In what many middle east experts are calling an “ominous” signal to the west following the assassination of the commander of IRGC’s Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani, a red flag has been hoisted over the holy mosque of Jamkaran in Qom, Iran’s holiest city.
The flag is almost always blue, but according to old Iranian traditions in ancient wars red flags were raised when the enemy commits murder and will remain red until revenge is complete.
Red Flag: A Symbol Of Severe Battle/War To Come . #IranVsUS #سليماني pic.twitter.com/Z10FKCNA1g
— iwritesoffical (@IftiAmiry) January 4, 2020
Al Manar TV reports that the red flag was raised as speakers in the mosque called: “O Allah, hasten your custodian reappearance,” referring to the reappearance of Imam Al-Mahdi.
The flying of the so-called “flag of jidah” is particularly noteworthy given Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei comments that Soleimani was now a “worldwide resistance icon,” and Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah described Soleimani as the “master of Resistance Axis martyrs,” stressing that avenging him and the other martyrs is a duty of all resistance mujahidin around the world.
Meanwhile, AP reports that thousands of mourners chanting “America is the Great Satan” marched in a funeral procession Saturday through Baghdad, a day before the top Iranian commander will be laid to rest in Iran.
The mourners, mostly men in black military fatigues, carried Iraqi flags and the flags of Iran-backed militias that are fiercely loyal to Soleimani. They were also mourning Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a senior Iraqi militia commander who was killed in the same strike.
The mourners, many of them in tears, chanted:
“No, No, America,” and “Death to America, death to Israel.”
Mohammed Fadl, a mourner dressed in black, said the funeral is an expression of loyalty to the slain leaders.
“It is a painful strike, but it will not shake us,” he said.
Hadi al-Amiri, who heads a large parliamentary bloc and is expected to replace al-Muhandis as deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly Iran-backed militias, was among those paying their final respects.
“Rest assured,” he said before al-Muhandis’ coffin in a video circulated on social media.
“The price of your pure blood will be the exit of U.S. forces from Iraq forever.”
The gates to Baghdad’s Green Zone, which houses government offices and foreign embassies, including the U.S. Embassy, were closed. The U.S. has ordered all citizens to leave Iraq and closed its embassy in Baghdad. Britain and France also warned their citizens to avoid or strictly limit travel in Iraq.
Predicting what happens next is near impossible but this thread from Politico’s Rym Momtaz is as good as we have seen…
1/ Why did Iran militarily escalate in the Gulf lately? Shooting down a US drone, seizing tankers, bombing Saudi oil infrastructure? It wanted to internationalise the conflict. The Strait of Hormuz is where most of the world’s shipping transits. The US chose not to go there.
2/ US also held its own line: a US person killed meant retaliation. It targeted the militia that did the attack. It was reciprocal, but also punitive to send a message. Iran-backed militia escalated against US embassy. US managed the attack, didn’t blow everything up.
3/ US responded to embassy attack, and many lower level attacks by Iranian-backed militias in run-up, by killing, in Iraq, the head of all Iranian-backed anything #Soleimani. US may have just restored some escalation dominance. Whether it’s part of cogent strategy is different Qu
4/ Real US reckless action or declaration of war wld have been attacking Iranian soil. This admin determined that the cost of tolerating Soleimani alive had now exceeded the benefits of not killing him. We must wait and see whether that was the right call, no one knows today.
5/ The most important part of Soleimani’s killing, isn’t his killing (as big as that is), it is the deep US intelligence penetration around Iran’s most important military leader that it revealed. Signals and human intel. This is what is going to spook the Iranian camp the longest.
6/ Why did US claim the #Soleimani kill, instead of following the Israeli ambiguity playbook? US and Israel have different roles and capacities. The US is the mightiest military power around, owning attacks cld be part of deterrence, showing force, restoring escalation dominance.
7/ What happens next: let’s be clear, no one knows for sure, even those who will decide some of the next steps.
The Iranian regime is not suicidal, it is strategic, calculating (even if it miscalculates sometimes), so likelihood of an all-out direct US-Iran war is low.
8/ Khamenei promised response, it must be strong enough to save face internally, for a regime already strained + facing popular dissent, and also be calibrated to avoid provoking a US response inside Iran. Iran response will show whether deterrence restored.
9/ The myth of invincibility that Iran built around Soleimani was a huge recruitment tool, it may also now turn out to be a double-edged sword. How does its most valiant warrior, its most effective US challenger, get picked off so precisely by the US?
