Netanyahu backs away from Soleimani assassination, warns ministers to 'stay out' of purely 'American event'
rt.com | 2020-01-07
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly warned his cabinet not to get too involved in the US murder of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, lest Tel Aviv gets dragged into the escalating conflict between Washington and Tehran. | "The assassination of Soleimani isn't an Israeli event but an American event. We were not involved and should not be dragged into it," Netanyahu reportedly told his security cabinet during a meeting on Monday, as cited by Israel's Channel 13. He advised ministers to avoid speaking to the media about Thursday's targeted assassination beyond supporting the US right to defend itself, so…
rt.com/news/477604-netanyahu-distances-israel-soleimani-killing/
Iraqi PM reveals Soleimani was on peace mission when assassinated, exploding Trump's lie of 'imminent attacks'
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-06
The Trump administration claimed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was planning "imminent attacks" on US interests when it assassinated him. That…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/06/soleimani-peace-mission-assassinated-trump-lie-imminent-attacks/
Targeted Assassination, Will Iran Seek "Strategic Revenge"?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
The US and Western partners are contemptuous of peace, stability, equity, justice, and the rule of law — waging war on humanity by hot and other means. | Where is the outrage in the West over the Trump regime's assassination of …
globalresearch.ca/us-led-western-contempt-rule-law/5699704
Native People urge peace and friendship with Iran, demand U.S. get out of Iraq
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Native Americans spoke out today, urging peace and friendship with the people of Iraq and Iran, and called out Trump for assassinations and provocations to escalate war.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829437.php
Monterey Protest: No War on Iran! U.S. Out of Iraq!
Monterey Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Window On The Bay / Monterey Waterfront Park, Del Monte Ave, Monterey, California 93940…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/03/18829421.php
No War with Iran! (San Mateo)
San Mateo Peace Action | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
corner 3rd Ave and El Camino | 300 So El Camino Real | San Mateo, CA 94402…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829424.php
Jan 4, 2020: 5,000 March for Peace in San Francisco
We Are The Many | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
With only two days' notice and during the winter vacation, some 5,000 people managed to take over the streets of San Francisco, filling two wide blocks near Fifth and Mission, as we marched past the San Francisco Chronicle building on January 4, 2020, a clear, sunny 55 degree day for a peace march protesting Nazi Trump's war against Iran.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829441.php
Sacramento Protest: U.S. Troops Out of Iraq! No War on Iran!
ANSWER Coalition & others | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Intersection of 9th Street and K Street, Downtown Sacramento…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/03/18829419.php
No to Disastrous War With Iran
Joseph Gerson | commondreams.org | 2020-01-06
Trump's ignorant threat of responding to Teheran's retaliation by destroying 52 critical targets across Iran can only result in spiraling escalation and to wider war that will consume lives across the Middle East and likely here in the United States. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/iran_protest.png …
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Trump's Iran Aggression Sparks Protests Across America, World
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-06
The weekend saw more than 70 spontaneous or hastily organized demonstrations across America in opposition to the Trump administration's warlike actions against Iraq and Iran. On January 3, the United States carried out a drone strike in Baghdad that killed Major General Qasem Soleimani of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soleimani was commonly se…
mintpressnews.com/trump-iran-aggression-protests-america-world/263933/
Amid rising protests, House plans vote against Trump war on Iran
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-06
WASHINGTON–Amid rising protests in the streets and online against President Donald Trump's looming war on Iran, the Democratic-run U.S. House plans to vote on a measure banning that war without congressional approval. The resolution, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues, will invoke the 1973 War Powers Act and order Trump not to go to …
peoplesworld.org/article/amid-rising-protests-house-plans-vote-against-trump-war-on-iran/
Trump says 'more war,' people say 'no war'
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-06
Anti-war protests were held across the US and UK over the weekend in response to the targeted assassination of Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Al-Quds forces. People protested in around 80 cities in the US against this provocative act which has been widely condemned for bringing the entire West Asia to the brink of war.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/06/trump-says-more-war-people-say-no-war/
Protest in Davis: No War on Iran! U.S. Troops Out of Iraq!
