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🔴 Here we go again, Irak:

• 3 Katyushas land in Green Zone (Reuters)
• Target was US Embassy
• Sirens at embassy
• One fell between embassy and Gov building (Mayadeen)

🔴 BREAKING: Pentagon chief says US has restored “level of deterrence” on Iran. (AFP)

🔴 Al Asad Airbase:

– 16 missiles were launched

– 12 struck

– Hit tents, taxiways, a parking lot and damaged a helicopter.

🔴 Esper: confirms 16 missiles were fired and that only 12 impacted their targets. Only one impacted Irbil and the rest hit Al Assad. The missiles were launched from three locations within Iran.

🔴 BREAKING: Top Pentagon general: Iran fired missiles with intent ‘to kill personnel,’ US warning system prevented loss of life. – 7News

🔴 IRAQ: Anche stasera alcuni razzi lanciati verso la zona verde si Baghdad. Tre razzi impattano nelle vicinanze dell’Ambasciata USA, il meno impreciso cade a 100 metri dalla sede diplomatica. – Angelo Gambella

🔴 LIBIA: Più di una fonte libica riferisce della presunta “cattura” di Serraj da parte di armati dopo essere atterrato a Mitiga. Altra fonte aggiunge che il Presidente è ricomparso a Tripoli, prima di far perdere nuovamente le tracce. Difficile riconoscere verità da propaganda.

🔴 BREAKING: Multiple blasts heard in Green Zone, central Baghdad. …si vede che con le buone non la capiscono… 3 petardi che mio zio di Costanza li fa più potenti…

🔴 3 “Katyusha” rockets landed in the Green Zone according to reports, a fire has been ignited due to them.

🔴 OSINT: The response from the PMU will begin this evening.

🔴 BREAKING: Al-Jazeera Correspondent: A missile attack targeting the Green Zone in Baghdad and sirens sounding in the area.

🔴 Attivi i Proxy iraniani in Irak. Razzi sulla zona verde di Baghdad.

⚫ PROXY – Milizie non regolari che combattono su ordine di qualcun altro e utilizzate quando non si vuole assumere direttamente la responsabilità di certe azioni.

🔴 As I said earlier today… Iran may be “happy”, but the proxies will do what Iran really wants.

🔴 “U.S. early warning systems detected the incoming ballistic missiles well in advance, providing U.S. and coalition forces adequate time to take appropriate force protection measures.” – Pentagon

🔴 US House will vote to prevent Trump waging war with Iran, says Nancy Pelosi

🔴 2020 so far:

– Killing of Soleimani

– Iran targets US base

– Indonesia floods

– Australia bushfires

– 176 die in Tehran plane crash

– Terror attacks in Kenya, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Somalia

– Libya conflict

– Ghosn arrest warrant

– Quakes in Puerto Rico and Mexico

⚫ Reminder: It’s only been one week of 2020!

Și uite-așa am scăpat noi de amenințarea rusă…

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🔴 DE-ESCALATION PROCESS STARTS NOW, WW3 IS CANCELED!

🔴 When Khamenei and Zarif say it’s over then it’s the “official” part...
The unofficial part and dirty, bloody work will do others (plausible deniability). That’s the remaining risk here…

🔴 BREAKING: TRUMP on IRAN:

• Iran will not have nuclear weapons
• Iran appears to be standing down
• No casualties; minimal damage to bases
• Early warning system worked
• Our forces prepared

🔴 TRUMP:

• Non ci sarà pace in Medio Oriente finché l’Iran sponsorizzerà il terrorismo.

• Oggi l’Iran canta morte all’America. Ma vi ricordò una cosa cantavano la stessa cosa dopo l’accordo sul nucleare del 2013.

• Pronte nuove sanzioni contro l’Iran.

• Vogliamo prosperità e pace per l’Iran.

• Non ci serve il petrolio del Medio Oriente siamo indipendenti energicamente.

🔴 Alleged pic of a SAM fragment consistent with the Tor M1 close to the crash site of the Ukrainian airliner.

