The AtlanticPolitics We’re Just Discovering the Price of Killing Soleimani The Atlantic - David FrumNo American paid a price for President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iran’s Qassem Soleimani. But it looks like 176 other people did, including 63 Canadian citizens and many more Iranian nationals en
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesPolitics Donald Trump’s rant against Iran is the howl of a dying empire The Guardian - Simon JenkinsDonald Trump does not strut the world stage as Augustus triumphant. On Wednesday he might have commanded that “Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon … we will never let that happen”. But
Politics The world is abandoning America theweek.com - Joel Mathis For three years, President Trump has tried to disentangle the United States from the burdens of world leadership. This week, it appears he has …
Liberal View Iran debacle is blowing up in Trump’s face as voters overwhelmingly call president ‘reckless’: report rawstory.com - Tom Boggioni According to a polling report from USA Today, Donald Trump’s decision to have Iranian Gen. Qassem Sulemaini killed is not sitting well with voters …
Reuters UKflipped into Top NewsIran's Revolutionary Guard Exclusive: Informants in Iraq, Syria helped U.S. kill Iran's... Reuters - Reuters staff(Reuters) - Iranian General Qassem Soleimani arrived at the Damascus airport in a vehicle with dark-tinted glass. Four soldiers from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards rode with him. They parked near a staircase
Associated Pressflipped into International NewsMiddle East Reports: Unidentified planes strike targets in eastern Syria Associated Press - By ZEINA KARAM, Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — Unidentified planes struck targets in Syria near the border with Israel on Friday, reports said, triggering “a huge explosion” amid soaring tensions in the region between the U.S. and Iran.
New York Magazineflipped into Daily IntelligencerPolitics Trump Complains About Not Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Days After Threatening to Commit War Crimes New York Magazine - Matt Stieb Days after authorizing an unambiguous act of war backed by a shoddy rationale, the president of the United States began this week by reiterating a …
Lordbregaflipped into Threat Assessment - USA Issues and ConcernsMiddle East Report: Warplanes target weapons shipment on Iraq-Syria border timesofisrael.com - By TOI staff Explosions were reported late Thursday at a base near the Iraqi-Syria border thought to be used by Shiite militias, in what was a suspected airstrike. …
CNNflipped into Top StoriesOpinion Preet Bharara to Georgia congressman: You've hit a shocking new low CNN - Opinion by Preet Bharara(CNN) — Dear Representative Doug Collins, You are not my congressman, and while I am ever thankful for that fact, after seeing your performance on Fox News on Wednesday night, I'm not sure you are fit
MSNBCPolitics Georgia's Collins takes Iran debate in an unusually toxic direction MSNBC - Steve Benen There’s no shortage of reasons to have concerns about Donald Trump’s decision to order an airstrike that killed an Iranian general last week. After …
New York Magazineflipped into Daily IntelligencerPolitics By 2-to-1 Margin, Voters Say Soleimani Strike Made U.S. ‘Less Safe’ New York Magazine - Eric Levitz The Trump administration can’t decide why it killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explained that the …
POLITICOMike Lee ‘I’ve never seen him like that’: Trump defends Iran briefing after GOP Sen. Lee lashes out POLITICO - By QUINT FORGEYPresident Donald Trump on Thursday defended senior administration officials from forceful criticism by Sen. Mike Lee, after the Utah Republican called their classified briefing on the killing of a top
Middle East Retired U.S. Army General Says United States Would Be Mistaken to Assume Iran Is Done foreignpolicy.com - Lara Seligman As a young general officer, one of retired Gen. Joseph Votel’s first jobs in the U.S. Defense Department was as the director of a task force …
Conservative View Iran Deal and Beyond: We're STILL Stuck Cleaning Up Very Stupid Obama Messes redstate.com - Seton Motley The Barack Obama Administration did a lot of very stupid things – in the pursuit of its very stupid Leftist ideology. In pursuit of its very stupid …
InsiderPoliticsHere's the unclassified copy of Trump's memo to the Senate informing it of the Soleimani strike, which shows a huge loophole Insider - Alexandra Ma A photo of an unclassified memo from President Donald Trump to the Senate informing it of his strike on Qassem Soleimani does not indicate that the …
