| Iran’s Mad Mullahs had a bright idea, and now the Iraqi government is scurrying to execute. Only who is going to bell this particular cat? |
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
over the death of Iran’s Quds Force commander, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, on Iraqi soil, according to a state-run media outlet based in Baghdad.
Actually, I think it was in the back seat of a car - Ginsu-opened sunroof
Iraqi News noted that "President of the Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zaidan, announced on Thursday the issuance of an arrest warrant for former U.S. President Donald Trump." The warrant is also for the killing of the then-Iraqi militia leader, chief of staff of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq.
The killing of the Quds Force and militia commanders led to a counterstrike from Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
against the Aia al-Assad U.S. base in Iraq.
Citing the reports, OilPrice.com noted:
The arrest warrant charges Trump with premeditated murder. While the warrant is clearly symbolic, a conviction of this nature carries the death penalty
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The court said the investigation into the killings was still ongoing, AP reported.
Citing Baghdad Today news agency, IraqiNews quoted Supreme Judicial Council head Faiq Zaidban as calling on Baghdad to hold Trump "accountable for this heinous crime."
In January 2020, NBC News reported that Trump himself approved the strike against Soleimani roughly seven months earlier. A previous presidential directive authorizing it came "with the condition that Trump would have final signoff on any specific operation to kill Soleimani," according to officials who spoke with the outlet.
The outlet added:
After Iran shot down a U.S. drone in June, John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser at the time, urged Trump to retaliate by signing off on an operation to kill Soleimani, officials said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also wanted Trump to authorize the liquidation, officials said.
But Trump rejected the idea, saying he’d take that step only if Iran crossed his red line: killing an American. The president’s message was "that’s only on the table if they hit Americans," according to a person briefed on the discussion.
Previous administrations had identified Iran’s Quds Force as a terrorist organization and authorized sanctions against Soleimani and other officials associated with the military organization.
In April 2019, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton "helped prod Trump to designate the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization," NBC News stated.
"White House officials at the time refused to say whether that meant the United States would target Revolutionary Guard leaders as it does the leadership of other terrorist groups, such as the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
krazed killer group and al Qaeda," the outlet said, noting that in retaliation, Iran designated the U.S. military a terrorist group.