comment-935269
Rumor has it, that some in IRGC’s heavily isolated and guarded situation rooms are planning the retaliation, apparently some have proposed attacking US bases in Qatar and killing at least hundreds of US soldiers, because the drone that assassinated Qasem Suleimani took off from Qatar. However Khamenai has rejected this saying this will not be enough!
There may be other attacks on US forces throughout the world, however the revenge that is promised will be declared and clear, directly from IRGC. We can’t be sure how it will be, however it is likely that it will be massive and not limited to one location. It is expected that after the funerals it will happen, tomorrow Qasem Suleimani and his fellow martyred members will be brought to Tehran, the next day they will be taken to Kerman and will be buried there. This would conclude the 3-4 days of funerals.
“Trump has threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites “very hard” ” spoken like a true criminal .
There is nothing a criminal of that caliber wont do to please his masters .
And that guy is supposed to be the leader of a nation of over 310 million people .
Amazing the stony silence of the so called European puppets . Will they cooperate in the task of MIGA ? Make Israel Great Again ? MAGA was only a spelling mistake .
Dont count on the support of your only freind in the world the UK
the Americans deserve whats coming
Putin has protected these people, iran has pacts with china russia and n korea
lets hope israel is gone first
@ Y’all:
Great comments! Meanwhile, all the Roosters are out boasting and strutting their stuff, Amerika burns and will be destroyed from within! Remember, the Roman Empire, Germanic savages took it over because Rome was destroying itself first, the Germanic tribes learned and adapted Roman military strategies and techniques, to conquer Rome and then used Roman traditions to develop Europe. I am sure Iran will behave in a similar manner as the Germanic tribes, after all Persian heritage and Empire is several thousand years old. Amerika is only close to 300 years old. My money is on Iran, even as an underdog! IsraHells day of reckoning is coming soon as the Last Days and Endtimes are unfolding at a pace like the birth pangs of a woman!
Can any alt-media personality can defend Trump now? LOL
They will, they will spin Trump’s intentions and actions as great genius 7d chess player.
Trump is the most evil snake in the swamp, and all those who followed and voted for him were fooled and duped by that swindler con man.
TRUMP IS SET TO GO DOWN AS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERIKAN HISTORY IF HE ATTACKS AND FAILS. The gods have been favoring Iran all along so my bets are on them.
You couldn’t pay me to live in Israel right now – it is ground zero.
These are the facts behind the push for a war with Iran:
The US deep state is in complete control of the situation.
The American people have no real say and are brainwashed with BS by the deep-state, mockingbird media.
The Rothschild financial cartel & the Masons have complete control of the US deep state.
The Rothschild cartel has complete control of the Masons and of Israel.
The main agenda of the Rothschild cartel is world financial domination, with Israel as a trade hub.
The present Rothschild methodology is to engineer through world events and the media a One World Government (OWG), and especially a One World Bank (OWB), out of an expanded UN and modeled on the US Fed with trade enforced in the new currency just as does the US with fuel and its petrodollar.
The Rothschild cartel through various organizations has complete control over the Vatican which is continuing to be used this year to spearhead the call for a OWG.
Apart from their ever increasing power and control over finances, the media and our lives, there are four main pillars of deception which the cartel has constructed to bring influential people onside, and to usher in their OWG, and they are: the crisis of mass migration; the crisis of man-made global warming (now dubbed “climate change”); the crisis of major wars due to the evils of “nationalism”; and the crisis of instability in world markets and currencies. They manipulate and control all of these issues.
The Vatican has long been commandeered by the Rothschild/Masonic NWO – OWG cause. The RC Church is the largest organization in the world with 1.3 billion members, and is being directly used to usher in a OWG. The Pope has already given fully approval and full support for the Rothschild OWG & OWB, as well as for the Rothschild/Soros globalist “open society”, with open borders and mass migrations contrary to RC doctrine on subsidiarity, and the wishes of the majority of the Catholic and Protestant peoples of Europe who oppose it.
The Pope has already given full assent to the Rothschild-funded, fake man-made global warming creed and will add huge political and media support to the OWG – UN sustainability Agendas 21 and 2030, in May of this year.
However, the OWG, however, will not get off the ground on the basis of people everywhere agreeing to take down their borders or even on the basis of the fake science and media hype that we are into some existential sustainability crisis.
The OWG will never get off of the ground without the crisis or threat of mass destruction from war (wars orchestrated by the cartel) ostensibly caused by nations, i.e. uncontrolled nation states to be blamed.
The OWB, will never get off of the ground without a OWG to enforce trade in its new “stability-promised” currency.
Certain nations remain opposed to a OWG and all it entails, and one of them is Iran. Russia has until recently been the main backer of the sovereignty movement, but now seems to be wavering due to sanctions and likely trade route and pipeline promises.
The control of Iranian oil & gas reserves will give the Rothschild interests an overwhelming dominance in control of such world resources, and a stronger basis for, not just the US petrodollar in exchange for the new currency, but for the compelled trading in that proposed new world currency.
Iran is also right smack in the way of the trillion-dollar BRI (Belt & Road Initiative). All nations east of Iran right to China are onside. The central geography of the Middle East for trade routes to and from China, Africa and Europe plus control oil & gas resources in the region are of huge importance to the globalist plans.
An expanded & bordered Israel to reap the benefits of a largely “Daddy Warbucks”- controlled, world currency and right in the hub of most trade routes, necessitates the capitulation and/or destruction of Muslim nations hostile to Israel in the region.
Hence, Trump is ultimately a stalking horse not just for the Zionists in the ME and in the US, but also for the globalists. No sane person can deny he is a Rothschild puppet.
These facts should also tell everyone exactly what the NWO – OWG will be like. It will be more and more central control based on propaganda and force. There will be less and less control of local and personal affairs. It will be totalitarian and because of the methods and the ruthlessness of the people presently controlling these things. The consequences are existential. It is life & death not only with respect to religious freedom, but for our EXISTENCE, for these people who run the cartels, and the cabals, and the US have deemed that the world population must be radically reduced. We know who and what these people are by their deeds. It is by their deceptive, violent, and ruthless means by which they have abused their wealth and the power to impose their will, that we know their intention to enslave us even more.
@ Fred B:
Why not post this on Darkmoon too! The things you state are spot-on. The only variation I have is that IsraHell, through other forces building in Europe via Germany as leader of new reformed EU will trick IsraHell and then have the whole world attack IsraHell for its crimes against humanity. Think WW2 and how International Jewry tricked Germany from the reparations and deceit of WW1. It will be payback time for Germany as the leader of the final World Empire, the Holy Roman Empire. We are just waiting for the final Antichrist ( as Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Charlesmagne once were in their time)!
The love and support expressed for Qasem Suleimani in countries of the region and the whole world, is unprecedented and unique. Trump will die too one day, we can wonder how many will show up at his funeral, probably the biggest crowd for him will be the worms in his belly!
https://twitter.com/meghdad_vafaei/status/1214099129556774913?s=20
For every 1 of the 52 targets Israel wants gone first Iran would have its 52.