Category Archives: Iran
Brad Johnson speaks to retired NSA Arabist, Barry Webb about the operation at the Baghdad Airport against Iranian military leaders
SECOND U.S. Airstrikes North of Baghdad – Three Vehicle Convoy of Iran-backed Shia Militia Leaders…
From the Conservative Treehouse:
Reports of new late-night U.S. airstrikes north of Baghdad are starting to be confirmed. According to developing reports a convoy of two or three vehicles carrying Iran-back Shia Militia leaders was targeted near Taji in Northern Baghdad. [Convoy pic below]

Trump Does It Again – Second Terrorist Convoy Carrying High-Value Targets Just Obliterated In Iraq…
Shibl al-Zaydi, leader of the PMU has been confirmed dead after the US conducted another air strike targeting his convoy in Taji. Two vehicles hit. Story is developing.
6 killed in airstrike north of Baghdad targeting convoy carrying Shia militia members – report
A convoy carrying members of the Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias, was hit by an airstrike while traveling in Baghdad, media report.
The three-car convoy was struck in the northern outskirts of the Iraqi capital in the district of al-Taji, according to an Iraqi military source cited by Reuters. Six militiamen were reported killed in the attack, with three others critically injured. It remains unclear who carried out the strike.
The six killed in the strike have yet to be named, but early reports suggesting they hit two paramilitary commanders – Shibl al-Zaydi, secretary general of the Kataib al-Imam militia, as well as Qais al-Khazali, leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq – were refuted by the PMF in a statement.
The US unofficially denies this strike
Brad Johnson on last night’s strike on Iranian military leaders
More on the attack against several key people incl. Soleimani, in the Iranian regime’s terror apparatus
Items about the escalation of the US Iran conflict that played out in Baghdad
1. Tucker comments:
2. Hundreds of US troops deployed to Iraq
3. 700 head to Iraq
4. Video after strike on Iranian general
5. Also killed:
6. Iraqis seem pretty stoked about it all
https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1212929541615816705
7. More reports on the death of this key Iranian military asset
Its been a busy day. Ill end this post here for the moment.
One suspects that the news over the next little while may be serious.
Thank you to all who have contributed. You know who you are.
Iranian backed commander who attacked the US Embassy killed in missile strike at Baghdad Airport: Links 3, January 2, 2019
1. California going communist as fast as it can
2. January 2 2020: Populist Leader Tops Confidence Poll in Sweden for First Time
Swedish populist leader Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the Sweden Democrats (SD), is now tied with Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch-Thor as the party leader with the most confidence of Swedish voters.
The survey, conducted by polling firm Novus, is the best result ever for the SD leader showing him tied with Ms Busch-Thor at 31 per cent, and three points ahead of second-place winner and leader of the Left Party Jonas Sjöstedt, broadcaster SVT reports.
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, the leader of the Social Democrats, has seen a steep decline in confidence among voters according to the survey, dropping six percentages points to 23 percent, putting him in 4th place.
Löfven commented on the results blaming the sharp increase in bombings, the high number of shootings and gang-related violence in 2019 saying, “It is not so strange with the situation we have had in the autumn with far too many shootings and too many blasts. There is a worry and there is anger.”
3. UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge’s diversity statement
“[…] Although I am aware and respectful of the many dimensions within which a university properly seeks a diverse faculty and student body, I have long been particularly concerned with the lack of intellectual diversity at the law school. A survey of U.S. law professors in general found that white Democratic professors (both male and female), Jewish professors, and nonreligious professors “account for most (or all) of the overrepresentation among racial, gender, religious, and ideological groups in law teaching.”[1] The groups that “account for most of the underrepresentation among racial, gender, religious, and ideological groups in law teaching” are Republicans (both male and female), Protestants, and Catholics.[2] This disparity persists even though “religious and political diversity are probably more important for viewpoint diversity than gender diversity and roughly as important as racial diversity.”[3]
At UCLA, we know that the campus as a whole leans substantially to the left. “A study of various university faculties showed that at Cornell the ratio of liberal to conservative faculty members was 166 to 6, at Stanford it was 151 to 17, at UCLA it was 141 to 9, and at the University of Colorado it was 116 to 5.”[4] Conservative students at UCLA have been “harassed, stalked, and threatened.”[5] I recently searched the opensecrets.org donor database for political contributions made by persons who claimed UCLA School of Law as their employer. Thirty-eight of those persons contributed solely to Democratic candidates, the Democratic Party and various affiliates, and liberal PACs. One person contributed to both Republicans and Democrats. Three persons contributed exclusively to Republican candidates, the Republican Party, and various NRC affiliates. Of the faculty members who contributed exclusively to Republican candidates, the most recently hired of the two was hired in 1997. As a monetary matter, 92.67% of all contributions went to Democrats and affiliated groups.[6] […]”
4. AFP refers to Indian refugee bill as an “Anti-muslim law” using the same communist and bastardized meaning as the media apply to President Trump’s attempt to double check immigration from nations that export terrorists.
It should be noted that if this is an “anti-muslim law” then Canada’s refusal to take Nazi refugees after WW2 was an anti-nazi law.
5. London parents upset after school changes lyrics to Christmas carol to be ‘more inclusive’
Parents and staff at a London primary school are upset after the headmaster changed the lyrics to a popular Christmas carol “in the name of inclusion and political correctness,” according to a watchdog group.
Zakia Khatun, the headteacher of Whitehall Primary School in East London, told students they were not to sing “Lord” in “Away in a Manger,” and replaced it with “little baby” so “all pupils” could participate in an annual Nativity Tuesday.
A parent told Christian Concern, a London-based Christian non-profit, she was “shocked” when she found out.
“I picked up my children at the end of the day and they were so upset, saying to me, ‘Mummy, today in assembly the headteacher told everybody that she would be changing the words to the Christmas song.'”
(In Stephen Coughlin’s strategic brief, he explains dialectical negation and aufhaben Der Kulture, more or less as the introduction of a hostile group to the target group and then the destruction of the target by pretty much exactly the means in the example above. Notice how for the moment at least, there is no attempt to change or eliminate any Islamic practices or traditions in the name of multiculturalism. Please read the whole article at the FOX link above)
Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, the powerful head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport, Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials officials said Friday.
The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, which were responsible for the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
An official with the PMF blamed the U.S. military for the strike. ‘The American and Israeli enemy is responsible for killing the mujahideen Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani,’ said Ahmed al-Assadi, a PMF spokesman.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that strikes had been carried out against two targets linked to Iran in Baghdad on Thursday but declined to give any further details.
American officials have made no public comments on the strike yet. The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to inquiries from DailyMail.com.

