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2020-01-02 Iraq

Summary of New Year’s Day’s events: Protesters withdraw from US embassy perimeter - Iraqi military

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1 Iranian Regime Under Seige, Maybe Attacking US ME Assets to Rally a unhappy population and are blaiming the US for domestic unrest.

Major Iran protests erupted in November 2019 triggering the greatest existential crisis in the regime's 40-year history. Protesters took to the streets in at least 191 cities calling for regime change. The regime has resorted to brute repression, killing at least 1500 protesters and arresting thousands more. It also shut down Iran’s internet completely for a week, blocking images of the protests from reaching the outside world.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE IRAN PROTESTS:
Number of restive cities: 191
Number of martyrs: At least 1500
Number of injured: More than 4,000
Number of detainees: More than 12,000

The protests began on November 15, 2019 over a three-fold rise in gasoline prices but in less than 24 hours, the chants became entirely political. Iranians are chanting “Death to Khamenei” and “Death to Rouhani” on the streets of Iran. They want regime change.

Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2020-01-02 00:47|| 2020-01-02 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 So members of some group attacked the embassy, and brought in tents and whatever, evidently planning to stay and continue their obnoxious behavior.
Trump threatened to retaliate against Iran if this continued,
The group quickly changed its plan and withdrew.
Sounds pretty wimpy on their side.
The Ayatollah got scared?

Posted by daniel 2020-01-02 00:49|| 2020-01-02 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 The other side didn't have the will to engage further with more US assets arriving, or they didn't think this was the time for an engagement.

Call it a half blink.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-02 00:52|| 2020-01-02 00:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Knowing they will gain nothing more than the initial media splash, they are likely fading away to avoid detention and interrogation.

Protecting their network is now the goal.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-02 04:07|| 2020-01-02 04:07|| Front Page Top

#5 #Restart and #MIGA are two hashtag vectors into Persian Opposition social media.

Posted by mossomo 2020-01-02 09:33|| 2020-01-02 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 As our family Marine Sargent likes to say, "We aren't trained to 'hurt' you."

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-01-02 11:05|| 2020-01-02 11:05|| Front Page Top

#7 the US military did a fine job

the Iraqi military did essentially nothing

no surrounding the wannabe terrorists (calling them protestors is basically a lie) when they were breaking in and no arrests when the terrorists left

Posted by lord garth 2020-01-02 12:39|| 2020-01-02 12:39|| Front Page Top

#8 This is exactly like Benghazi, except for no Americans dying and the President immediately dispatching Marines, Apaches and a unit of the 82nd Airborne to the scene.

Posted by Matt 2020-01-02 12:51|| 2020-01-02 12:51|| Front Page Top

#9 ...and he twitted his actions, not sending errand boys and girls to lie on the MSM outlets about what transpired.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-02 13:50|| 2020-01-02 13:50|| Front Page Top

#10 And not trying to cover up illegal acts with the blood of American soldiers and civilians.

Posted by gorb 2020-01-02 17:35|| 2020-01-02 17:35|| Front Page Top

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