🔴 Colpo di Scena: Serraj non è sul volo proveniente da Tripoli, nonostante la sua presenza a Roma fosse stata annunciata.
L’incontro con Conte è saltato, si mormora, dopo che è stata diffusa la notizia della presenza di Haftar a Palazzo Chigi. …non c’era parcheggio… continuando così con queste “politiche” il Mediterraneo ormai è andato, la zona Ovest andrà alla Francia, quella Est a Russia-Turchia…

🔴 Lev Dengov, che guida il gruppo di contatto russo che si occupa della Libia dice che le trattative di Roma sulla Libia era Conte, Haftar e Serraj sono fallite a causa della “inadeguata organizzazione italiana”.

🔴 This afternoon, Sec Def Esper will brief members of Congress in the House and the Senate on the situation with Iran.

🔴 Eight patients with viral pneumonia of unknown causes in Wuhan, capital of China’s Hubei, have been cured of the disease and were discharged from hospital Wednesday, local health authorities said.

🔴 Kata’ib Hezbollah/Iraq: “Our calculations for response to US have now become more urgent and complex.”

🔴 Dopo tanti giorni di tensione una notizia leggera… “Harry d’Inghilterra rinuncia al ruolo di principe reale. Si trasferirà con la moglie in Canada.”

🔴 IRAQI CLERIC SADR SAYS CRISIS IS OVER AFTER SPEECHES FROM TRUMP AND IRAN – STATEMENT

Sadr to Iraqi militias: Don’t start any military operations against US!

🔴 Images released by Imamedia.org confirms the use Zolfaghar and upgraded Qaim missiles, the upgrade to the Qaim is reportedly a detached warhead. – Iran/US/Iraq

PEACE ON EARTH!

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🔴 È in atto una massiccia campagna di disinformazione a livello globale riguardante le notizie provenienti da Iraq e Iran. Valutate con attenzione! – geopoliticalcenter.it 🙃

🔴 While we wait for the presidents speech: Bad, bad storm is rocking Jerusalem right now.

🔴 È in corso ora a Roma l’incontro tra il Premier Conte ed il generale Khalifa Haftar. Alle ore 19 è previsto invece un incontro con il premier libico al Serraj. …era meglio la de Filippi come mediatrice…

🔴 Iraq/Italia Stato Maggiore Difesa: Nessun militare italiano coinvolto nell’attacco missilistico avvenuto nella notte contro la base statunitense di Erbil.
Mezzi e infrastrutture in uso al contingente militare italiano non hanno subito danni.

🔴 UPDATE: US- Iran:

• Iran Informed Iraq prior to attack!
• Total 15 🚀, 2 bases
• NO US/Iraq Casualties
• Khamenei: Not enough
• Flights restrictions for Gulf, Iraq
• Slovenia, Croatia leaving Iraq
• UK FM coming to Washington
• Trump 📞 Qatar

🔴 Alle ore 17 (ore 11 locali) è previsto un intervento del Presidente statunitense Trump. …preparo i pop corn…

🔴 Accordo tra Putin ed Erdogan per un cessate il fuoco in Libia. ..alla fine se la stanno spartendo loro…

🔴 In Istanbul, Erdogan and Putin inaugurate the Turk Stream gas pipeline and call for a ceasefire in Libya. One also wonders what Putin may have carried with him from Damascus.

🔴 Breaking/NewsMap:
I finally found the exact location of the PS752 crash site. The Boeing traveled more than 20 kilometres after Flightradar24 lost its track over Parand and crashed in the town of Khalaj Abad/Iran.

This also means, the eyewitness video, filmed from Ferdosiye, got inverted during the upload (happens with some phones).

“Technical error” becomes less and less likely. Iranian air defence missile accident more certain.

It was in a right-turn when it got hit. Everything else was physics and destiny. Video and interruption of communication indicates, pilots had no control after the hit anymore as fires were raging on board. – Julian Röpcke/Journalist BILD

🔴 Planetlabs have released the first Sat. imagery of Ain Al Assad Airbase after the Iran attack showing the damage caused.

