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Pro-Iran protesters from the Union of Islamic Student Association in Europe branded the United States a “terrorist state” outside the American embassy in London.

Speaker at Soleimani Funeral Tries to Crowdsource $80 Million Bounty on Trump

TEL AVIV – The Knesset attorney general on Monday faced Likud demands to desist from giving a legal opinion on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for immunity after it emerged that he was reportedly in breach of contract over his wife’s involvement in formulating the criminal indictments against the prime minister.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said President Donald Trump ordered the airstrike that killed Iranian General Soleimani to cause “chaos in the Middle East” to distract from impeachment.

The U.S.-led military coalition against ISIS said it will withdraw from Iraq and reposit its troops in the near future, according to a letter examined by Reuters on Monday.

The editor-in-chief of one of Turkey’s largest pro-Islamist newspapers disparaged former Iranian terrorism chief Qasem Soleimani in a column this weekend for “ruthlessly implementing every type of terrorism” against Muslim people throughout the Middle East.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Live,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) claimed ISIS was benefitting from President Donald Trump’s foreign policy “chaos.” When asked about Iraq’s parliamentary vote to expel American troops from the country as a response to the U.S. airstrike

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) floated the theory that President Donald Trump could go to war against Iran if the Islamic regime targets his hotel properties in response to the U.S.’s deadly strike on military commander Qasem Soleimani.

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo confirmed his intention on Monday to send members of the nation’s Self-Defense Forces to the Middle East in the immediate aftermath of a U.S. airstrike eliminating Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani.

Presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg (D) said it is “outrageous” to describe the death of Iran’s top terror chief as an “assassination” — a description used by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

While many Iranian officials have threatened genocide, Qasem Suleimani was actually tasked with it. Trump brought him to justice.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) is calling on Congress to hold open hearings on President Donald Trump’s decision to direct the deadly airstrike that killed top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed President Trump’s decision to target arch Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani as “provocative and disproportionate” and announced the House will soon vote on a resolution to limit Trump’s war powers.

A senior commander in the Quds Force once led by Qasem Soleimani has vowed that Iran will strike at U.S. forces in the Middle East “without any concern” about it killing their British allies, who will be viewed as “collateral damage”.  

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has sharply criticized the president’s decision to eliminate Iran’s top terror chief, Qasem Soleimani, took a different position following the death of al-Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al-Libi, at which time he praised former President Obama’s “bold & decisive” drone strike policy.

The Iranian government announced on Sunday that its systematic violations of former President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will escalate to their logical conclusion with the removal of all limits on uranium enrichment.

Appearing Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized President Donald Trump for directing the deadly strike that killed Iran’s terror-military mastermind Qasem Soleimani, stating that “taking out a bad guy is not necessarily a good idea.”

A column published Sunday in PressTV, an Iranian regime media outlet, blamed the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence service for the September 11, 2001, attacks and accused “Evangelical Christian fascist” Vice President Mike Pence of lying about Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani’s ties to the attacks.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee criticized President Trump on Sunday for issuing warnings to Iran on Twitter, adding, “You’re not a dictator.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused President Trump of engaging in a “war crime” for responding to Iran’s threats with forceful warnings, referring to him as an “authoritarian” who wants to “erase history” and calling him a “monster” over the weekend.

Pope Francis appealed for an exercise of self-control and dialogue Sunday as tensions increase between the United States and Iran following a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.

The website of an obscure government organization called the Federal Depository Library Program was hijacked over the weekend by hackers claiming to be linked to Iran.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wrote a letter to her Democrat colleagues in the House on Sunday to reveal a new “War Powers Resolution” that amounts to a pre-emptive surrender to Iran in ongoing hostilities.

Zeinab Soleimani, daughter of late Iranian terror chief Gen. Qasem Soleimani, warned the families of American soldiers that their loved ones would soon die in remarks Monday at her father’s funeral.

The head of Tehran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah on Sunday reportedly vowed to take revenge for the U.S. killing of Iranian terrorist Gen. Qasem Soleimani, stating, “the shoe of Soleimani is worth the head of Trump and all American leaders.”

Sadiq Khan admitted that the Labour Party deserved to lose to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in last month’s general election.

Iran leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sobbed Monday as he prayed beside the coffin of terror leader Qasem Soleimani who was eliminated in a U.S. airstrike, as Soleimani’s daughter promised a “dark day” for the United States lay ahead.

TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday discussed Iran’s “malign influence” following the American airstrike in Iraq on the top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed his “deep shock” over the drowning of a man and a woman in an elevator, the result of massive flooding in Tel Aviv following record rainfall over the weekend. 

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has told Israeli public radio that many politicians appear to be in the grip of a “climate cult” and are pursuing policies which will lead to “Third World-style blackouts” in the West. 

Far-left documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has begged the Iranian regime not to respond with violence to the drone strike that killed the country’s terror chief Major General Qassem Soleimani, promising that he and millions of Americans will get rid of President Donald Trump at the ballot box in November.

Dozens of Iranian Canadians danced and cheered in the streets on Friday following the news that terrorist Qasem Soleimani has been eliminated.

Saturday during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) explained how even though the Iranians have vowed retaliation against the United States for the drone strike that killed Qasam Soleimani, they have other serious domestic problems with which to be concerned that threaten the stability of the regime.

The Islamic Centre of England in Maida Vale, Kilburn, London, has held a mass memorial for slain Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general Qasem Soleimani.

Iraqi MPs passed a resolution Sunday calling for all foreign troops to leave the country after the U.S. eliminated top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghdad airport last week.

Former General David Petraeus described President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad as the most significant action against terrorism in the Middle East.