Yolo Grassroots Collective | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
B Street and 5th Street, Davis, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/03/18829420.php
Urgent Call For Action Against A U.S. War On Iran
Democratic Socialists of America | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) emphatically opposes a U.S. war with Iran. In light of the U.S.'s act of war against Iran, putting the two nations close to the brink of war, DSA calls on all members and chapters to mobilize against yet another U.S. war in the Middle East.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829433.php
Iraq's Worst Fears Have Come True: a Proxy War on Its Doorstep
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-06
The killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani by a US drone at Baghdad airport is an act of escalation by President Donald Trump that ensures that Iraq faces a violent future. It may not lead to a full-scale military conflict, but Iraq will be the political and military arena where the US-Iranian rivalry will be fought out.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/iraqs-worst-fears-have-come-true-a-proxy-war-on-its-doorstep/
The Inauthentic Opposition is "Stunned" by a Crime it Encouraged
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-06
Top Democrats are "stunned" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of "the commanding general of a sovereign government" (New York Times) — Iran's Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani –on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq's government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/the-inauthentic-opposition-is-stunned-by-a-crime-it-encouraged/
The Inauthentic Opposition is "Stunned" by a Crime it Encouraged
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-06
Top Democrats are "stunned" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of "the commanding general of a sovereign government" (New York Times) — Iran's Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani –on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq's government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/the-inauthentic-opposition-is-stunned-by-a-crime-it-encouraged/
The "Great Game" is Afoot: Killing Soleimani Reflects US Desperation in the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-06
By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom 'out of the frying pan into the fire.' US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are both politically and legally embattled — the former has just been impeached and the latter is dogged by an Attorney General …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/the-great-game-is-afoot-killing-soleimani-reflects-us-desperation-in-the-middle-east/
Was Soleimani Framed by Trump? In Baghdad to Receive US Supported "De-escalation Proposal" from Saudi Arabia
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
On January 5, Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi reportedly provided additional details into the US assassination of the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Qods Force, Qassem Soleimani. | According to the available data, the Iranian commander arrived in …
globalresearch.ca/iraqi-prime-minister-soleimani-arrives-baghdad-receive-de-escalation-proposal-saudi-arabia-trump-supported-initiative/5699777
Trump's Mass Deception on Iran
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
Virtually all politicians lie, none in memory more repeatedly and egregiously than Trump. | It's so excessively over the top it begs the question. Is he unable to distinguish between facts and fiction or is he inherently deceptive by nature? | His …
globalresearch.ca/trump-mass-deception-iran/5699705
UK Nuclear Sub 'In Position to Strike Iran' Amid Tensions over Soleimani's Killing
Mideast Discourse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
Earlier on Sunday, about 50 members of the UK's Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq to help with the potential evacuation of Britons following Friday's US drone strike which killed Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps …
globalresearch.ca/uk-nuclear-sub-position-strike-iran-amid-tensions-soleimani-killing/5699815
Antiwar posts go viral on social media after US murder of Iranian general
wsws.org | 2020-01-06
On Twitter and other social media platforms, youth from every region of the globe expressed their opposition to war and the possibility of nuclear annihilation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/06/anti-j06.html
'Big loss' if Iran's nuclear deal scrapped & regarding Iraq, US threats are 'not helpful' — German FM
rt.com | 2020-01-06
The nuclear deal signed between major world powers and Iran after years of tough talks could be on the brink of collapse after Tehran announced it will throw out all constraints on uranium enrichment, the German FM warned. | The first week of the year saw more bad news coming in, with Iran saying it will cease sticking to limitations on enrichment, levels of enrichment and the stock of uranium written down in the 2015 nuclear deal. | The announcement apparently unnerved Germany, one of the three European countries that have been trying to save the deal after Donald Trump's abrupt decision to pull the US out o…
rt.com/news/477552-germany-iran-deal-end/
Soleimani's Death Could Galvanize Shia Coalitions Against One "Foreign Aggressor" — The U.S
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-06
Fallout continues to mount following the U.S. assassination of Iran's top military commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last week. Iranian media reports that over a million mourners took to the streets of Tehran today for the funeral of Soleimani, who headed Iran's elite Quds Force. On Sunday, Iran announced it would suspend its commitments under the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, which the U.S. pulled out of in 2018. Trump has also threatened to target 52 locations in Iran, including cultural sites, if Iran retaliates against the U.S. The targeting of cultural sites is widely viewed as an international war crime.