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Più di duecentomila anni dalla comparsa dell’Homo sapiens e la capacità di gestire l’escalation dei conflitti è rimasta più o meno la stessa…

Ah, no, aspetta. Ora c’è anche Twitter…

🔴 BREAKING: There has been a shooting in Ottawa with ‘many injuries reported,’ according to a tweet from the Ottawa Police. Officials are telling people to avoid the area of ‘the 400 block of Gilmour Street.’ – CBS

🔴 After German Defence Minister, PM of UK calls Iran to urgently de escalate the situation. 🔴 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls on Iran to “urgently de-escalate”

🔴 The Pentagon is being silent about releasing a Battle Damage Assesment until later today.
I guarantee it will be explosive to say the least.
There is a reason why Biden was refusing to comment
There is a reason why Trump made a tweet about how everything is fine and dandy…

🔴 Kuwait says its state-run News Agency’s Twitter account was hacked and posted false story on US troops withdrawing from the nation.

🔴 KUNA: “Our social media account (Twitter) has been hacked.”

🔴 Watch out for cyber attacks by Iran. What happened to Kuwait News Agency (likely got hacked by Iranian hackers to spread false report about American troop withdrawal from Kuwait) could happen to others too. Be very careful! Question even reports coming from credible media orgs!

🔴 AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI ON MISSILE ATTACKS ON AIN AL-ASSAD: THIS WAS JUST A SLAP ON US FACE. REVENGE IS SOMETHING ELSE.

🔴 PENTAGON: saying that Iran intentionally missed US troops at bases. – CNN …BIG LOOOL !

🔴 BREAKING: Iran informed us verbally about the attacks on AinAlAssad and Erbil bases – Iraqi PM

🔴 Poland: evacuated its ambassador from Iraq at the request of Britain for security reasons.

🔴 Statement from Iraqi PM: Shortly after midnight on Wednesday 8/1/2020, we received an official verbal message from the Islamic Republic of Iran that the Iranian response to the assassination of the martyr Qassem Soleimani had begun or It will start in a little while.

🔴 Another video has been released, this video includes launches of the missiles launched at Ain Al Assad Airbase from Iran into Iraq.

🔴 SAUDI TANKER GIANT BAHRI SUSPENDS TRANSITS THROUGH STRAITS OF HORMUZ | PETROBRAS, OTHER TANKER MAJORS ALSO SUSPENDING SAILINGS THROUGH STRAITS OF HORMUZ.

🔴 REUTERS: IRAN CIVIL AVIATION ORG HEAD SAYS WILL NOT GIVE BLACK BOX OF CRASHED UKRAINIAN AIRLINER TO BOEING – IRAN MEDIA …that should be the end of civil aviation to and over Iran…they can’t seriously mean that…

🔴 L’ambasciata Ucraina di Tehran esclude la pista terroristica per lo schianto del Boeing 737. …non è terrorismo… semplicemente hanno sbagliato e hanno abbattuto un aereo di linea… Si tratta di incapacità iraniana… hanno lanciato un missile della contraerea contro un aereo appena decollato.

🔴 IRAN: esclude di consegnare scatole nere del jet caduto alla Boeing. – ANSA

…fa parte dell’ICAO. Secondo l’allegato 13 è il Paese che conduce le indagini (State of occurrence) …certo lo hanno buttato giù loro stessi…

🔴 L’Iran non consegnerà a Boeing le scatole nere del volo “precipitato” a Teheran. Ma le scatole nere appartengono agli ucraini non agli iraniani. Perché non le consegnano? Anche da questi gesti traspare l’anima dittatoriale del regime…

🔴 Ora saranno attivati i proxy iraniani contro USA e Israele.

🔴 Lets make one thing clear though, Finland nor the US for that matter will have any warning of the proxies (PMU/Kata’ib Hezbollah for example) this will be were the real Iranian response comes from.

🔴 BREAKING: PMU says The first Iranian response to killing of Suleimani took place and now the time has come for Iraqi response.

🔴 Our next strike depends on Washington’s responset to the first one – Iranian Defense Minister

🔴 “The corruptive presence of the US in the region of West Asia must be stopped.” …ohhh it’s gone from Hard Revenge to Severe Revenge….

🔴 On Iran’s attack:

1) We still don’t have battle-damage assessments.
2) We still don’t have firm casualty assessments.
3) We still don’t know how the U.S. will respond.
4) We still don’t know how Iraq will respond.
5) We still don’t know for sure if Iran has more planned.

