Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, warned in a statement that the “criminals” responsible for the death of a top Iranian general will face “severe revenge”, and that his work fighting on behalf of the Iranian people “won’t be stopped by his martyrdom,” according to a statement published on Twitter.
The statement was issued in response to Friday morning’s “game changing” drone strike (the attack took place late Thursday evening in the US) that killed Iran’s most revered and respected military commander, General Qasem Suleimani, the leader of the IRGC’s Quds Force – a powerful regional player responsible for overseeing Iran’s proxy war in Yemen, as well as Iran-backed forces in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere.
The statement was published in English by an unverified but widely-cited Twitter account, and though Zero Hedge hasn’t personally verified whether the statement is genuine, it is being reported as legitimate by many media outlets around the world, including the Washington Post, which cited part of it.
The statement reads as follows:
Dear Iranian Nation!
Years of sincere, brave efforts fighting against the devils& villainous in the world & yrs of wishing for martyrdom on the path of God finally took the dear Commander of Islam, Soleimani, to this lofty status. His blood was shed by the most barbaric of men.
We congratulate Imam Mahdi (‘a.j.) & Soleimani’s pure soul& condole the Iranian nation on this great martyrdom. He was an eminent example of a person trained in Islam. He spent all his life in struggling for God. Martyrdom was the reward for his tireless efforts over the years.
His efforts & path won’t be stopped by his martyrdom, by God’s Power, rather a #SevereRevenge awaits the criminals who have stained their hands with his & the other martyrs’ blood last night. Martyr Soleimani is an Intl figure of Resistance & all such people will seek revenge.
All friends – & enemies – know that Jihad of Resistance will continue with more motivation & definite victory awaits the fighters on this blessed path. The loss of our dear General is bitter. The continuing fight & ultimate victory will be more bitter for the murderers & criminals.
The Iranian nation will honor the memory of the noble Major-General Soleimani & the martyrs with him – particularly the great Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis – & I declare 3 days of mourning across the nation. I condole & congratulate his family.
In a tweet published shortly after news of the deadly US attack first broke, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif warned that “the US bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism”. He also denounced the strike as an “act of international terrorism” by the US, and added that the Quds force is “THE most effective force fighting Daesh (ISIS), Al Nusrah, Al Qaeda et al”.
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.
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) January 3, 2020
Meanwhile, Iranian defense minister Amir Hatami said that the attack by the “arrogant U.S.” would be met with a “crushing” response, according to the Washington Post.
The US Embassy in Baghdad, which was recently the target of a Benghazi-style attack earlier this week that Trump cited as justification for Suleimani’s killing, warned any American citizens to leave Iraq immediately, and said it was suspending all public consular activities (or at least any that hadn’t already been suspended in the aftermath of this week’s attack), the Washington Post reports.
Though President Trump hasn’t released a statement beyond tweeting a picture of an American flag, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the Pentagon had taken “decisive defensive action” against Soleimani, whom Esper claimed was “actively” in the process of planning attacks on American diplomats.
“Gen. Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” Esper said. “This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.”
During these tense times, we think it’s important to reflect on the fact that the US and Suleimani weren’t always enemies, as Barbara Slavin, the director of the Future of Iran Initiative, reminds us.
n the aftermath of 9/11, the Quds force worked (indirectly) with US forces in Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban. But the relationship soured after the American invasion of Iraq. Suleimani has been in control of the Quds force since the late 1990s, according to media reports.
To be sure, the general’s killing wasn’t the first example of President Trump ordering a supposedly “game-changing” military strike that could instigate WWIII (remember, “experts” delivered a similar warning after Trump sent 50+ Tomahawk Missiles raining down on Syrian military fixtures back in 2017, and have repeated it several times since), but it was without a doubt the most aggressive provocation of the Trump era, and has destroyed what little hope remained of a diplomatic detente.
Though, for Qassem’s sake, at least he lived long enough to see the finale of Game of Thrones (since he was, apparently, a fan…)
Not anymore Qassem… pic.twitter.com/KoEyQSKlmi
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I see a “World Bank” in Iran’s future…
1) US has no business in the Middle East. I recommend letting Israel and the Muslim nations deal with it as they see fit.
2) There is no more evil a nation than Iran. I have posted many times how they sent children and the aged as human mine sweepers against Iran, and sent them unarmed against machine gun nests. That is a extreme evil that defies understanding, and it was not very long ago.