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/6/narges_bajoghli_qassem_soleimani_assassination_iran
Iran's rollback on 2015 deal commitments poses no risk of nuclear arms proliferation — Moscow
rt.com | 2020-01-06
Blaming Tehran for its decision not to adhere to the 2015 nuclear deal won't work, as it's a direct consequence of the US's withdrawal from the pact and increased sanctions pressure on Iran, the Foreign Ministry said. | The rollback on uranium enrichment constraints detailed in the landmark international agreement "in itself poses no threat in terms of proliferation of nuclear weapons," the ministry said in a statement. | The fact that Iran is acting in "close cooperation and unde…
rt.com/news/477582-iran-nuclear-rollback-us-russia/
Iran's rollback on 2015 deal commitments poses no risk of nuclear arms proliferation — Moscow
rt.com | 2020-01-06
Blaming Tehran for its decision not to adhere to the 2015 nuclear deal won't work, as it's a direct consequence of the US's withdrawal from the pact and increased sanctions pressure on Iran, the Foreign Ministry said. | The rollback on uranium enrichment constraints detailed in the landmark international agreement "in itself poses no threat in terms of proliferation of nuclear weapons," the ministry said in a statement. | The fact that Iran is acting in "close cooperation and unde…
rt.com/news/477582-iran-nuclear-rollback-us-russia/
Millions of Iranians Attend Soleimani's Funeral in Tehran
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-06
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran on Monday to bid farewell to the Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed last Friday by the U.S. military in Baghdad. | RELATED: | Trump Says Tweets Serve as 'Notification' to US Congress in Case of War | Leading the funeral procession was the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who broke down in tears as he commeorated the late general's contribution to the Islamic Republic. | Iranian state t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Millions-of-Iranians-Attend-Soleimanis-Funeral-in-Tehran-20200106-0002.html
Damage control: Trump admin backtracking on threat to target Iran's 'cultural sites' after international outrage
rt.com | 2020-01-06
US administration officials are scrambling to walk back Donald Trump's suggestion that he would target Iranian cultural sites by denying that he ever made the threat, even after he doubled down. | Trump provoked widespread outrage with a tweet Saturday claiming that Washington had 52 Iranian sites in its crosshairs, some of which were "very important" to "Iranian culture." Those targets, he added, would be hit "very fast and very hard" if Tehran retaliated for the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani. | ….targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some…
rt.com/usa/477586-iran-culture-conway-trump/
In San Francisco, Thousands March Against Occupation of Iraq And War With Iran
Eddie Stiel | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
On Saturday, January 4, 2020, 2500 to 3000 people marched from Powell and Market to UN Plaza, proclaiming "US Out of Iraq" and "No War With Iran."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/05/18829451.php
Dem candidates are critical of Trump's drone strike…but mostly are criticizing the Iranian general he killed
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-06
"No American will mourn Qassem Suleimani's passing," begins former Vice President Joe Biden's statement, "He deserved to be brought to justice for his crimes against American troops and thousands of innocents throughout the region. He supported terror and sowed chaos." | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/06/dem-candidates-are-critical-of-trumps-drone-strikebut-mostly-are-criticizing-the-iranian-general-he-killed/
Disruptive Assassinations: Killing Qassem Soleimani. Trump Promises "Bombing 52 Iranian Sites"
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
On the surface, it made not one iota of sense. The murder of a foreign military leader on his way from Baghdad airport, his diplomatic status assured by the local authorities, evidently deemed a target of irresistible richness. "General Soleimani …
globalresearch.ca/disruptive-assassinations-killing-qassem-soleimani/5699716
Dem candidates are critical of Trump's drone strike…but mostly are criticizing the Iranian general he killed
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-06
"No American will mourn Qassem Suleimani's passing," begins former Vice President Joe Biden's statement, "He deserved to be brought to justice for his crimes against American troops and thousands of innocents throughout the region. He supported terror and sowed chaos." | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/06/dem-candidates-are-critical-of-trumps-drone-strikebut-mostly-are-criticizing-the-iranian-general-he-killed/
'We are trying to prevent open war,' Iraqi PM tells US ambassador as tensions mount
rt.com | 2020-01-06
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has told US ambassador Matthew Tueller that Baghdad is doing all it can to prevent "descent into open war" as tensions flare over the US killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. | Speaking at a meeting with Tueller in the Iraqi capital on Monday, Abdul-Mahdi said his government's policy has "always been to have relations with all sides." He said Iraq wants to build its relations with other countries on "cooperation, mutual respect, and protection of foreign sovereignty," adding that a strong Iraqi government is in "everyone's interest" in the region. | The PM als…
