UPDATE
>Gen Mark Milley says he believes the Iranians wanted to kill Americans based on the targets the missiles hit. "I believe based on what I saw and what I know is that they were intended to cause structural damage, destroy vehicles and equipment and aircraft and to kill personnel."
The IRGC had intent to kill.
The IRGC had intent to kill.
The IRGC had intent to kill.
''This shifts our possible conclusions to 'They have only begun their attacks'. US Military is very, very wise. They just turned the IRGC's bloodlust into a game of chase the dragon.
IRGC will likely continue their attacks trough their militias, and escalate themselves into exposure for the world to see''
Chase the dragon or capitulate into weakness allowing your People overthrow you.
The choice is yours, bitches~
SITREP: 9:15 P.M. ET - Jan 7th
Iran fired 15 ballistic missiles
10 hit Iraq's Al Asad Airbase
No known U.S. casualties at this time
1 missile fell near Erbil Airport; no damage. 4 failed
Trump, senior officials held meetings
No Trump speech tonight
No U.S. response so far
Before and After shots of the damage
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1214936098679480320
"U.S. early earning systems detected the incoming ballistic missiles well in advance, providing U.S. and coalition forces adequate time to take appropriate force protection measures," a U.S. defense official tells reporters at the Pentagon
Here's where things get interesting:
>Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei: "Iran's missile attack is a slap in the face for the Americans. But military action is not sufficient - what's important is to end the corrupting presence of America in the region"
"slap in the face"
https://mobile.twitter.com/JZarif/status/1214736614217469953
>Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched.
Killing no one, injuring no Americans is NOT "proportionate measures" against torpedoing the keel of their black ops, commander 'moldy salami'.
The IRGC needs to follow through on their claims of 'hard revenge for the blood of their fallen'.. otherwise the people of Iran will see them as weak which would be a flash point for the people taking back their country after millions have protesting for months.
So how does this make sense?
Enter IRGC Propaganda:
[TL;DR] WE KILLED LOTS AND INJIRED WAY MORE BUT YOU CAN'T SEE THE BODIES BECAUSE TEH JOOS ATE THEM
>Iranian state media claims more than 80 US soldiers killed in missile barrage
>Purportedly dead troops ‘were immediately transferred out of the airbase by helicopters,’ Revolutionary Guard claims after no damage reported from retaliatory strike
>“An informed source at the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said over 80 American troops were killed and some 200 wounded in the IRGC’s missile strikes on the US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Anbar province in western Iraq,” Mehr News reported on Wednesday.
Who's Mehr?
>Mehr, which is owned by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization, a branch of the Iranian government, credited the report to “IRIB,” or the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran’s public broadcaster whose head is appointed directly by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"appointed directly by Ayatollah."
So his personal propagandist.
>“According to the accurate reports of our sources in this area, at least 80 American troops were killed and some 200 others were wounded, who were immediately transferred out of the airbase by helicopters,” the source was quoted as saying, apparently to explain the lack of any images of bodies despite the purportedly high death toll.
>The source said up to 20 “critical points” on the base were struck by 15 missiles, destroying “a significant number” of US drones and helicopters.
>“Despite the fact that Americans had been on high alert, their air defense was unable to respond,” the source was quoted by Mehr News as saying, warning that “As many as 104 critical points in the US’ positions in the region have been identified, which would be destroyed upon the US’ first mistake.”