🔴 NO U.S. CASUALTIES IN IRAN STRIKES ON IRAQ BASE: U.S. OFFICIAL – BBG

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🔴 Nu vă supărați, știe cineva, scutul de la Deveșelu e din același lot de fabricație cu cele care trebuiau să apere bazele americane din Irak, vizitate de rachetele iraniene?

🔴 Plane which crashed near Tehran, Iran was carrying 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, 4 Afghanis, 3 Germans, and 3 Britons according to reports citing officials.

🔴 B 737 ucraino è precipitato in Iran, tutti morti (177). Crash vicino a Teheran. Sai le speculazioni e le teorie.
Prime info parlano di avaria al motore. – Guido Olimpio/Corriere

🔴 BREAKING: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to visit Iraq tomorrow – Turkish Media

🔴 BREAKING: France has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq.

🔴 BREAKING: 22 missiles fired on US bases in Iraq. 17 landed in Ain Al Assad and five in Erbil. No one wounded – Iraqi Army

🔴 US Embassy in Jordan have issued a security update. Iran

“Out of an abundance of caution, the Embassy is advising U.S. government personnel to avoid non-essential movements outside the home on January 8, including keeping children home from school.”

🔴 Corea del Nord: Almeno fino a ieri media hanno dedicato notizie scarne a uccisione di Soleimani, storia quasi nascosta. Per due ragioni, dicono analisti:

⚫ 1. Temono di fare la stessa fine.

⚫ 2. Vogliono celare ai sudditi che USA possono eliminare figure importanti.

Guido Olimpio/Corriere

🔴 È incredibile vedere ancora testate nazionali dell’informazione dare credito alla propaganda iraniana che parla di 80 morti tra le truppe americane.

🔴 Everything finished and we don’t seek escalation. – Zarif

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🔴 Iran’s Leader delivering speech after missile attacks on U.S. – PressTV

🔴 Iran’s Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei to make major speech soon.

🔴 B 737 ucraino è precipitato in Iran, tutti morti (177). Crash vicino a Teheran. Sai le speculazioni e le teorie.
Prime info parlano di avaria al motore.

🔴 Iran La maggior parte dei passeggeri deceduti erano cittadini iraniani. (Media iraniani)

🔴 ‪Per gli iraniani la rappresaglia per la morte di Soleimani è conclusa qui… ‬prima o dopo l’aereo intendono? Hanno dichiarato 80 morti appena finito il primo attacco, questo già rende la dichiarazione priva di ogni fondamento. Come avrebbero potuto saperlo? Avevano la go pro attaccata i missili? E come potrebbero essere nascoste 80 vittime americane ai media? Cazzate…

🔴 La rappresaglia iraniana è arrivata. Lancia di missili balistici contro le basi di Erbil e Al Asad.
Teheran aggiunge: non cerchiamo la guerra.
Vogliono chiuderla qui, vediamo ora Trump. – Guido Olimpio/Corriere

🔴 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to make announcement soon following Iran’s missile attack targeting U.S. air bases in Iraq.

🔴 Iraqi government have issued an update to say no casualties/injuries were sustained by Iraqi’s due to the Iranian Missile attacks. US. …17 missilies hit the base but no casualites? Bit hard to digest…

🔴 This video is circulating on Social Media, Still not clear who released it (If Iran or Iranian backed proxies) but its of recent and shows a scenario of an assassination attempt of Donald Trump after General Soleimani was killed.

🔴 Sonic booms from Israeli jets over the Mediterranean Sea.

🔴 L’attenzione dei media passa dalla rappresaglia notturna iraniana sulla base in Iraq alla caduta, da chiarire, dell’aereo civile ucraino e alle sue vittime.

🔴 L’aereo ucraino “precipitato” in Iran era in fiamme quando in volo.

🔴 La FAA vieta a tutti gli aeromobili registrati negli Stati Uniti ed agli operatori commerciali statunitensi di sorvolare lo spazio aereo sul Golfo Persico, sul Golfo di Oman, Iran e Iraq.

🔴 Fly Dubai suspends flights to/from Baghdad.

🔴 IRAN: Al-Arabiya reports two earthquakes near Iranian nuclear rector in Bushehr.