rt.com/news/477589-iraq-us-ambassador-open-war/
Congress, Don't Stop at Passing a Strong War Powers Resolution
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-01-06
Congress, Don't Stop at Passing a Strong War Powers Resolution…
thenation.com/article/congress-aumf-war-iran/
Trump threatens Iraq with 'very big sanctions' unless it pays back BILLIONS for an airbase if US troops are forced to withdraw
rt.com | 2020-01-06
Iraq should brace for sanctions that will make the ones placed on Iran look weak in comparison if it kicks out the US troops without first covering the costs for an airbase, US President Donald Trump said. | "We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that's there. It cost billions of dollars to build, long before my time. We're not leaving unless they pay us back for it," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. | The punitive measures that the US is ready to slap on its supposed ally in the fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) will be even harsher than the crippling sanctions al…
rt.com/news/477539-iraq-sanctions-base-withdrawl/
Tide of people, anti-US chants, & sorrow as Tehran mourns death of General Soleimani & Iraqi militia commander (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-01-06
A massive funeral procession occupied the streets of Iran's capital as huge crowds of people — including the military's top brass — came to pay tribute to the deceased Quds Force commander and deputy chief of Iraq's Shia militia. | The remains of Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force who was killed in a US air strike, was flown to Tehran after a day of funeral processions in Ahvaz and Mashhad. Bodies of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy chief of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), and other "martyrs" who died alongside Soleimani in an American drone strike, also arrived in the…
rt.com/news/477557-tehran-general-soleimani-mourning/
Trump Threats of Cultural Genocide Against Iran Violate US, International Law
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-06
UNESCO recognizes 24 sites in Iran, more than almost any other country in the world, that are of such critical cultural and historical importance that they belong to all of humanity.
mintpressnews.com/trump-threats-cultural-genocide-iran-violate-us-international-law/263949/
Extrajudicial Assassinations are "Legal": American Democracy and the "Disposition Matrix"
Joseph Kishore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
The assassination of IRGC General Soleimani ordered by the President of the United States on January 2, 2020 is tantamount to an Act of War against Iran. | President Donald Trump accused Soleimani of "plotting imminent and sinister attacks": "We took …
globalresearch.ca/extrajudicial-assassinations-are-legal-american-democracy-and-the-disposition-matrix/5310258
Dems Must Repudiate Trump's Warmongering
Leland Nally | progressive.org | 2020-01-06
Thin-lipped, consultant-speak mewling is not going to stop a war with Iran.
progressive.org/op-eds/dems-must-repudiate-trumps-warmongering-nally-200106/
What Comes Next after the US Assassination of Qassem Soleimani? The Options
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
The US did not plan to kill the vice commander of the Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi brigade Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes when it assassinated Iranian Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani on Thursday at 11: 00 PM local time at Baghdad airport. Usually, when Soleimani …
globalresearch.ca/what-comes-next-us-assassination-qassem-soleimani-options/5699802
UK urges Baghdad to allow its troops to continue 'vital work' as Iraqi parliament calls for withdrawal of all foreign forces
rt.com | 2020-01-06
The UK government has expressed opposition to an Iraqi resolution demanding the expulsion of foreign troops, arguing that British soldiers play a critical security role in the country. | The removal of foreign military forces would prevent the US-led coalition from continuing its "vital work" countering Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Iraq, a UK government spokesman argued. | Iraq's parliament passed the motion on Sunday following the US-ordered assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, in Baghdad. The resolution is non-binding and has not yet been adopted as an official…
rt.com/news/477567-uk-iraq-troop-withdrawal-iran/
Former Top Bush Official: I Saw the March to War in 2003. I'm Seeing the Same Thing with Iran Now
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-06
We look at the Trump administration's assassination of Iran's top military commander Qassem Soleimani with Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army colonel who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005. On February 5, 2003, he watched as Powell made the case for war in a speech to the United Nations. He has since become an outspoken critic of U.S. intervention in the Middle East. In 2018, Wilkerson wrote an article for The New York Times titled "I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It's Happening Again."
