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2022-03-13 Iraq
Missiles fired from Iran fall near US consulate in Erbil, Iraq
Hattip US Under Attack.
[Jpost] No casualties were reported in the attack.
"Our partners in nuclear peace"
Some 12 missiles were fired from Iranian territory and fell near the US consulate in Erbil in northwestern Iraq on Saturday night.

The Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service announced that 12 ballistic missiles were fired from "outside the borders of Iraq and the Kurdistan region, specifically from the east," according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

Independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts shared videos reportedly shared by Iranian civilians showing missiles being fired from Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
at the time of the attack, with at least one of the videos being geolocated to a site in Khasabad in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran.
Tweeted videos can be seen at the link.
The governor of Erbil, Omed Khoshnaw, stated earlier in the night that multiple missiles fell in the area, saying it was unclear whether the target was the US consulate or the airport in the city.

While damages were reported in the attack, no casualties were reported.

The health minister of Kurdistan stated that there were no injuries or deaths reported in the attack on Saturday night. A US official told Rooters on Saturday night that there were no US military casualties in the attack.

The missile attack came as negotiations to return to the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran stalled in Vienna.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell tweeted on Friday that the talks in Vienna needed a "pause," due to "external factors." Borrell added that a final text is "essentially ready and on the table."

Iranian foreign ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh stated on Saturday that there were at least one or two key issues that the US and Iran had not yet reached an agreement on. He added that the two states disagree on how sanctions should be lifted, with Iran wanting more sectors released from sanctions and the US wanting less.

Iranian officials stated that it is unclear when negotiations will resume.



Funker530 adds more, with video at the link:
Breaking footage was just released, which reportedly shows multiple cruise missiles launched from Iran striking the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq.

Very few details have been released at this time, but the video apparently shows these missiles flying out from the Iranian Khasabad missile base in Eastern Azerbaijan Province.

Update from the Times of Israel at 11:40 a.m. ET:
Iran claims it targeted ‘strategic Zionist center’ in Iraq missile strike
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards take responsibility for the missile attack on the US consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil early this morning.
So now we know.
A "strategic center for conspiracy and mischiefs of the Zionists was targeted by powerful precision missiles," says a statement on the Guards’ official website.
They hit the local television station. So not terribly precise.
It warns that any future attacks by Israel "will face harsh, decisive & destructive responses."

Iranian state media agency IRNA, citing local reports, earlier claimed without evidence that “secret Israeli bases” were targeted in the attack.

The attack caused some material damage but no casualties.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Did General Milley call to let them know the US won't respond?
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-03-13 00:07||   2022-03-13 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent work TW.
Posted by US Under Attack 2022-03-13 00:07||   2022-03-13 00:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Now would be the time to really show the world America is not done yet. It would keep Putin in line, solve all mohameddan problems for the next five years, and re-establish morale.

Nuke them. Don't think twice about it. Nuke Tehran.
Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-13 00:10||   2022-03-13 00:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Welcome to the United States of Cucks

This is embarrassing
Posted by Slappy 2022-03-13 01:46||   2022-03-13 01:46|| Front Page Top

#5 And from the memory hole:

On November 4, 1979, 52 United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized hostages.

Wikipedia
Dates: Nov 4, 1979 – Jan 20, 1981 (444 days)
Location: Tehran, Embassy of the United States, Tehran

Over 40 years ago now, but as I recall, our Washington D.C. minders and thinkers did little if anything about it. Is there any question why the Iranians think they can get away with whatever they want ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-13 01:52||   2022-03-13 01:52|| Front Page Top

#6 PJ Media - Iran Plots to Murder John Bolton, Yet Biden’s Handlers Won’t Indict the Suspects
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-13 03:13||   2022-03-13 03:13|| Front Page Top

#7 This on the heels of Ulyanov publicly saying that the Iranians got 'everything they wanted and more' and while some of this administrations, uh, luminaries publicly floating the idea of buying Iranian oil.

