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2020-01-07 15:24:31Z
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US forces on high alert for possible Iranian drone attacks, and intelligence shows Iran moving military equipment - CNN
The alert reflects the heightened tensions between the US and Iran in the wake of last week's US drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani. US officials have claimed the strike against the general was carried out to prevent an "imminent" attack in the region that would have put American lives at risk, but have so far declined to provide details about the intelligence.
US intelligence also has observed Iran moving military equipment, including drones and ballistic missiles, over the last several days. US officials said the movement may be an Iranian effort to secure its weapons from a potential US strike, or put them in positions to launch their own attacks.
"There were indications that we needed to monitor the threats" even more closely than is already being done, one of the US officials said, referring to Monday night's state of heightened alert. The second official described it as "all Patriot batteries and forces in the area on high alert" against an "imminent attack threat."
Iran has put missiles on its drones that have been used in other attacks, including a significant attack on Saudi oil installations last year. While forces have already been on high alert for several days, they were even more vigilant Monday night, both officials said.
Based on the intelligence, the US was watching for potential attacks specifically against US locations in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. On Monday, the US Maritime Administration issued a warning to commercial vessels operating in the Middle East that "there remains the possibility of Iranian action against U.S. maritime interests in the region."
The decision to kill Soleimani has touched off a fresh crisis between the US and Iran. In an interview with CNN's Frederik Pleitgen on Tuesday, Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called the drone strike an act of "state terrorism."
"This is an act of aggression against Iran and amounts to an armed attack against Iran, and we will respond. But we will respond proportionally not disproportionally," he said. "We will respond lawfully. We are not lawless people like President Trump."
Later Tuesday morning, national security adviser Robert O'Brien said the US had intelligence leading to the Soleimani killing that American diplomats, facilities and military personnel were at risk of attack.
"He was plotting to kill, to attack American facilities and diplomats, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines (who) were located at those facilities, correct," O'Brien said during a gaggle with reporters at the White House.
O'Brien would not provide additional details on the threat, only saying the US had "strong evidence and strong intelligence."
Pressed as to whether there continues to be an imminent threat, O'Brien said, "I think the Iranians are talking about retaliating every day in the open sources and we're monitoring it and we're taking it very seriously."
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2020-01-07 14:22:00Z
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Soleimani funeral stampede in Iran leaves at least 40 dead, state TV reports - Fox News
At least 40 Iranians were crushed to death Tuesday in a stampede that erupted during the funeral for Qassem Soleimani, the general killed last week in a U.S. airstrike, the country’s state media is reporting.
The gory episode in Soleimani's hometown of Kerman, which also reportedly left more than 200 injured, came as the U.S. Maritime Administration is warning ships across the Middle East to be on alert for possible retaliatory attacks from Iran.
“Unfortunately as a result of the stampede, some of our compatriots have been injured and some have been killed during the funeral processions," Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of Iran’s emergency medical services, told state media.
Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a funeral procession, in the city of Kerman, Iran, on Tuesday. (AP/Tasnim News Agency)
The cause of the stampede was not immediately clear. Videos posted online showed people lying lifeless on a road and others shouting and trying to help them — and the incident has now delayed Soleimani’s funeral services.
It’s not the first time that chaos has erupted at a funeral for an influential Iranian figure.
In 1989, a funeral procession in Tehran for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was interrupted when his half-naked remains toppled out of an open coffin live on state television. Mourners had blocked the path of a truck carrying the deceased leader of the Iranian revolution and tore at his burial shroud, knocking his body to the ground. That led the broadcast to be cut short and his body airlifted by military helicopter away from the crowd until his remains could be rewrapped.
Soleimani, before he was killed last week, was the head of the Iran Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force. The U.S. had blamed him for the killing of American troops in Iraq and accused him of plotting new attacks just before his death Friday in a drone strike near Baghdad’s airport. Soleimani also led forces in Syria backing President Bashar Assad in a long war and served as the point man for Iranian proxies in countries like Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.
Speaking in Kerman on Tuesday, Hossein Salami – the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards – threatened to “set ablaze” places supported by the United States to avenge Soleimani’s death. His remarks were met with cries of “Death to Israel!” from a crowd of supporters, according to The Associated Press.
A separate procession Tuesday in Soleimani’s honor, in the capital of Tehran, is said to have drawn more than one million people.
Iran so far has worked up 13 sets of plans to avenge Soleimani's killing, according to a report from the Tasnim news agency.
It quoted Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, as saying that even the weakest among them would be a “historic nightmare” for the U.S. But he declined to give any details.
“If the U.S. troops do not leave our region voluntarily and upright, we will do something to carry their bodies horizontally out," Shamkhani said.
The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened on Tuesday to "set ablaze" places supported by the United States over the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani last week. (AP/Tasnim News Agency)
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The fiery rhetoric from Iran has prompted the U.S. Maritime Administration to issue a warning to ships across the Middle East.
“The Iranian response to this action, if any, is unknown, but there remains the possibility of Iranian action against U.S. maritime interests in the region,” it said.
Oil tankers were targeted in mine attacks last year the U.S. blamed on Iran. Tehran has denied being responsible, though it did seize oil tankers around the crucial Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20 percent of the world’s crude oil travels.
The U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet says it will work with shippers in the region to minimize any possible threat.
The 5th Fleet “has and will continue to provide advice to merchant shipping as appropriate regarding recommended security precautions in light of the heightened tensions and threats in the region,” 5th Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Joshua Frey told The Associated Press.
Meanwhile, Iranian Gen. Alireza Tabgsiri, the chief of the Guard’s navy, issued his own warning.