Persians rebel against the Islamic Republic
MASS PROTESTS CONTINUE IN IRAN – 67 Demonstrators Killed – Regime Fires on Protesters From the Air
(Many Twitter videos at link above)
1. Police shooting Protestors
2. Woman stands on bridge over stopped traffic and gives anti-regime rant to applause
3. Clashes Between Protesters & Regime’ Security Forces In Shiraz
4. 16 MILLION people in protests in Iran, some deaths on the regime side
https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1196493684939935744
5.
Imam Tawhidi attempts to answer a question on Iranian/Shiia antisemitism
Interesting exchange indeed.
Brad Johnson on Iran’s attack of Saudi oil facilities
Direct link:
https://d.tube/v/vladtepesblog/Qmct9ieuL41Hh7K9YZRWkdXQ1BxbhJj9Ge6LeuLwbf3TyM
Expat Iranians protest Iran’s minister, Javad Zarif state visit to Sweden
55 years total in prison for not wearing a hijab in Iran
Brad Johnson on President Trump, Iran, and China
Iran shoots down a drone that was flying at high altitude in what is clearly a new level of weapons for Iran
Matt bracken has a killer 10 minute segment on this incident from today’s Infowars.
Former Navy Seal, Matt bracken, discusses the current Iran situation with Alex Jones
Something is going on in the Gulf …
The following tweet is from the state propaganda organ, one which Trudeau’s brother worked for or still works for, Press TV:
CNN: Suspected attack on tankers in the Gulf of Oman
Where all of this is taking place
The two tankers were targeted Thursday morning in the Gulf of Oman, the same waterway where four commercial ships were attacked last month.
The attacks have ratcheted up existing tensions in the region, where Iran has long been at loggerheads with Saudi Arabia and the UAE — most recently over the civil war in Yemen.
(The Yemeni war is a war of manifest destiny by Iran, using their proxy, the Houthis as they would, Hizb’allah in the regions near Israel and abroad.)

Now The Express, which expressly says it was torpedoes:
The US Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet assisted after receiving two distress calls.
Responding to the incident, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said Britain is seeking to establish the facts of what happened while the UK Maritime Trade Operations, which is part of the Royal Navy, urged “extreme caution”.
Front Altair, owned by Frontline, was carrying 75,000 tonnes of petroleum product naphtha and was headed to Taiwan.
Click over to the Express article, it’s the most informative so far.
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1139166782399188994
Thank you Johnny U., Wrath off Khan, and all who sent in materials on what could be a flashpoint event.