David Saint Germainflipped into World NewsMiddle East Iran crisis: Commander says more air strikes were planned against US BBC NewsStrikes against US forces in Iraq could have been just the beginning of a major operation across the region if the US had responded, a senior Iranian commander is reported as saying. Quoted by state TV,
Bloombergflipped into BloombergOpinion Why Utah’s Mike Lee Might Actually Vote to Remove Trump Bloomberg - Jonathan Bernstein A Senate impeachment trial will present hard choices for a Republican lawmaker who deplores presidential overreach. A Senate impeachment trial will …
quietgeekgurlflipped into DUMP'S WAR ON ...Middle East Iran's Revolutionary Guards threaten 'more severe revenge': What could be next? CNBC - Natasha Turak Markets had a field day, rebounding dramatically from the scare following the overnight missile attack by Iran on U.S. forces in Iraq. The Nasdaq and …
Larryflipped into More Stuff . . .Middle East Iranian commander vows ‘harsher revenge soon’ against U.S. POLITICO - By QUINT FORGEYA leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Thursday threatened that his nation would extract “harsher revenge soon” against the United States after launching a missile strike against military bases in
TIMEflipped into Top StoriesWorld News Why the U.S. Assassination of Soleimani is a Windfall for Iran's Mullahs TIME - Karim SadjadpourMajor General Qasem Soleimani was born in 1957 to a self-described “peasant” family in Kerman, the sunbaked province in southeastern Iran famed for its pistachios, rose water and hospitable inhabitants.
The BulwarkDonald Trump Trump’s Treatment of U.S. Allies Comes Home to Roost The Bulwark - Shay Khatiri Qassem Soleimani was not just an enemy of the United States and the peoples of the Middle East—he was an enemy to many of our European allies, …
JerusalemPostflipped into Israel NewsWorld News Qasem Soleimani was no general - The Jerusalem Post jpost.com - By AMOTZ ASA-EL Saluting the ranks he wore, Qasem Soleimani’s many eulogizers made sure to preface his name with “general,” as the system he served crowned him: …
Cary Gillflipped into MineU.S. Military Trump says Soleimani was plotting to blow up US embassy in Baghdad americanmilitarynews.com - Ryan Morgan This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates as more information becomes available. President Donald Trump defended his decision to …
Cary Gillflipped into MineIsraeli Air Force How Israel Views Trump’s Strike Against Iran The New Yorker - Bernard AvishaiIn the United States, early analyses of the Trump Administration’s assassination of General Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, tended to come with corresponding analyses of Iran’s array
AJflipped into Middle EastWorld News Here’s what might happen if the U.S. were to suddenly quit Iraq The Washington Post - Rick NoackThe decision about whether to keep troops in Iraq may not be entirely up to the United States, though. On Sunday, the Iraqi parliament issued a nonbinding call for the American forces to leave. The next
The Jakarta Postflipped into All news from The Jakarta PostTehran Canadian PM says Iranian missile brought down airliner thejakartapost.com - Dave Chan Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday "multiple" intelligence sources indicate that Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner after it took …
News4Youflipped into US NewsIranian Professor is fired after saying Iran should bomb the Mall of America and the Kardashians' home dailymail.co.uk - By Lauren Edmonds For Dailymail.com A adjunct professor at a Massachusetts university is fired after suggesting Iran choose 52 American cultural sites -including the Mall of America and …
U.S. News & World ReportIraq Rocket Falls Near Iraqi Base Housing U.S. Troops: Police Sources U.S. News & World Report - Reuters TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A rocket fell on Thursday night in the Fadhlan area of the Dujail district in Iraq's northern Salahuddin province, police …
Benson Bakerflipped into Stuff To Think AboutIranian American Self-Criticism Borders on Narcissism The Atlantic - Shadi HamidMany on the left forget that not everything in the Middle East is about the United States. Those who said there will be war may not have realized there already was war. This doesn’t mean killing Iranian
Tampa Bay, FL Florida man accused of threatening to kill President Trump for taking out Iranian general wtsp.com - Author: Dale Greenstein (WTSP) BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — The targeted killing of Iran’s top general this week triggered a retaliatory strike from the rogue regime and a war of words …
