Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Published: January 7, 2020

Americans Are Debating About Whether We Will Go To War With Iran, But The Iranians Say The War Has Already Started

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Whether you want it or not, the war with Iran has already begun.  It is kind of sad that the pundits on our cable news channels are so clueless about what has happened.  They seem to think that there is still a debate about whether we will go to war with Iran or not, but meanwhile the Iranians believe that the war has already started.  Of course most Americans don’t want such a war, and President Trump didn’t intend to start one, but we now have one nonetheless.  Over the past few days, vast hordes of Iranians mourning the death of Qassem Soleimani have been literally screaming for “war” and “revenge” at the top of their lungs.  And as you will see below, the top military adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei just told CNN that our two nations are already at war.  So it isn’t our decision to make.  The Iranians are going to be shooting at us whether we shoot back or not.
Perhaps you think that I am exaggerating.
Well, I would like for you to consider some of the statements that Major General Hossein Dehghan made during an exclusive interview with CNN.  Dehghan is the top military adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei, and he is promising that Iran will soon “take direct action against America”…
“It might be argued that there could be proxy operations. We can say America, Mr. Trump, has taken action directly against us — so we take direct action against America.”
And he also told CNN that the Iranian response to the death of Soleimani will have “decisive deterrent effect”…
In common with other Iranian officials, Dehghan suggested that Iran was in no hurry to retaliate and would choose its targets carefully. “Our reaction will be wise, well considered and in time, with decisive deterrent effect.”
But just because Iran plans to hit us back really hard does not mean that a war has begun.
However, this next statement that Dehghan made leaves no doubt about where the Iranians stand…
“The only thing that can end this period of war is for the Americans to receive a blow that is equal to the blow they have inflicted. Afterward they should not seek a new cycle.”
The Iranians clearly believe that a “period of war” has already started.
And we are being told that the only way for this “period of war” to end is for Iran to inflict a blow upon us that is equal to the blow that we inflicted on them.
So what would be equal to the loss of Qassem Soleimani in the eyes of the Iranians?
Soleimani was one of the greatest heroes in the modern history of Iran, and hundreds of thousands of mourners have poured into the streets over the past couple of days to express their grief…
Crowds mourning the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani continued to flood the streets of the capital as his funeral procession dragged into the night.
Earlier in the day hundreds of thousands of people swamped central Tehran to express their outpouring of grief at the death of the revered leader of the elite Quds Force, who was assassinated in a US drone strike in Iraq on Friday.
After following his casket through the capital, Soleimani’s body was transported to the holy city of Qom where a ceremony at Masumeh shrine will be held ahead of his burial in his hometown tomorrow.
It is going to take a great deal for the Iranians to feel that they have extracted sufficient vengeance.  And Dehghan foreshadowed what may be coming when he made this statement to CNN…
“No American military staff, no American political center, no American military base, no American vessel will be safe.”
And other key Iranian leaders are saying similar things.
For example, Soleimani’s replacement is warning that the Iranians will “continue down martyr Soleimani’s path”…
Esmail Ghaani, who has replaced Qassem Soleimani as head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, has warned the US that Iran will retaliate to last week’s drone attack. He told Iranian state television that “God the Almighty has promised to get his revenge” for the killing of Mr Soleimani. The newly appointed chief said that actions would “certainly” be taken.
Mr Ghaani also pledged to “continue down martyr Soleimani’s path”, after US officials claimed they assassinated the Iranian general because intelligence showed he was plotting “imminent attacks” on US officials.
Even more ominously, the New York Times is reporting that Ayatollah Khamenei himself has mandated that American interests must be attacked directly by Iranian forces…
In the tense hours following the American killing of a top Iranian military commander, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a rare appearance at a meeting of the government’s National Security Council to lay down the parameters for any retaliation. It must be a direct and proportional attack on American interests, he said, openly carried out by Iranian forces themselves, three Iranians familiar with the meeting said Monday.
Of course most Americans absolutely do not want a war with Iran.
In fact, I would guess that probably about two-thirds of all U.S. citizens will be against a war with Iran when a national survey is taken.