Iran used humans as minesweepers against Iraq not Iran. Just thought I’d let you know
about your typo.
What the fuck are you talking about? The u.s. has been fucking around in Iran for over 60 years. And you’re bleating about their poor children? You don’t give a fuck about them anymore than the 500,000 babies under 5 that we sickened and starved to death in Iraq.
I ‘recommend’ General Robert E Bonespur gets out of there today-as if the american people have anything to say about it.
Carry on…
Cc – what the fuck are you talking about? My first point was to get out of that region. Yes, the US caused a lot of deaths there and it is an abomination.
My second point stands. They are animals, and make no mistake about it. Any nation that will walk its kids through minefields and as fodder against machine guns is a special kind of evil.
That’s the usual bullshit you hear from warmongers and their asshole buddies-they don’t love their own children. Of course they do you monster. We used to hear this same propagandistic bullshit about the villagers in Vietnam. It’s fucking horrendous. If you truly think them worthy of wanton slaughter then you are the animal.
BTW, how much pity do you have for the Palestinian children in Gaza the IDF shoots like beer cans off a fence post? Are they doing their parents a favor?
When I was in “Journalism Ethics” I argued that I should be able to sell my ability to turn just about any scribbles by any idiot into at least a B paper, though guaranteed A was something I would offer for “extra.”
Dr. Gade assured me it was unethical for me to write other students’ papers for money. So, I did it for free.
Ben Shapiro and Nikki Haley strongly support this assassination. Still awaiting Bill Kristol’s take.
Shut up. America needs #NewAmericans with strong work ethics who don’t stick their nose in business that is none of theirs.
VOX: Speaking of the US, I am curious to know what the general opinion in Israel is of the American neocons who, like you said, have been trying to overthrow Assad. They have overturned the Ukrainian government, the Libyan government, the Iraqi government, etc. What is the general view of the neocons in Israel?
MVC: Oh, we love them. The Israelis are very happy to fight the Arabs and the Iranians with American blood. During the first Gulf War, Israel was then under Yitzhak Shamir and did whatever it could to encourage an American invasion of Iraq. I wouldn’t say that this was decisive but they tried. It was the same when the Americans invaded Iraq for the second time. It was the same when Americans clashed with Iran over nuclear weapons. Each time you can see this very consistently. You can see the Israeli Right and, to some extent, even the Left say okay, this is lovely, we are going to let the Americans put the chestnuts in the fire for us.
Myself, I must say, that I dislike this policy very much. But certainly most Israelis like it. They like to be on the side of the strong as I see it. They push America as much as they can into these ventures. Just today I saw a famous t-shirt that says “Don’t worry America, Israel is behind you.” I also know that some Americans, like Pat Buchanan, have been writing that these lousy Israelis have been trying to use American for their own purposes and have unfortunately they have succeeded. So, personally I am not happy about this policy. I think that it may well one day act as a boomerang.
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/06/transcript-available.html
“I think that it may well one day act as a boomerang.”
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82% popularity within Iran….
Might I be so bold as to ask just what an advertisement for your services has to do with the topic at hand ???
Good old decapitation strike. Got #1 and #2 in one fell swoop. That smelly old fuque better realize he and his entire cabal are at risk for the same.
Can you say Ezekiel 38&39 war anyone? Iran allied with Turkey and Russia. I bet you can!
Somebody missed a good pay-for-view opportunity for showing Valerie Jarret’s face when she got the news.
You still pay for view via taxation without representation. It’s just that you’re too ignorant to understand the rules, who the players are or even what the end game prize is. Zionist vs Bolsheviks is the only game in town. The Republic was lost long time ago.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools
Romans 1:22
ha ha ha …so wise
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No truer words.
“Carlson then contrasted the focus on the Iranian threat to U.S. interests to the threat to the American people coming from the southern border, which is all but being ignored.
Tucker said those “demanding action against Iran” are the same people who say nothing about “the invasion of America now in progress from the South, the millions, the tens of millions of foreign nationals living among us illegally, the torrent, more significantly of Mexican narcotics that has killed and disabled entire generations of Americans.”
Carlson concluded his response with a stark warning.
