Iran said on Monday that its forces launched ballistic missile strikes in Iraq and Syria that targeted “spy headquarters and the gathering of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” as regional tensions continue to soar.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said the strikes in Syria targeted ISIS members who were involved in the recent bombing in Kerman, Iran, which killed 94 people. ISIS had taken responsibility for the January 3rd attack, which targeted a commemoration ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by the US in 2020.
The IRGC said the strikes in Iraq targeted “the espionage headquarters of Israel’s Mossad” in Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital of Erbil. Multiple missile strikes were reported in Erbil near the US consulate, but there’s no indication the facility was hit.
“No US facilities were impacted. We’re not tracking damage to infrastructure or injuries at this time,” a US official told ABC News.
Iran did not specify why it targeted the alleged Mossad headquarters, but the strikes come about a month and a half after Israel killed a senior IRGC official in Syria. Iran has previously targeted the area in response to an Israeli attack, and Israeli assets are known to operate in Iraqi Kurdistan.
In March 2022, Iran launched strikes in Erbil after an Israeli attack on a drone facility in Kermanshah, Iran. At the time, a senior US official told The New York Times that the building Iran targeted did serve as an Israeli intelligence outpost and training facility. The official and another US official said Israel is known to have conducted intelligence operations against Iran from Kurdistan.
After Monday’s strikes, the Kurdish Regional Government denied the idea that there are Israeli bases in the region. According to Rudaw, which is based in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran’s attack on Erbil killed at least four civilians and wounded 17.
Here we go…
I do hope Biden’s knitting group don’t get their panties all in a twist just because someone else has joined their game!
They want war with Iran.
True, their laundry list is extensive.
They might get war with Iran. It would be a serious mistake. For a long list of reasons.
They can bring nothing to a war on Iran other than air power. And even if that were adequate (it isn’t), do they really think Russia and China are going to let them bomb Iran into submission?
They took out a major player:
Video of the attack
Very interesting .
Indeed, while the initial report was 4 ballistic missiles, it turns out to have been 3 Fatteh class missiles and a Shahed class drone that hit the facility. Here’s a picture of the aftermath on that particular target.
Edit: There’s been a further update on the strike from Vanessa Beeley that reports the use of newer long range missiles from SW Iran near the border.
https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/23960
Looks like they wanted to be certain.
Things are starting to spiral. Israel and the USA need to wise up or we are going to see a regional war and Israel (at least in it’s current form) will not survive.
Iran attacks and you point fingers are Israel and USA.
Why not at the attacker?
Did you say Hamas needed to wise up when they attacked Israel? No, you blamed Israel.
Did you say Russia needed to wise up when it invaded and annexed Ukraine? No, your dumbass blamed it on Ukraine, US, and the West.
You idiots are ridiculous.
Once again you leave out any historical context. History only starts at that point in time which is beneficial for your neocon ideology.
Absolutely
It OK to fire missiles on a sovereign state and kill a target and his family as long as it is in the right context. This is the antiwar way..
Show me where I made any value claims.
I’m wondering where Iraq stands on this. Israel attacks Syria regularly. Maybe Ethan has something to say about 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.
Not much to say.
killing Iraqis and Syrians is perfectly OK as long as it is in the right, antiwar context.
Iran and iraq killed 1-2 millions of their own in the 80’s.
no one really cared until Saddam threatened some oil barrels.
No one is saying this is ok. Quite the opposite, we are saying this escalation is worrying. I love how you just make up strawmen to suit your ideological needs. Neocons are intellectually depraved, aren’t they?
That last sentence really does say it all. The UK and the US were so determined to control Iran’s oil that they imposed regime change on Iran’s first democratically elected President. And it seems to me that GW Bush lost interest Iraq as soon as oil was privatized there.
Says the guy that comes here to support Putin in Ukraine.
You could also show me where I “support Putin in Ukraine.” In your mind any analysis that doesn’t predict a quick Ukrainian victory is “supporting Putin.”
Oh GTFOH with this “show me” BS.
Every single response you provide to my comments (and sometimes in a very emotional fashion) is to defend your boy Putin, justify his action, and bash America. You are a Putin supporter. Don’t pretend.
You must be delusional just like Wars.
No show me. Provide one comment where I support Putin. You wont’ because you can’t. End of story.
I don’t “bash America.” What I do is criticize the policies of its corrupt and morally depraved rulers. America and her people are just as much victims as the citizens of Ukraine. The fact that you can’t separate America from its rulers tells a lot about you and what kind of person you are, i.e. fascist scum.
Yes. This is par for the course when it comes to neocons and their myrmidons. Always start in the middle of a history where you can score the most advantage and ignore the beginning where the problem was caused in the first place.
It’s a disease.
I suppose you are one of the shortsighted, who thinks that the World started on October 7th 2023?
That’s a silly claim.
The World started the day I was born.
So you’re a slolipsist?
No he’s Don Julio under another guise.
I don’t think that’s true
I withdraw the charge, at least old Don is semi-literate.
Maybe. Is that good?
No, definitely not. It’s a sign of narcissism.
I suppose you are an idiot.
Why not at the attacker?
Turnabout is fair play… Duh!
Like i said,
Hypocrite.
Showy didn’t they have local allies who could have done this more quietly?
I’m sure they could have done it quietly. They seem to want to make a statement. Maybe something like, “Do unto others . . .”
Yes they did Dave… Presstv excerpt:
“The missile strike against the Mossad center, the statement said, was in retaliation for the recent assassinations of the resistance front’s commanders, especially those of the IRGC, by the Zionist regime.”
That’s fine, Hamas, Russia, Iran, and the Houthis can attack whoever they want whenever they want because, what’s that all these dipsh!t pro dictator bloggers here always say?
“Oh, they can do it because the US has done it many times, and they are doing it for peace”
Hypocrites. Lol.
True or propaganda?
IRAN MISSILE HITS US BASES
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/mL8C2-n0aYA
False…!
Iran bombs Syria. Israel bombs Syria. Turkey bombs Syria. USA bombs Syria. Did I forget some nation? Oh I did, Syria bombs certain parts of Syria. What a mess.
It’s almost like the U.S.A. shouldn’t have rat fucked the entire region.
Bernhard’s take at Moon of Alabama:
War On Gaza – Iran Demonstrates Its Means Of Self-defense
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/war-on-gaza-iran-demonstrates-its-means-of-self-defense.html#more
“”Iran said on Monday that its forces launched ballistic missile strikes…””
of course Iran said that …. according to uncle sam.
oh shit, inflation? Iran!
gasoline prices? Iran!
hurricanes and sinkholes, etc ? Iran!
WTF would uncle sam do if Iran weren’t here to be the bad-guy.
WTF i am almost an old man and i am getting tired of my government’s old man bull-shit.
what
Dumbass hypocrite.
Fascist scum.
In latest news, peaceful Iran also attacks Pakistan killing few children.
Waiting for the hypocrites here to blame it on US.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/17/middleeast/iran-missile-attack-pakistan-intl-hnk/index.html
Make Iran a signatory to any and ALL nuclear agreements! Immediately!!!
Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Thankfully.