United States Assassination Of Top Iranian Military Official May Ignite World War By Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-01-03 at 01:56:05 )

United States Assassination Of Top Iranian Military Official May Ignite World War By Ms Caitlin Johnstone

The United States has admitted to assassinating Irans most beloved military leader, General Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike which seems very likely to ignite a full-scale war. Six others are also reported killed, including Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

According to the Pentagon, President Trump personally ordered the assassination. I will keep following this hugely important story and will probably be writing a lot about it as it unfolds. I encourage everyone who values peace and humanity to follow it as well.

"Spoke to a very knowledgeable person about what Irans response to Mr. Soleimanis assassination might be," The Quincy Institutes Trita Parsi tweeted regarding this developing story. "This would be the equivalent of Iran assassinating Mr. Petreus or Mr. Mattis, I argued. No, he responded, this is much bigger than that."

"Most Americans will not understand the gravity of this," tweeted journalist Rania Khalek. "Qasem Soleimani is head of the Iranian IRGCs elite Quds Force, which conducts operations outside of Iran in both Iraq and Syria. He was credited with helping turn the tide in both countries against Al-Qaeda and ISIS."

"This is very serious," Ms Khalek added. "The United States essentially declared war on Iran by assassinating its most revered military figure in Iraq. And by also killing the head of the PMF, the United States created more enemies in Iraq. There will be regional retaliation. It is unlikely it can be prevented."

"If true, It is not an understatement to say this could change the entire Middle East," tweeted Risings Saagar Enjeti.

"There is going to be that war now that people have been pushing for since tanking the Iran Deal," tweeted The Intercepts Murtaza Mohammad Hussain.

"If this is true, the United States has effectively declared war on Iran, which has established militarily ties with Russia and China.

It is not hyperbole to say this could start WW3. Insane," tweeted Grayzones Dan Cohen, who also highlighted the important fact that "Iran, Russia and China held joint naval drills less than a week ago."

"Iranian sources in Iran are warning that killing Gen. Qasem Sulaimani spells war," tweeted Farnaz Fassihi of The New York Times. "Official reaction will begin with a strike, one says."

A proportionate retaliatory strike would necessarily entail an attack on United States military targets, or the military targets of United States allies.

If that happens, either the empire stands down or we are looking at an all-out war of a size that is potentially almost limitless.

Months after Donald Trump took office it was reported that the Central Intelligence Agency had escalated covert operations in Iran, and the administration has been escalating tensions with that nation further and further ever since it announced its withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 on completely false pretenses.

The withdrawal was followed by waves of debilitating, civilian-starving sanctions implemented with the goal of provoking civil unrest, a goal Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has openly admitted.

From there we saw increased United States military presence in the region, then the Iraqi-killing airstrikes earlier this week and the resulting tense angry standoff at the United States embassy in Baghdad, and now here we are with Iran planning retaliation for an unforgivable assassination on its most senior and revered military official.

Many are understandably claiming that this geostrategically pivotal confrontation was precisely what President Trump was installed to facilitate all along.

The largest donor to any campaign in 2016 was oligarch Sheldon Adelson, who gave $25 million to the Trump campaign, and who in 2013 said that the United States should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.

After Donald Trumps election win, Mr. Adelson gave another $5 million to his inauguration, the largest single presidential inaugural donation ever made. Newt Gingrich, another of the billionaires hired politicians, has said that Mr. Adelsons "central value" is Israel.

Make no mistake, Iran is not Iraq or Libya.

A full-scale war against Iran would be many times more deadly, costly and destabilizing than those interventions; the United Kingdoms Admiral Lord West told The Daily Star Online last year that winning such a war would require no less than a million troops, or nearly the total number of active duty United States military personnel in the entire world.

Even if a direct war with Iran did not lead to a confrontation with China, Russia and the other unabsorbed allies, it would still be worse than Vietnam and Iraq combined in terms of death, destruction, expense, and regional destabilization.

And now, as I sit as the mother of two teenagers watching what might be a third world war looming on the horizon, all I can think is about how infuriating it is that we have spent the last three years on Russia bullshit and sectarian political infighting instead of building an actual cohesive antiwar movement and pushing real opposition to Donald Trumps warmongering.

Let us get it together, humans. We need big changes, and we need them yesterday.

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