“‘Pay no attention to all of that,’ these very same people tell us. ‘The real threat is Iran.’ Well, they’re liars, and they don’t care about you, they don’t care about your kids. They are reckless and incompetent, and you should keep all of that in mind as war with Iran looms closer.”
https://summit.news/2020/01/03/tucker-carlson-slams-iran-escalation-theyre-liars-and-they-dont-care-about-you/
George Carlin They Don’t Give a Fu@k About You
Carry on…
Spot on as usual. Surprised he has been silenced.
and how many jihadis have come across the southern border with who knows what weapons
“they don’t care about you”
actually, they care about you a lot. they want you enslaved or dead. either one, but they want it really bad and they care about it a lot.
Its all fun and games until Armageddon breaks out.
That was the dream of Shock and Awe – provoke Armageddon and Judgment Day.
Google = Skynet
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Occam’s Razor…….Most likely a Mossad hit, they have WAY better on the ground intelligence. Trump willingly takes the blame, protecting Israel, giving his loyal base an erection and spiking oil prices helping oil producers, stock market creates a “buy the dip” opportunity, stresses importance of the military, makes Dems look like pussies, lather rinse repeat. This will all be forgotten as soon as that little fat fuck in N. Korea throws an attention tantrum again. BORING.
I think this scares the shit out of the fat little bastard. In military terms it was pure artistry.
OK, donning kevlar undergarments (but not those special Mormon ones).
Fuck Iran…and Fuck the Deep State Left asshats.
I guess everybody here has forgotten that the Kenyan Usurper dropped $150B in CASH on the deck with Iran….obviously a corrupt and some of that cash was laundered back to Obama through his Netflix and Book Deals (about $100M).
So for his blood money, Obama let Iran go hog wild even though that Qods commander had caused 17% of the US Military Deaths in Iraq with the special-shaped charge IEDs that shredded our vehicles like a hot knife through butter. I have a cousin with a TBI thanks to that MFer. Obama and John Kerry committed treason.
https://www.hudson.org/research/11436-obama-strikes-a-deal-with-qassem-suleimani?fbclid=IwAR0AANOk3ul4AbA74AJFj_UNpxVwfN-YPDHZLlbI7ZSeYutgR5_QU_ahTIo
Isn’t it just obvious what this whole event was?
Iran in collusion coordination with the Deep State Dems/Left wanted a spectacle to destroy Trump much like Jimmy Carter was destroyed by the Hostage Crisis…..taking over an Embassy, Benghazi etc…..that was the plan here.
Trump being the Road Runner to their Wiley Coyote got inside their OODA loop, forced the Military to move their asses (they appreciate clear concise objectives BTW) and he made a quick decision to take out this fucker ON IRAQI SOIL!
No doubt that this enemy combatant (their Eisenhower) was actively involved in an attack on US interests…..so he got the blades of death! The Hellfire R9X (Flying Ginsu)….thus Mr. Sulieman’s unburned hand in the dirt…he was sliced and diced. Awesome!
So now what?
Trump has outmaneuvered both Iran and the Deep State at a single (Ginsu blade stroke)….No need to have war with Iran since he stopped the attack on the embassy and took Sulieman off the table. Iran will bluster but not do anything since they now know Trump is not fucking around (or they get more Death From Above).
The Left here is now in the horrible position….do they defend the Iran Deal and Obama’s legacy and thereby support attacks on America, do they try and say it was too much? Just ask Clinton about Serbia….and on and on and BTW where is John Kerry is he in Iran?
No there will be no war with Iran, the Road Runner wins again…….
And I also think that the military folks will appreciate what Trump did, used our assets to their capabilities and provided clear command authority…..no fucking around. That will be helpful going forward into the 4th Turning I suspect.
Let go of Obama. Save your energy and move forward.
Martel,
What is a TBI?
Traumatic Brain Injury.
Traumatic brain injury. It’s caused by impact or an explosive concussion.
I have a cousin who was in the Guard doing convoys while I was in Iraq doing ISR (intel, surveillance, and recon) at the same time. He was always a prime target for roadside IEDs, some of which contained components supplied by Iran. He was fairly lucky and only lost partial hearing.
As far as I’m concerned, getting an asshole like Soleimani after all these years is pure retaliatory gold but will come with a price. It’s vindictive tit-for-tat.
I was attached to the military to watch Sadr City and parts of Baghdad which could be sources of indirect fire on US areas. One of those areas was the Embassy Green Zone which would take rockets from time to time. My replacement told me as I rotated out that we’d finally gotten a few insurgents injuring our people. As the assholes arrived and positioned rocket sleds, a gunship lit ’em up.