10/ Concern for US military, diplo personnel, and citizens, in the region is legit. But allowing it to dictate policy plays into Iran’s hands which weaponises Western sensitivity to human loss, and war weariness, to further destabilise the region unchecked.
11/ There are many so-called anti-imperialists who always criticise Western intervention but justify Iranian/Russian intervention. Iran is not a legit actor in Iraq/Syria/Leb/Yemen. Its crimes there are no less reprehensible than those by the US or colonialists.
12/ Iran is set to announce its next violations of the JCPOA in next few days. That’s another thing to look out for, other than a military retaliation, in wake of today’s #Soleimani kill. Will it escalate to the point of affecting break-out time or not?
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I see the jewish warmongers are at it again. We have no business interfering in the middle east. If israel wants to stick its nose in other countries’ affairs, it should do it alone, without “big brother” the USA being involved.
If I were Iran, I would shut off the flow of oil. Shut down the strait of Hormuz. It might be painful for us in the USA, but so what? I would be willing to weather a disruption in the world oil supply, and would not blame Iran for doing so.
I, for one, have had enough of seeing MY country hijacked for israeli interests.
If the 40 or so dual-citizenship congress critters in MY country want to fight for israel, they can go over there themselves.
It is long overdue for us American citizens to take back our country from the clutches of israel and the jews.
In decades past, I used to chuckle whenever hearing someone discuss ZOG (zionist occupation government) but no more. In fact, we have been taken over by that “sh!tty little country” in the middle east.
We don’t get our oil from that area. China does … Japan, etc. So, on a strictly supply source look, in theory we’d be unaffected. ‘course, it wouldn’t wash out that cleanly.
You are correct. However, since oil prices are figured on a worldwide basis, we would see an increase in oil prices.
Regards,
The Clinton administration was a continuation of the Bush Sr. administration.
The Bush Jr. administration was a continuation of the Clinton administration.
The Obama administration was a continuation of the Bush Jr. administration.
The Trump administration is a continuation of the Obama administration.
SEE A PATTERN YET?
To those paying attention over the years, Trump’s desire to intervene in Iran, and his subsequent support in the media should come as no surprise as it has been the plan since Bill Clinton was in office and was documented in the neoconservative PNAC report. This was even admitted by General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, that the U.S. planned on going to war with Iran, according to a 2001 memo from the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
https://youtu.be/9RC1Mepk_Sw
We know that Trump is an oil thief from the many PROVEN references I gave yesterday.
In November, it was reported that in the in the south-western province of Khuzestan in Iran, officials announced that they discovered an area containing over 53 billion barrels of oil. While this attack may not be specifically over oil, unlike government, the market doesn’t lie. On Friday, as the DOW tanked with war looming, oil prices spiked.
What’s more, the decision to wage war in Iran has received bipartisan support in Washington. Last month, Democrats and Republicans came together to strip a provision from the NDAA that called for no authorized war with Iran.
Crucial point: The vast majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives just joined Republicans in voting in support of an outlandish $738 billion military budget — after stripping a provision that would have blocked Trump from waging war on Iranhttps://t.co/IMU00pSb8R
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 3, 2020
The U.S. no better off than when it began its crusade after the 9/11 attacks. Instead, this cycle of violence and revenge has produced nothing but “blowback” in the form of global anti-Americanism.
Which brings me to President Donald Trump’s worst decision yet, one for which he actually should be impeached, not the circus of Ukraingate or Russiagate.
All wars are bankers wars. Trump loves the bankers and is an Rothchild agent.
“I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers.”
-Major General Smedly D. Butler
Who are those (((bankers)))?
Didn’t you mean (((Banksters)))?
Per a guy at work said his brother was heading for the Strait of Hormuz, but he posted on face book that he can’t say much other than it’s on like Donkey Kong.
Carry on…
This just officially marks the start of World War Jew.
They have been saying ‘death to America’ for as long as they have been a state.
Fu*k em
Fuck ’em. They hate us no matter what. How’s that appeasement shit working out wherever Muslims gather?
Wise up.
They hate the Jews, they hate the Christians, they hate the Buddhists, they hate the atheists; they hate anything and anybody that is not under Islamic control. They even hate each other over seemingly minor disagreements. If you don’t agree, then you have no understanding of Islam as portrayed by its very own words. Research is a good thing.
Islam is not a political entity, it is a theocratic entity and every last thing done is with one goal; the appearance of the 12th Imam and all that that portends. The means to produce that is, in their own words, nuclear holocaust.