But that doesn’t matter to the Iranians.  They are going to start shooting at us, and they want to make us hurt as much as possible.
If you can believe it, one member of the Iranian parliament has even suggested attacking the White House…
Iranian MP Abolfazl Abutorabi has reportedly threatened to attack the White House in response to a message from President Trump that promised severe consequences if the Islamic nation escalates hostilities with the U.S.
Abutorabi was responding to a question about how Iran should react to the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani during an American airstrike, The Independent reported.
“We can attack the White House itself, we can respond to them on the American soil. We have the power, and God willing we will respond in an appropriate time,” Abutorabi said according to the UK publication, which cited Iranian news agency ILNA.
So you can debate about whether there will be a war or not all you want, but the truth is that everyone should really be trying to figure out how to end the war that has already started.
And at this point, I don’t know if anything can be done to stop events from spinning wildly out of control.  Every time Iran hits us, Trump is going to hit them back even harder, and neither side is going to back down any time soon.
At this hour, more U.S. troops are headed to the Middle East.  In addition to the deployment of thousands of troops from the 82nd Airborne Division, a couple thousand Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit have been diverted to the Middle East…
Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) will now head to Iraq aboard the USS Bataan (LHD-5) amphibious assault ship to join other U.S. troops recently called upon to bolster security measures and military readiness in the country, according to USNI News.
According to the USNI Fleet Tracker, the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group had just arrived off the coast of Morocco this week as tensions have risen with Iran. The Marines aboard had planned to train with Moroccan military members, as part of the joint Exercise African Sea Lion, before the apparent change in plans.
Even more importantly, six B-52 bombers have just been deployed to Diego Garcia…
The U.S. Air Force is deploying six B-52 bombers to Diego Garcia, an island base in the Indian Ocean, amid the rising threat of Iran retaliating after a U.S.-led airstrike killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
The move, which was first reported by CNN, is the latest in efforts by U.S. military officials to bolster resources near the Middle East after the Iraqi Shia militia Kataib Hezbollah hinted at possible retaliatory attacks to avenge Soleimani’s death.
I wish that it wasn’t true, but war is here.
Will this conflict eventually evolve into World War 3, or can we still be pulled back from the brink somehow?
Only time will tell, but I would definitely encourage everyone to get prepared for a worst case scenario.
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Soleimani’s (Blessed) Elimination Awakens “Sleeper Cells”: Americans Forewarned. Be Prepared!

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 Adina Kutnicki
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Posted on January 7, 2020
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CARDS ON THE TABLE: once the blessed, yes, blessed, news broke that Soleimani was dispatched to Allah’s hell-hole, imagine, if you will, the immediate reaction from this counter-jihadist and investigative journalist. Yes, some revelry ensued. So much so, even “Doc”, the ever genteel partner of yours truly, joined in the hooting and hollering. Oh, what joy!
NATURALLY, the “elimination” of this or that arch jihadi terrorist is always cause for celebration, that is, if saving {emphasis added} lives is the goal – never mind the left’s jibber-jabber that the discharge of a blood-soaked, arch enemy amounts to an “unlawful assassination.” Hogwash. Anti-American. Nonsense. Poppycock, too.
Despite Soleimani’s bloody record, the drone strike that killed him, carried out at the direction of President Trump, has been bitterly denounced by Democrat office holders and their wholly-owned mainstream media subsidiary. To hear them tell it, by authorizing the killing of  Soleimani without first consulting Congress, Trump has acted illegally and heedlessly and unnecessarily risked all-out war with Iran. 
While Democrat and media criticism of Trump is hardly news, the context and vehemence of this latest condemnation raise interesting questions regarding the Democrats’ true motives which, as will be discussed below, appear to be nefarious and corrupt. 
First, let’s consider the exigent circumstances leading up to President Trump’s decision to kill Soleimani.