I wish I’d been there to watch it happen, but second-hand was good enough.
The IEDs are powerful but our armored vehicles have thick armor and boat like V-shaped undersides to deflect the blast….so the soldiers are often alive but unfortunately the shock waves shake your brain around causing significant injury….TBI’s have been very common in Iraq and Afgh and not much you can do about it. Better than dead.
Better than dead? As a veteran who had a moderate/severe TBI from such a blast, I often wonder the answer to that question.
I was going to add the “I guess” but I felt it was disrespectful to you and your brothers in arms. I know it feels like that sometimes (maybe more than sometimes) but being alive there is always hope, even if it is hard to see. My cousin has two kids now and though 100% disabled is making a living and doing some very cool things….and he is a much better husband, father and person than I could ever hope to be.
Martel, ditto on everything. I spent 14 months on the border of Iraq-Iran trying to stop those Iranian EFP materials and it was like trying to put your finger in the dike. Lost two good friends while I was there to those effing EFP IEDs that this MFer built and pushed across the border. I hope this Quds goat humper is slow roasting in hell.
Don’t laugh. This escalation by assassination can get out of hand pretty fast. Is this guy the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the 21st century?
Consider all the friends (I mean enemies) the USA has made worldwide the last 30 years alone. Then there is the small issue of how many immigrants ( criminal invaders – enemy combatants*) have come to the USSA unvetted the last several decades since the catastrophic Hart-Cellar Act of 1965.
*At least now they can get free healthcare in Crazyfornia, drivers’ licenses in NY, and their own congressional representatives in New Mogadishu, Minnesota and Detroit.
Tit for tat might mean that soft targets – churches, schools, shopping and military installations – are abandoned for hard target politicians and even business leaders. (The Evil Fuckers, however, never seem to suffer any repercussions from their policies which cause these situations and conflicts.)
I think the killing of this Iranian is certainly starting the new year off with a bang and could portend a quantum leap in the pandemonium stage of the Fourth Turning.
@ Pequiste et al,
Your comments elude to the overall underlying agenda that most of us fail to see or forget about in this overall GLOBAL restructuring we are subjected to live through. The intentional further erosion of American hegemony and American influence, acting as the aggressor, utilizing the foreign policy of “preemption” to “bring peace” and “democracy” to the world, one rogue nation at a time.
Mind you, another country has adopted the foreign policy approach that the neocons implemented here, RUSSIA. And Russia and Iran are interconnected in so many ways, politically, economically, militarily. Last week Russia, China and Iran held massive joint naval exercises for God’s sake.
The U.S. image after this open, ironically transparent, assassination of a sovereign nation’s highest military leader will further be tarnished in the average global citizens mind!
All by design!
Much weeping and gnashing of teeth for mystery Babylon.
Lyndon B “Belial” Johnson -the demon Democrat who set the USA on the trajectory of destruction.
(Ted “Asmodeus” Kennedy needs to be in that photo along with Jacob “Judas” Javits.)
“Then there is the small issue of how many immigrants ( criminal invaders – enemy combatants*)”
not to mention the foreign nationals that come here to give birth, making their child a “citizen”, then withdraw to raise the kid in their actual homeland, then send the kid back to the united states barely speaking english but qualifying for military enlistment and security clearances because they are a “citizen” ….
2 U.S. bombings in less than a week. Big chess pieces removed from one side, multiple fronts. U.S.embassy in Iraq overrun and flags raised.
And, here comes another kick to the Iraqi and middle eastern people while they are already down.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-considers-pardoning-blackwater-mercenary-005914376.html
Trump shows his allegiances with IS RA EL, Eric Prince and the neocon chicken hawks itching to draw Iran out into open conflagration!
I can expound more later, but take a step back, Trump has managed to Not Take The Bait on a wider conflagaration from Isra-hell, the NeoCons (Us Isra-hell), the DeepState etc…..he literally has stopped them every time…a little rubble bouncing in Syria, pulling troops out (The the Deep State shoves them back in!)…and now this master stroke…….
Decapitating Sulieman (literally) in Iraq was brutal and effective…..Iranians won’t do anything and there is no more reason for us to escalate…..he neutralized the effort yet again.