Look beyond your short-sightedness and recognize Islam for what it is. Put aside for a moment the Zion stuff, and whether or not the US is an issue; judge Islam on its own merits or lack thereof.
Research Taqiyya and then ask yourself if you can believe one thing any Muslim says.
They want to enslave and kill you if you do not accept Islam. Period.
Whether I agree or not about the level and dangers of Jewish/Zionist influence, this goes far beyond that. Ditto with the US, and all the corruption and destruction wrought over the last many years. That is a whole ‘nother topic. And, while important regardless of opinion, pales in significance to the stated goals of Islam.
Widen your scope, guys. Ease up on the laser-focused ‘Jews behind every bush’ thinking. It blinds you to other threats and concerns.
You can’t “set aside the Zion stuff” because that is pivotal to the entire reason we end up in one conflict over there after another. Our policy should be to let Israel fight her own wars, quit monkeying around in the ME and use the resources we waste over there to secure our own border.
Pay attention. That was, by inference, to set aside for the sake of this specific argument.
And Islam would still be coming for us, regardless. I hear what your saying, but it won’t make one iota of difference. I agree that we should never have gotten to where we are, but here we are.
No, Islam wouldn’t be ‘coming for us’ without Jewish subversion of Western nations. The Jews have literally opened the gates, once again. Absent the Jew, there is no muslim problem.
The muslims are just a symptom, the Jews are the disease.
Oh, yeah; just kill all the Jews and all of a sudden we’ll all get along like peaches and cream. There’s no evil in the whole wide beautiful world except for those rotten kikes. I bet they even conspired to keep your dick at 1″.
I started to write a long rebuttal but the hell with that – your a pussy anonymous coward and a complete moron to boot. Fuck off, retard. Muslim ass-kissing motherfucker. There’s no need for any “Jewish subversion’ with complete fools like you running around to enable Islam.
Fucking useful idiot and sword-bait.
Eat a bullet, rabbi, you child-raping parasite.
I’m not Jewish, Anonymoron. You are so deficient in thinking you can’t even grasp that what I’ve been talking about has nothing to do with Jews, only the threat imposed by Islam. Your cognitive and critical thinking skills are about, by my guess, at roughly the same level as a banana slug. Your ability to research would be, from what I can see, at about the level of “What happens if I forget to breath?” You have the exact same thought processes and level of reasoning power as, say, Occasional Cortex. Oh, excuse me, I better not assume you can figure that out – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. There, fixed it for you.
Bye, bye. Yell upstairs and say goodnight to your mommy, like a good little boy.
“what I’ve been talking about has nothing to do with Jews, only the threat imposed by Islam”
You are wrong, as Anon pointed out. This has everything to do with Jews. Islam is simply one of their tools.
You again use ad hominem, because anon is right, and you have no meaningful counter argument.
He isn’t wrong. The entire mess we have today is the direct result of increasingly destructive American foreign policy over the past century – a foreign policy which is wholly Jewish today, solely benefiting Israel at our great expense.
You make no counter argument, resorting to empty ad hominem attack, because you know he is correct – and anything you would put forth would be transparent bullshit.
You forgot to mention the hatred of Muslim against Muslim.
Genesis 16: 10-12 tells of the future of what was to become Islam when Abraham had a child with his wife’s slave Hagar. It is Ishmael that the Muslims believe Abraham was going to sacrifice instead of Isaac, at the location of what is now the Dome of the Rock, or to the Jews The Temple Mount. Notice the last verse about Ishmael.
“And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
Actually I did.
They even hate each other over seemingly minor disagreements.
My mistake, right you are, old eyes giving out I guess. Your comment was good by the way.
Thank you. Many don’t seem to grasp what I’m trying to say. An almost obsessive myopia.
Where are the American soldiers?
You’re kidding?
Look to the left.
Trick question.
Answer?
There aren’t any. Plenty of US equipment, bought and paid for at taxpayer expense. The giveaway is not seeing any US insignia, flags, or patches.
Not in that picture. We stopped wearing desert pinks back in 04.
Yet the conspiriTards think they see “Americans” in some Twatter link because it’s what they want to see. The US Army has changed uniform patterns no less than twice since then.
Excellent find Motley!
This will certainly throw a monkey wrench in the TBP (which is really MSM) narrative here. Looks like the statists, government and Trump worshipers got some splainin to do now.
