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\nBaghdad Airport, Post-Strike<\/p>\n
\nBaghdad Airport, Post-Strike<\/p>\n
Today’s remarkably bad idea is brought to us by The Islamic Republic,\u00a0which is looking to avenge the death of Qassem Soleimani, officials said. The head of Iranian military operations in the Middle East, and the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force was killed by a US air strike in Iraq.<\/p>\n
He was killed at Baghdad airport, along with other Iran-backed militia figures,\u00a0 in a strike ordered by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
AMF.<\/p>\n
By NAHAL TOOSI and NATASHA BERTRAND<\/strong><\/p>\n The Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa, U.S. intelligence reports say, according to a U.S. government official familiar with the issue and another official who has seen the intelligence.<\/p>\n News of the plot comes as Iran continues to seek ways to retaliate for President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to kill a powerful Iranian general earlier this year, the officials said. If carried out, it could dramatically ratchet up already serious tensions between the U.S. and Iran and create enormous pressure on Trump to strike back \u2014 possibly in the middle of a tense election season.<\/p>\n U.S. officials have been aware of a general threat against the ambassador, Lana Marks, since the spring, the officials said. But the intelligence about the threat to the ambassador has become more specific in recent weeks. The Iranian Embassy in Pretoria is involved in the plot, the U.S. government official said.<\/p>\n Still, attacking Marks is one of several options U.S. officials believe Iran\u2019s regime is considering for retaliation since the general, Qassem Soleimani, was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike in January. At the time, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. killed Soleimani to reestablish deterrence against Iran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read the rest of the article here: Politico<\/a><\/p>\n The Mad Mullahs spewed the usual rhetoric after Soleimani met his end in Iraq, which is to be expected. To even threaten to target a US Ambassador in a revenge attack smacks of desperation on their part, and certainly will not end well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"