Instead of bashing him….you should be thanking Trump for being smarter than these rats……
Remember he did not walk in with a clean slate……the deck for war with Iran was already stacked (remember Gen Wesley Clarke’s 7 countries, with Iran being the last)…..and somehow despite multiple false flag chemical attacks in Syria (totally exposed as false flags now by the OPCW). Trump has avoided the big war!
Brilliant….
So really think about what Trump has done, and more importantly not done in the CONTEXT of the situation and I hope you will see he is magnificently managing to thwart the ambitions of the globalists, including those rats in Israel.
That’s right, Trump is merely a victim in all this and he is doing his damndest to deescalate the situation by signing off on a drone strike assassination of the highest military commander of a foreign nation.
The new troops being sent over there because of the recent got for tat escalations is because the MIC forced poor victim Trump against his will to do it. Come on, man!
How much was the Defense budget this year anyways? I’m sure Trump was forced to sign that too…im sure none of his cabinet members or their cronies benefit in anyway from that a la Darth Cheney and Halliburton.
It’s amazing the effort people use to rationalize the contradictions they see and hear!
Not rationalizing at all….Trump is not a victim, he is simply working with what he has…..
The $750B (and likely higher) annual US Defense Budget is a massive Titanic ship of state…with unimaginable momentum behind it.
It takes miles to turn an oil tanker…..what kind of effort do you imagine it will take to turn the US away from its Neo-Con, Jew rat planned trajectory? Then add in that trump has little to no personnel he can trust and that includes his Jew rat son-in-law…..Jared…..Pompeo is a first rank Deep Stater (even if he is one smart SOB)…and on and on…..
So Trump bends like the willow….but does not break, he is in fact the rock that has broken the dreams of the Left/DeepState/NeoCons/Globalist et. al.
I understand Trump now…..after observing him for some time…..
There is a certain character archetype in NY, particularly in real estate…..bombastic, overbearing, dominant, mouthy and yet also conciliatory, and most importantly providing lip service (telling folks what they want to hear) but having no intentions of following through.
Remember Real Estate is heavily dominated by the Jew Crew….and Trump has been an “outsider” to that cabal for his entire career/life….he knows more about dealing with the tribe than you or I will ever know.
It is no surprise given the circles he has traveled in that Trump’s lovely daughter married into the tribe (very medieval alliance marriage type stuff).
Thus we constantly see Trump saying stuff that seemingly supports the left/DeepState (Take the guns, then due process etc.)…..But, watch what he actually does……
Nope, no new Federal Gun Laws, red flag or otherwise…..
Nope, no major wars despite many attempts to get the festivities started, especially in Syria, or North Korea, even Russia/Ukraine etc. and especially now Iran.
Watch what he does…..not the word salad of rhetoric, that the boy from Queens learned as a survival tool.
Sure nobody is perfect….I would love to wave a magic wand and cut the US defense budget to $100B….shut down 90% of the foreign bases….defend the right to travel on the seas and air and let the fucktards around the world fight their own battles….They would like the Turks/Kurds/Syrians quickly find an acceptable solution….but do you really believe Trump can do that and live?
I don’t….I think he would be killed very quickly…..this is a high stake dangerous game. So nothing is ever clean and quick….solutions are not obvious and resolution is always messy……but Trump is winning this fight…..and slowly (too slowly for me) moving the heading of the big ship…..
The alternative is truly horrifying…..MIC full-on war with Iran….no thanks. No more war for oil (we have plenty thanks), no more war for the USD (fuck the Fed) and no more war for the armchair chicken hawks who never ever bear the consequences of their actions.
I have always been for pulling out of the middle east and letting them settle things there for themselves.
Our military has to do something with all of our debt money and those toys they have.
One of the ironies of our Iraq adventure is that right afterward the Iranians poured right in.
The Iraqi Shia share a religious ideology with the Iranians who took over from Ayatollah Khomeini years ago. They have a lot in common and it makes sense they’d have a go at the Great Satan, if given the opportunity. Among the leaders of Iran have been Twelvers, members of a particularly extremist sect. If Islamic fatalism is bad, these are among the worst because their perspective is apocalyptic in nature.
Cursed thread from 2018 worth re-reading…
“his work fighting on behalf of the Iranian people ‘won’t be stopped by his martyrdom’”
he’s right. this strike won’t change anything, except to goad the iranian leadership into taking action. which is the intent – israel is more than willing to fight islam to the last american soldier and needs another excuse to give the order.