Explain what? You are witnessing the age-old US practice of arming our enemies and once the useful is over, they become enemy no. 1. Bin Laden, Saddam, Quadaffi, et al. Then coast to Egypt and Mubarack and Obama’s push to get the Muslim Brotherhood in power. Think the Arab Spring was spontaneous?
Saudi Arabia and Israel drive American policy in the mideast. Ditto Raytheon and Brown and Root and a host of other companies….
You didn’t read the tweets reiteration of the pentagons accusation?
This was the claims made by the pentagon, not me, not Syrian Girl.
None of what you just posted even is relevant to the post or the statements made by the pentagon AT ALL. Learn to read.
The Twatter post by “Syrian Girl” is BS.
There are no US soldiers in that picture although you might see US equipment and uniforms displayed, all bought and paid for at US taxpayer expense. When I left Iraq as a contractor the Department of State entity I was working for donated all the modified Chevy trucks to the Iraqi police. Part of my job was to removing the comms gear within as brand-new up-armored Suburbans arrived as replacements from Ohio, then refitting the new Suburbans with radios, GPS, and DVR/cameras.
In AssCrackiStan units were leaving behind MRAPs and Hummers for the stupid Hadjis, same with Iraqis, so don’t be misled by some dumbass broad who would like to stir sh*t just to troll people who don’t know any better.
Foreign troops don’t wear US uniforms.
Oh, bullshit. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
So whose troops is it in the pic thats wearing American uniforms?
Couldn’t tell you, they might be American. The Sovereign Nation policies in these conflict areas, the Rules of Engagement and pure fuckery that goes on means they could very well be American. I was calling bullshit on your specific comment. Try to focus.
Who, you ask? Either US supplied Iraqi personnel or militia.
Patterns in fabric mean squat for the most part, unless you were a US Marine wearing genuine US MARPAT. The med-reg sized MARPATs I was issued in 2004 had a distinctive globe and anchor within the pattern weave and a red-black-gold label sewn to the inside collar. That uniform was made expressly for the Corps by Propper.
That said, I doubt I’d want to get close enough to anyone in that photo to truly verify, anyhoo – unless it was within grenade range. LOL
e.d. ott –
I was stationed at an emergency air field in Somalia in the mid 80s for a while. Even the damn goat herders had US uniforms, a couple of jeeps and M-16s. All part of the deal to keep the runway clear when planes were coming in, and to watch for thieves in the night. And our own Marine guards weren’t even allowed to have their mags installed unless there was an immediate threat. In the meantime, the goat herders were blasting away all over the place. The only difference in uniform was, as you say, official patches and insignia.
What concerns me is a universal theme I’ve seen on the media coverage… ” Beware of an impending terror attack on America as retaliation”…… seems like a perfect set-up for a nice false flag event and then American outrage leads to another effin war.
This one may lead to much higher stakes and blood ( and trillions more for the MIC). I hope I’m wrong and just being paranoid but I’ve seen this Hegelian method used over and over.
That’s how the United False Flag States Of AmeriKa flies!
Red flag.
*scratches head theatrically*
Where have I heard that buzz word before?
This is almost a textbook repeat of 911, oops, my bad, 9/11
Subtle they are not.
Predictable. Puerile. Blatant.
Does get tiresome, doesn’t it? How to make it stop is the pressing question.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/the-revenge-for-the-assassination-of-qassem-soleimani.html
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/the-revenge-for-the-assassination-of-qassem-soleimani.html
Motley, I just got around to reading that article and it makes more sense than the MSM spin and Smith-Mundt Modernization Act compliant and approved news posted here on TBP.
We are pretty good a bombing things. Bomb the dang red flag. A little levity before the collapse
Hit Iran’s oil refinery’s and the crude oil export facilities and sit back and watch the place tear itself apart.
The much vaunted “terrorist threat” of Iranian backed groups is overblown. The effort and energy they put into even moderate size hits is ridiculous. Degrade their capabilities even a bit and watch them flounder. Look at how they decided to fight tanks in the ’80’s. Shia’s have a tendency to self harm.
The only way they are a threat is if you aren’t prepared to respond in the appropriate manner.
Making a mountain of skulls convinced worshipers of the flame to worship the open sky instead.
“The much vaunted “terrorist threat” of Iranian backed groups is overblown.”
I guess we’re going to find out. Though, I can’t help but wonder how much of the ‘Iranian’ terrorism – particularly if it occurs in the US – will actually be false flags, to be used to further destroy our liberties.