Citing anonymous sources within the Iraqi security service and Shi’ite militia commanders, Reuters reports that, at the time of his death, Soleimani had instructed al-Muhandis “and other powerful militia leaders to step up attacks on U.S. targets in the country using sophisticated new weapons provided by Iran…” including Katyusha rockets and shoulder-fired missiles capable of bringing down helicopters. Moreover, “the U.S. intelligence community had reason to believe that Soleimani was involved in ‘late stage’ planning to strike Americans in multiple countries, including Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon…”
In fact, by the time Soleimani was killed, the initial phases of the planned attacks had already taken place. The Soleimani strike followed by days a thirty-plus rocket attack by a Quds Force militia on an Iraqi military base which killed an American civilian contractor and wounded four American servicemen. And, the day before Soleimani’s death, the same Quds Force militia had assaulted the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
Thanks to superior intelligence gathering and analysis, a brief opportunity arose to target and eliminate Soleimani and disrupt his plan of attack. Under those circumstances, time was of the essence, and the president had to promptly order the drone strike and end the threat. Whether such exigent circumstances would have allowed for advance notice to Congress is an open question…..continue the uncomfortable truth-telling here……
MIND you, aside from all the background noise, back-benching, hand-wringing, and a myriad of geo-political factors, international law is very clear about the “crime of terrorism“, and the ways in which it can (and should) be dealt with under the law. Its legal umbrella, for the most part, is housed within a doctrine termed “Nullem Crimen Sine Poena“, a.k.a. “No Crime Without Punishment.” In part, it reads:
“Terrorism is a crime under international law, and incontestably one of the most serious. The precise offenses that comprise this crime can be found at the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism…. [Every] state has an obligation under international law to prosecute and punish terrorists…. [Any] person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible and liable to punishment….”
MOREOVER, as the architect and operational commander of the Iranian effort to tighten its grip and control over the so-called Shia crescent, stretching from Iran to Iraq through Syria into southern Lebanon, Soleimani was the world’s defacto arch terrorist mastermind, bar none. In fact, his status as international “top terror dog” overrides that of Osama Bin Laden and Abu Bakr al–Baghdadi, despite their  beyond blood-soaked hands. Agreed, they were more infamous. But for those who operate in the domain of counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence, no doubt, they will back up this site’s assessment. Let’s call it a “relativity thing.”  
SINCE 2008, as some may be aware, this American-Israeli has been living in Israel – in the direct cross-hairs of the mad mullahs and their terrorist proxy arms. Resultant, there is a “dog in this (life and death) fight”, so to speak. Despite said proximity, there remains a degree of calm within – trust, it is not borne of ignorance, or a “see no evil, hear no evil” mindset. Why is this? Simply, the IDF/Naval Warfare Arm/IAF and attendant security services are more than capable of dealing with the threat, that is, if given the orders to do so and let off their leashes! Not only that, it is an “open” secret that U.S. intelligence agencies have been known to rely on Israeli counterparts for real-time “target-practice” and other operational matters.
STILL yet, at this end, the real threat comes from Israel’s political realm and the chaos within. Its instability. As revealed in a previous analysis: “In a nutshell, the Israeli political system is a broken, non-representative polity – a fractured, mish-mash of parties, requiring the ruling coalition to play a numbers game. Beyond phew. Third election, anyone??”
WITH that said, as an American patriot, too, it is of critical importance to assist with this and that.
IN this regard, since (more accurately, prior to) President Trump’s ascension to the White House, it is beyond obvious that countless Americans are hyper-busy fending off assaults from those (inside and outside the body politic) who seek to bring the nation to bent knees.
TO wit, an up-ticked tempo to Iran’s (ever-present) saber-rattling is reverberating throughout the world. Most acutely, it is being felt in America through the filter of countless talking heads – most of whom do not have a clue about geo-politics in general and Islamic jihad in particular. Ignoramuses. Stipulated, Israelis not only live amidst Iran’s saber-rattling on a regular basis, but with its bloody knock-on effects due to the IDF’s “restrained” hand(s), as ordered by the political echelon! 