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/6/lawrence_wilkerson_iraq_war_soleimani_assassination
BREAKING: Soleimani was in Iraq to ease regional tensions; then Trump said 'Kill him'
Ben Becker | liberationnews.org | 2020-01-06
The Pentagon and the White House fully knew, when they ordered the airstrike to kill him, that Soleimani was traveling to Baghdad in a diplomatic capacity as an emissary of Iran, and that he had a meeting planned with the Prime Minister to discuss broader de-escalation.
liberationnews.org/breaking-soleimani-was-in-iraq-to-ease-regional-tensions-then-trump-said-kill-him/
Bush Official: I Watched the March to War in 2003 and It's Happening Again
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-06
We look at the Trump administration's assassination of Iran's top military commander Qassem Soleimani with Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army colonel who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005. On February 5, 2003, he watched as Powell made the case for war in a speech to the United Nations. He has since become an outspoken critic of U.S. intervention in the Middle East. In 2018, Wilkerson wrote an article for The New York Times titled "I Helped Se…
truthout.org/video/bush-official-i-watched-the-march-to-war-in-2003-and-its-happening-again/
Trump's Illegal, Impeachable Act of War
Danny Sjursen | commondreams.org | 2020-01-06
Iranian pride, nationalism and basic sense of sovereignty, deeply wounded by Soleimani's assassination, may demand an actual hot war with the U.S. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/iran_2.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/01/06/trumps-illegal-impeachable-act-war?cd-origin=rss
'Never threaten the Iranian nation': Rouhani rebuffs Trump's warning that 52 Iranian targets may be hit
rt.com | 2020-01-06
Iran's president has reminded Donald Trump of the 290 Iranians who died when the US shot down their plane in 1988, after the US president threatened to hit 52 targets in Iran — the same number of American hostages taken in 1979. | …
rt.com/news/477596-iran-us-trump-rouhani/
Trump's Killing of Qassem Soleimani Means "Rules of the Game Have Totally Changed" in Middle East
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-06
The Iraqi Parliament voted Sunday to expel all U.S. military forces from Iraq. President Trump responded by threatening to impose sanctions on Iraq "like they've never seen before." Iraq has already been the target of some of the harshest sanctions the world has even seen. U.S.-backed sanctions killed more than a million Iraqis, including over 500,000 children, between 1990 and 2003. From Baghdad, we talk to Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, correspondent for The Guardian newspaper.
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/6/ghaith_abdul_ahad_iran_iraq_soleimani
Former Top Bush Official: I Saw the March to War in 2003. I'm Seeing the Same Thing with Iran Now
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-06
We look at the Trump administration's assassination of Iran's top military commander Qassem Soleimani with Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army colonel who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005. On February 5, 2003, he watched as Powell made the case for war in a speech to the United Nations. He has since become an outspoken critic of U.S. intervention in the Middle East. In 2018, Wilkerson wrote an article for The New York Times titled "I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It's Happening Again."
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/6/lawrence_wilkerson_iraq_war_soleimani_assassination
Trump Threatens War Crimes Against Iran. Congress Must Stop Him
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-06
Trump has already committed the crime of aggression against Iran, and he is now threatening to commit a war crime if he carries through on his January 4 promise to target Iran's cultural sites. The United States has violated the United Nations Charter's prohibition on the use of military force. This is the time to raise our voices and demand that our congressional representatives put a halt to Trump's illegal war-…
truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-war-crimes-against-iran-congress-must-stop-him/
Conservative satire as popular as mainstream news, journalists and cyberwarriors furious
rt.com | 2020-01-06
A satirical article claiming the Democratic Party is officially mourning the death of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani has been shared more times than most CNN and New York Times articles, annoying the joke police. | Soleimani, who commanded the Iranian military Quds Force, was killed in an American airstrike last week, an assassination which raised already high tensions between Washington and Tehran to boiling point. Democrats criticized Trump for ordering Soleimani's killing, prompting conservative satire site the Babylon Bee to put its own spin on events. | "Democrats call for flags to be flown a…
rt.com/usa/477584-babylon-bee-cnn-soleimani/