🔴 If reports are correct, required range and flight profile in videos would indicate use of precision-guided solid-propellant Fateh class missiles (Fateh 110, Fateh 313, Zolfaghar) with a warhead of about 500kg.

🔴 JUST IN: All crew and passengers on board Ukrainian airliner in Iran dead – Ukraine foreign ministry official tells Reuters, citing information from the airline.

🔴 Press TV says they can’t verify the number of American casualties (80) being claimed by Iranian media. …HILARIOUS!

🔴 La tv di stato iraniana parla di 80 morti americani durante l’attacco di stanotte. La cifra appare priva di ogni fondamento.

🔴 Israeli security cabinet meeting called to assess the regional situation.

🔴 A handful of people waving Iraqi, Iranian and Palestinian flags in Tehran apparently celebrate the missile strikes on Iraqi bases housing US-led coalition forces. Iran says 80 American military personnel killed while Pentagon says there were no casualties.

🔴 BREAKING: 🇺🇦 Ukraine International Airlines, Boeing 737-8KV Callsign AUI752 flight PS752 crashed in Tehran shortly after take off due to a technical issue, 🇮🇷 Iranian state-run news outlet ISNA reported.

🔴 Al momento nessuna risposta americana allo Strike iraniano.

🔴 BREAKING: UK’s Defence HQ confirms no UK military casualties in Iranian missile strikes on coalition bases in Iraq.

🔴 UPDATE: Iran’s Civil Aviation Authority has said “The cause of the Ukraine International Airlines 737 crash is not clear yet”.

🔴 Several countries are now instructing their carriers to avoid large airspace over Middle East including Iraqi and Iranian airspace.

🔴 BREAKING: Iranian Revolutionary Guards – IRGC: We monitor 100 targets for America and its allies in the region, and we will hit these targets in the event of any American aggression.

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🔴 BREAKING: Boeing 737 passenger airplane, belonging to Ukraine International Airlines has crashed near Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport. 180 passengers and crew were onboard.

🔴 UPDATE: FlightRadar24 reports the Ukrainian airliner reached a maximum altitude of 7,925 feet before tracking stopped and contact was lost.

🔴 BREAKING: Initial data on the Ukrainian flight is coming in. The speed data ubruptly stopped meaning the most likely explanation was an explosion mid air. Any other situation likely would’ve left data.

🔴 Notizia confermata: L’Iran ha lanciato almeno una dozzina di missili Fateh-10 sulla base USA di Ain al Assad in Iraq. I missili hanno colpito la base. Esplosioni.

🔴 CNN says US military was already aware of the Iranian attack.

🔴 CNN: At least two ballistic missiles hit two separate areas in Erbil, Kurdish security officials say. One missile landed inside the perimeter of Erbil International Airport without exploding, the second missile hit an area west of the city of Erbil without causing casualties.

🔴 Iran’s foreign minister Zarif says Iran’s response was proportional and does not want this to escalate. State media are reporting that senior officials in country won’t launch anymore attacks as long as America does not attack.

🔴 BREAKING: Trump has authorized a military retaliatory strike on Iran IRGC targets that launched missiles at U.S. military bases in Iraq.
The order will be carried out in the coming hours. Trump has told pertinent personel to leave the White House.

🔴 2044 Eastern Update – United States Department of Defense states there were zero United States casualties as a result from the Iranian ballistic missile strike on Ain Al Assad Airbase in Iraq.

🔴 Trump after the Iranian attack on Ein al-Assad: everything is fine.

🔴 BREAKING: as per pro-IRGC outlet, Tasnim:
Second round of Missile attacks on US bases has just begun!

🔴 IRGC says will never separate ‘Zionist regime’ from crimes committed by ‘US criminal regime’.

White House says aware of attack on US facilities in Iraq, Trump has been briefed.

🔴 IRAQ:

– Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have launched dozens of missiles at US base

– 13 rockets hit Al Asad Airbase, which hosts US forces in western Iraq

– US confirms troops are under attack by Iran

– Activity near US base in Erbil

– Trump briefed

– Oil surges by over 3.5%

🔴 BREAKING: US official to ABC confirms Iranian ballistic missiles have been launched on multiple US military facilities in Iraq including Erbil in northern Iraq and Al Asad Air Base in west.