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On May 19th, a Katyusha rocket hit near the US Embassy in Baghdad, in the fortified “Green Zone” within the Iraqi capital, the Iraqi military said in a statement.
BREAKING: Katyusha shelling on #Iraq Green Zone in Baghdad + blast in area near foreign embassies.
Comes 4 days after US pulled non-essential staff, amid tension w #Iran https://t.co/7LYU8ZRkZ8
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) May 19, 2019
?This a major escalation, at 8:29 PM a rocket was launched toward the Green Zone and the vicinity of the U.S Embassy from (Jisr al Amana ) neighborhood in Baghdad.
— Steven nabil (@thestevennabil) May 19, 2019
There were no casualties or losses as a result of the presumed attack.
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Iraqi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasoul told The Associated Press that a Katyusha rocket fell near the statue of the Unknown Soldier, less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy. He said the military was investigating the cause but that the rocket was believed to have been fired from east Baghdad. The area is home to Iran-backed Shiite militias.
A spokesman for U.S. Central Command, Bill Urban, said in a statement that Iraqi Security Forces are investigating the incident.
The rocket conveniently hit after all but critical staff were evacuated from Iraq just days earlier, due to expectations of an attack of some sort by Iran.
The US State Department was in close contact with Iraqi officials about the incident and investigations into its circumstances, the official said, adding that the “low-grade rocket” did not cause significant damage or impact any US-inhabited facilities.
Reuters cited an unnamed State Department official who said that no responsibility had been claimed, but Iran was blamed.
“But, we take this incident very seriously,” the State Department official said. “We will hold Iran responsible if any such attacks are conducted by its proxy militia forces or elements of such forces, and will respond to Iran accordingly.”
US President Donald Trump tweeted with an open threat to Iran, just hours after the alleged attack in Baghdad.
If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 19, 2019
In addition to US personnel being evacuated from Iran, on May 18th, Exxon Mobil also began evacuating from the southern Iraqi province of Basra.
Iraqi Oil Minister Thamer al-Ghadban said in a statement that he sent a letter to ExxonMobil asking for clarifications over the evacuation, saying the evacuation was because of “political tensions in the region” and not related to security.
He added that the evacuation of the oil giant’s foreign employees was “unacceptable and unjustified.” Al-Ghadban said he would be holding a meeting with ExxonMobil executives this week over the evacuation, adding that their departure was “temporary.”
The alleged rocket attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad is a rather obvious attempt at justifying recent US actions and reinforcing the narrative of Iran’s “evil plans.”
And if Iran did, in fact, want to carry out a dangerous attack, why would it do so on almost completely empty premises, days after discovering that the US had withdrawn its personnel?
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Crazy mustache will be blaming this on Iran militia.
Just like they have with the 4 damaged ships. Irrelevant damage but an excellent excuse………if you believe comic-strips.
The Jew AIPAC has only one goal, the destruction of Iran after the complete ravishing of Iraq and Syria. There are at least a thousand Mossad and IDF terror sponsors in Arbil and they will stage false flags to goad the US morons into a major suicidal war. Iran must test a nuke!
Iran will not test nukes for it is forbidden by Fatwa from the ayatollah himself.
As far as Im concerned, this is where the discussion stops.
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Bolton would make a good toilet brush.
Sure! How convenient, a low-grade rocket, fired from an Unknown location; around the eastern farmlands, by an Unknown person; maybe it was militias, or maybe it a single person (man, woman or even child) who grew tired of all the atrocities committed by the US in the middle east. And finally, fired at the tomb of an Unknown soldier. Sure! that should be reason enough for United States of Trump to launch a war against a nation that poses no threat to the US territory, let me be clear, poses no threat and it never had, killing thousands, maybe millions, destabilizing half the middle east and perhaps the world. Then the survivors of the thousands sun’s can tell their children “War started because someone fired a rocket and not because our constant bombing of sovereign nation’s.
False Flag, period.
It probably is Iran, but not directly. The US uses al Qaeda ISIS etc when it wants to retain plausible deniability when committing terror attacks, and Iran probably does the same.
It’s a good tactic, minimal violence from an unknown source, that forces the US to withdraw its forces, and stops them stealing Iraqi oil.
These attacks will intensify as Iraqis are fed up with a savage US occupation and as you correctly point out, the sheer magnitude of Iraqi OIL PLUNDER. The idiot Trump openly boasted on how US should just take over Iraqi oil.
You are correct, but it is now official.
1. Iraqi Government asked the US to leave, the US said no.
2. The Iraqi government is having a full vote inc. all MPs, to make it formal and then they will tell the US to leave ……. I think that it could be this coming Saturday.
3. If the vote passes through, they will formally asked the US to leave Iraq.
4. If the US says no; then the US will be forced out.
It makes sense, since the diplomats (whahaha), are or have been shipped out.
your very nice calling these people diplomats.
id call them occupying morrons.
Hay the land dwellers there are some groups in this world that want to fight brother with the brother and looking for excuses to invade you. Remember such groups are really in danger.