BUT now that Trump demonstrated what true leadership looks like – even if the far-left refuses to acknowledge it – it is incumbent upon this patriot to recap highly specific warnings from the inception of this site, back in 2012. More specifically, they elaborate upon, and intersect with, current reportage from patriotic corners. As such, Iran Has Hezbollah Sleeper Cells In The U.S. Ready To Strike – featured last week – should be considered every patriot’s front-line read. Defense. Indeed, knowledge is power. This site’s recapped warnings, bull’s-eyes, if you will, are below.
RECAPPED WARNINGS:
  • Back in Sept. 2012, basically, storming out of this (blog’s) gate, (Shia) Iran’s jihadi front-arm debuted. Enter….“Hezbollah Burrowed Within U.S. Cities: Latin American Forward Bases.”
  • Only a year later, July 2013, this writer received an award from WatcherofWeasels.org via its resident punditry, namely, Wow Magazine! – We Watch Weasels So You Don’t Have To. The cited analysis is housed at this site under the title: “Barack HUSSEIN Obama Acts As A Shield For Islamic Regimes: Iranian Freedom Fighters Exposed His Hand.” Its basis couldn’t be any more germane. Full circle. It opens with the following:
Many moons ago – at least in the time frame of too many ADD-afflicted westerners – the Islamist-in-Chief was immersed, as usual, in perpetual campaign mode and golf jaunts, all the while Iranian freedom fighters were slaughtered in their streets. Barely four years have passed since the leader of the free world ignored their pleas, as Iranians begged for assistance to remove the boot of the mullahs via the so called “twitter revolution.“ Obama Inc’s national disgrace is amply described within the above Washington Times Editorial……..
  • April 6, 2014, brought forth “Sleeper Cells Implanted In ‘Any City’ USA, Awaiting Orders To Strike: FBI Ordered To Stand Down.” Without a shadow of a doubt, it must be viewed as the “primer of all primers”, as to what awaits and what should be done!
  • Alas, again, in June 2014, this site revealed: “The Storming Of U.S. Border Ties Hezbollah To MS-13 & WMD’s! ‘Cooperating’ U.S. Officials, Too. Say Whaaat??”
  • Fast forward to January 28, 2015, and additional underlying alarm bells blared: “Obama Empowers Iran; Hezbollah’s S. American Jihadi Cells & Argentina’s Murdered Prosecutor. How Are They Linked?” Dear reader, connect the dots to the here and now….
  • Moving right along to March 18, 2017, “Islamic ‘Sleeper Cells’, Hezbollah (Shia) & Brotherhood (Sunni) Prepping Jihad In America: The Proofs” is more evidence of the same.
  • And, finally, May 18, 2018, the “clarion of all clarion calls” was sent out to patriot Americans via “Iranian ‘Sleeper Cells’ DEEP Inside America – Primed & Waiting. Why Haven’t They Been Eliminated?” Regardless, this is not the time to say: told you so!
MOST urgently, the overarching advice within is:
  • Firstly, read the above links….chapter and verse.
  • Secondly, imbibe the linked book embedded below. Cover to cover. As such, what’s really going down will become manifestly clear – as to “the hows” and “the whys” Iran’s Revolutionary Islamic Regime deploys its proxy arms to export terror throughout the Middle East, as well as worldwide. With this fact-based information in hand, not only will the targeting of Soleimani be internalized for what it really is, but it will be understood through a multiplicity of knock-on effects – primarily, as a mega, pre-emptive lifesaving measure from future blood-soaked plots, that which even Muslims (who were his victims, too) should be applauding. Yes, some Iranians are thanking Trump!
  • Last, but certainly not least, if ever there was a time to take the 2nd Amendment to heart, this is it. Enough said.
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INCONTESTABLY, while the raising of the RED FLAG OF WAR is more than symbolic in Shia history, the fact is that Iran (via proxy arms) has been AT WAR with America (and Israel) since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – a total of 41 years and with no end in sight!! 
MOST significantly, Islam and Blood are inextricably tied. This has been the case since time immemorial. But, blessedly, there is an upside. Countless patriots are, finally, waking up to what Islam is ala Sharia Law – a cancerous scourge!

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