Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency (FNA) on Tuesday claimed the theocracy is contemplating 13 “revenge scenarios” to retaliate for the U.S. elimination of terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani in Iraq last week.
UK officials are investigating an Iranian linked charity that receives taxpayer funding after it hailed Qasem Soleimani as a “martyr”.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times published a column Tuesday repeating a conspiracy theory growing popular among Democrat circles in Washington: that President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike against Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani to distract from impeachment proceedings.
On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned that President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iran’s Qasem Soleimani would take “diplomacy off the table” for likely a “lifetime.”
Former Tennessee Titans Player Albert Haynesworth raised eyebrows with a post suggesting that Iran should bomb the White House in the wake of President Donald Trump’s strike against the chief of Iran’s military terror arm.
Iran’s rubber-stamp parliament voted to expand an April 2019 bill declaring U.S. Central Command a terrorist organization to all of the Pentagon following the elimination of Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani.
San Francisco (AFP) – Steve Kerr, the outspoken coach of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, said Saturday he feared the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani could embroil the United States in an “unwinnable, unnecessary” war.
Filmmaker Michael Moore has apologized to Iran on behalf of the American people, saying that he is sorry for the recent air strike ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, likened the Trump administration’s strike against Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, to actions taken by Russia and China against dissidents.
President Trump spent Tuesday morning retweeting eleven Twitter messages from Sen. Lindsey Graham who praised the president’s action as a “major accomplishment.”
Tom Friedman of the New York Times noted this past weekend that in killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the U.S. rid Iran of an incompetent leader who created a hated regional empire for Iran and brought it to financial ruin.
The U.S. State Department has issued a series of alerts for American citizens abroad, citing “heightened tension in the Middle East” after the drone strike on Irani General Qassem Soleimani.
The Catholic Archbishop for the U.S. Military Services, Timothy P. Broglio, issued a nuanced statement Monday on the situation in the Middle East, signalling support for the recent drone strike on Irani General Qasem Soleimani.
Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Hossein Salami said Tuesday that Iran is seeking revenge against the U.S. that “will be hard, firm, regrettable, decisive and complete.”
A mass stampede by mourners at the funeral of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani caused 35 deaths and injuries to 193 others on Tuesday morning, Iran state media reports.
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.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that it is “a certainty that there will be attacks” in retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani. Paul said, “I think if you ask the question, now,
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On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that the killing of Qasem Soleimani violated international law, and that doing so will lead to “international anarchy” and “unleash some very, very terrible forces.”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, under questioning by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, quashed the alleged notion that the Democrats’ impeachment efforts have weakened American President Donald Trump across the world.
Pentagon leaders defended the U.S. military strike against Soleimani, saying intelligence showed he was planning “imminent” combat operations.
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.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline,” Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign manager, accused President Donald Trump of ordering the airstrike that killed Iranian General Soleimani to distract from impeachment.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Monday chastised Republicans for defending an “impeached” president and warned that they will be responsible for “dragging us to war” with Iran.
In a Monday appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) voiced his support behind President Donald Trump’s decision to execute airstrikes in Baghdad to kill Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani.
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.
“He should have been taken out a long time ago,” Trump said. “And we had a shot at him and we took him out, and we’re a lot safer now because of it.”
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
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).
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.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ) called on President Donald Trump Monday to declassify the administration’s notification of hostilities against Iran.
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.