Well, considering the real holocaust of Iraq wrought upon by American warmongers for their Zionist masters, it is no surprise that Iraqis are gearing up for another war of liberation to get rid American savages. US has destroyed Iraq, a once secular and prosperous Arab nation with a revolutionary bent. The Yinon Zionist regional domination plan saw Iraq as the only Arab nation that it could not subdue, so it goaded the dumb brainwashed American trash to attack and destroy Iraq and now use it as a base to destabilize Iran, spread Salafist terror in region and loot every barrel of Iraqi oil. The Iraqis should be attacking the US brutal occupation forces every hour and should be showing the Wikileaks videos on their media of how US cowards gunned down peaceful Iraqi women and children and starved the children of Iraq since 1991.
Excellent. This is a true picture of these cowards.
In other word, a mortar shell/Katyusha rocket fell in the park (empty lot) in front of Iraqi parliament. The people firing the shell were good enough to leave the mortar gun to be found (some articles like this one say a Katyusha rocket, some other say a mortar and published the picture of the said mortar gun. I wonder why there was no Iranian passport near it!?)
On a more important development, on Friday there was an explosion and subsequent fire in an Israeli base, “Tel HaShomer”, which is an IDF base (HQ, logistics, ordnance) and also houses facilities manufacturing Merkava tanks and also some “medical” centers, both military and civilian. The news of explosion is under total black out by western MSM, but some sources (jpost) only briefly mentioned the fire. PressTV, Sputnik and some others (alManar, AMN, etc) reported the incident, copy-pasting from each other. Israel says there was no causalities or injuries, you know, as always! The thick black smoke was clearly visible from Tel Aviv.
We’ll never hear the truth in this (or similar) regard from Israel or the US. I just find it curious that quite a few incidents happened in a short span of days, including but not limited to these two (Baghdad and Tel HaShomer), ships near Fujairah and Aramco pipeline and also a visible change in the attitude of US administration (and even Israeli regime), saying they are not interested in or seeking war with Iran. Very uncharacteristic of them, perhaps they’ll revert to their-true-warmongering-self shortly.
Agree about this incident and the tanker ‘sabotage’ but the Houthi drone attack on the Saudi pipeline was real but so what. The KSA has dropped hundreds of thousands of bombs on Yemen, why shouldn’t they fight back.
The goons on FOXNN make it sound like Iran snapped their fingers and special ordered up a terrorist attack from their ‘vast NW of terror’.
Hahaha.. Even a borderline retard could see through these Hollywood-esque False flag scripts…??
“And if Iran did, in fact, want to carry out a dangerous attack, why would it do so on almost completely empty premises, days after discovering that the US had withdrawn its personnel?”
False flags are like that, low on facts and relying on propaganda to carry the day. I guess the same people (or disciples of) that planned the 9/11 attacks for an excuse of unlimited war around the world, won’t rest until they find just the right combination of false flags that the psychopaths can use as an excuse for their dirty war.
eventually, they’ll rest. some of them are already resting.
to improve the aim. for the next do not fail
Not just a False Flag, but very cheap False Flag. Not very creative, they need something better to start a war.
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“you need to be a moron like Trump to believe this crap.. ”
Or like Bolton and Pompeo, to believe other people will believe your narrative.
False flag may be their friends in IS, Israel, Saudi UAE have done it to get America to do their job for them. But it will be messy and with genocidal Trump at the helm they think this is possible. Have they paid for the land or did they steal it, the embassy is like a city.
Oh please, this site is biased, you’re all talking as if iran is a peace loving country, do you what kind of atrocities the houthis are doing in yemen. Or how many people they hang in iran in monthly basis. Just because we hate the west doesn’t mean we don’t say the truth about iran
bwahahahaha
how did you articulate all that with saudi cock in your mouth. yemen is for yemeni people, not saudi puppets.
go drink some salt water its good for you.
Only one people hate Iran, and thats zionists.
Iranian people saved the jews many times over the years, and this is the thanks you give them?
pfff stupid petulant child!
As a typical yank , you speak nothing but of disgusting sexual reference. The iranian regime is hated all over. Who said anything about jews? Who is backing the houthis u dumb bastered? Yemen was fine before the destructive iranian regime startes a proxy war there. Ignorant iranian apologist!
wow another bolton master manuever. or is it a masturbation?
the empire is collapsing into a MEGA looney tune.
just one plausible cause – the squatters again plotting away like eager beavers to embroil moronistan (aka usa – home of bought and paid for israel shills) in yet another middle east bound to fail venture at the expense of the american tax-payers while the squatters sit it out.
only one thing to do – evict the murdering thieving bunch of squatters on stolen palestinian land once and for friggin all. no peace in the world with the squatters running moronistan as their own private fiefdom.
“And if Iran did, in fact, want to carry out a dangerous attack, why would it do so on almost completely empty premises, days after discovering that the US had withdrawn its personnel?”
Because when you have become an idiotic crippled whore you believe that all the others reason in the same way you do – that’s why the US threw a grad rocket at their empty building – and missed.