No expert I, but it rather sounds as though we have an answer.
Posted by Cesare 2022-03-13 09:33||   2022-03-13 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 This on the heels of Ulyanov publicly saying that the Iranians got 'everything they wanted and more'

Knew Lenin had a hand in this.
Biden loves him some Leninism
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 09:37||   2022-03-13 09:37|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-13 09:57||   2022-03-13 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ circling back... to Tehran
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 09:58||   2022-03-13 09:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe these dummies will realize one day, it's not all puppy dogs and ice cream. There is real evil in this world that needs to be rubbed out. And it's not just abroad. I'm not holding my breath thou.
Posted by Slappy 2022-03-13 10:39||   2022-03-13 10:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Root out the evil at home ... and avoid going abroad in search of monsters to destroy
Posted by John Quincy Adams 2022-03-13 10:49||   2022-03-13 10:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Not very subtle.
Posted by Angstrom 2022-03-13 11:04||   2022-03-13 11:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Not very subtle
Nat'l Lampoon, the Aggression issue (Oct. 1980)
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 11:09||   2022-03-13 11:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Got to say, I really wouldn't be unhappy if Bolton was never able to screw up a future conservative president's efforts in foreign policy.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-13 11:26||   2022-03-13 11:26|| Front Page Top

#16 #4 the United States of Cucks
No cuck here:
"Nobody was ever tougher on Russia than me’: Trump says he’d be speaking to Putin to avoid WWIII
Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-13 11:59||   2022-03-13 11:59|| Front Page Top

#17 I read somewhere this morning that this is a newly built "embassy" and not currently staffed. Just because I read it doesn't make it true. Anybody else seen similar reports?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-13 12:04||   2022-03-13 12:04|| Front Page Top

#18 Iran claims responsibility, says they were hitting Israeli facility...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-13 12:09||   2022-03-13 12:09|| Front Page Top

#19 Over 40 years ago now, but as I recall, our Washington D.C. minders and thinkers did little if anything about it.

And also from the memory hole:

How about when the CIA overthrew the democratic government of Iran in the 1950s and installed the Shah, a brutal dictator whose Savak secret police terrorized the country?

No? Nobody knows about that one? Memory hole, eh.
Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-13 12:41||   2022-03-13 12:41|| Front Page Top

#20 I'm fast reaching the opinion that if someone nuked the US, Biden would do nothing.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-03-13 12:56||   2022-03-13 12:56|| Front Page Top

#21 Impressive, Lex. Multiple comments under three different nyms in the same thread. Why don't you get your own multiple-personality blog?
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-13 12:57||   2022-03-13 12:57|| Front Page Top

#22 Try again, Frank
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 13:03||   2022-03-13 13:03|| Front Page Top

#23 so iran got the no bid pentagon contract to destroy all evidence cuz the bengonzo crew is still recovering from kerosene burns and wrenched shoulders from swinging fire axes , how is the one they hit in the head still in charge of war policy specilizing in economics!?????
Posted by Greng Black3494 2022-03-13 13:11||   2022-03-13 13:11|| Front Page Top

#24 I'm fast reaching the opinion that if someone nuked the US, Biden would do nothing.

Not only that, he'd prolly send 2 million American prisoners to work in Moscow.

Posted by Slappy 2022-03-13 13:14||   2022-03-13 13:14|| Front Page Top

#25 He's already nuking us with nuclear sanctions, so why stop there?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 13:15||   2022-03-13 13:15|| Front Page Top

#26 being covered by NPR, NBC, NYTimes, WaPo

Biden Admin hasn't made an announcement yet.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-13 14:37||   2022-03-13 14:37|| Front Page Top

#27 Funny that the Ukrainian and the Russian negotiators issued statements today that they both expect a signed peace deal within days. Does Team Biden even have a clue as to what's going on in the world now?

Or are the Russians now in control of events from Kiev to Vienna to Tehran?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 14:48||   2022-03-13 14:48|| Front Page Top

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