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“Our message to the enemies is to leave the region," Tabgsiri said, according to the ISNA news agency. The Guard routinely has tense encounters with the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf.
Soleimani will ultimately be laid to rest between the graves of Enayatollah Talebizadeh and Mohammad Hossein Yousef Elahi, two former Guard comrades. The two died in Operation Dawn 8 in Iran's 1980s war with Iraq in which Soleimani also took part, a 1986 amphibious assault that cut Iraq off from the Persian Gulf and led to the end of the bloody war that killed 1 million people.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2020-01-07 13:30:18Z
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Soleimani killing: Iran's Zarif vows response to US 'act of war' - Al Jazeera English
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned the United States that its days in the region are "numbered", describing the US assassination of a top Iranian military commander last week as "an act of war".
In an interview with Al Jazeera on Tuesday, Zarif said his country's response to the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, would come in due course.
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"Iran will respond because there was an act of war - an act of war combined with an act of terrorism against a senior official of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a citizen of Iran," Zarif said.
"We are bound to protect our citizens and our military officials. It was an act that has to be reciprocated by Iran. We will make the necessary deliberations and it will be an act that we will do, not in a hurry, not in a hasty manner."
Soleimani was killed along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi), an Iran-backed umbrella organisation comprising several militias, and several other people.
The attacks triggered a dramatic escalation of tensions in the region, and marked the most significant confrontation between the two countries in recent years.
"The act by the United States ... it enraged the feelings of many people outside Iran, inside Iran - that will have consequences for the United States," Zarif said.
His remarks came as dozens of people were killed in a stampede that erupted in the city of Kerman, Soleimani's hometown, during the slain commander's funeral procession.
Hundreds of thousands of mourners had gathered in the small city for the burial of Soleimani, which was postponed until further notice following the stampede, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
Tuesday's funeral comes after days of processions that attracted huge crowds in the streets of Ahvaz in southwestern Iran, followed by Mashhad in the northwest, the capital Tehran and the holy city of Qom.
'What are they afraid of?'
In response to the assassination of Soleimani, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned earlier this week that "a harsh retaliation is waiting".
Washington argues it killed the commander in self-defence, aiming to disrupt plans to attack US personnel and interests. US President Donald Trump has defended the killing of Soleimani and threatened more retaliatory actions if Iran targets US citizens or assets.
Zarif meanwhile was scheduled to attend the United Nations' meetings later this week, but said his visa request was blocked by Washington.
"Secretary Pompeo called secretary-general of the United Nations yesterday, and said they didn't have time to consider my request and therefore they will not issue a visa," Zarif said, adding that the decision was in violation of US commitments.
"What are they afraid of? What do they think would happen if I go to New York," Zarif said.
"They think that I cannot communicate with the American people without coming to the United States. I can communicate with the American people sitting at home".
Although it is unclear how or when Iran may respond to the US assassination of Soleimani, any response is likely to come once the mourning period ends.
In a speech broadcast live on television earlier on Tuesday, Zarif said the US president committed a "stupid mistake by assassinating the greatest commander who stood in the face of terrorism".
"Our region, because of the US intervention ... has become victim to the endless war," Zarif said.
"Removing the US from western Asia is what will ... end wars and death in this region."
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2020-01-07 12:30:00Z
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The two words that could tip the debate on Iran -- and help decide the next election - CNN
Republicans cheering Trump's decision to target Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani have invariably described it as decisive. Democrats criticizing his choice have denounced it as impulsive. Whether voters ultimately see Trump's decision making in this case, and his handling of foreign policy more broadly, as decisive or impulsive could prove the pivotal dynamic in determining how comfortable they are with him managing the nation's global relations for a second term.
"The difference between decisive and impulsive turns in part on what happens after you make the decision," said Richard Fontaine, chief executive officer of the nonpartisan Center for a New American Security and a former top foreign policy adviser to the late Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona. "If this in retrospect turns out well it won't easily be marshalled as an example of the bad things that you get when you have an impulsive president. If this is the beginning of a descent into Middle East chaos, this will be exhibit A in that case."
Though Trump came to office promising skepticism of overseas military engagement, particularly in the Middle East, his decision to strike Soleimani shows the President (and his GOP defenders) defining himself on national security in a manner more akin to most of his modern Republican predecessors.
Recent Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush presented themselves not as masters of complex international dynamics but as decisive men of action and conviction who would move with moral certitude to protect American national security. Reagan liked to say that "there are no easy answers, but there are simple answers." Bush called himself "the decider."
By contrast, the Democratic presidents over the past half century -- Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama -- have usually presented themselves as more deliberative. All focused on carefully weighing the second- and third-order implications of foreign policy decisions, particularly whether to use military force, and never losing sight of what political scientists have called the law of unintended consequences. Long meetings analyzing the potential ripple effects of every foreign policy decision were hallmarks of each man's presidency. Implicitly contrasting himself with Bush, Obama internally even set as his guiding principle for foreign policy: "Don't do stupid [stuff]."
In practice, these portraits were always oversimplified: Reagan, for all his saber-rattling, was actually very cautious about using force and both Clinton (in the Balkans) and Obama (in Libya and Afghanistan) authorized substantial military operations. George H.W. Bush, the other Republican president since Reagan, probably tilted more toward the deliberative than the decisive side of this spectrum (though he too eventually pursued the first Iraq War to reverse Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.)
But many foreign policy experts agree that even with these qualifications there remains a clear separation in the style of leadership each party prizes.
"If you look at the difference between the recent Republican presidents versus Democratic presidents, which is a pretty good proxy, you certainly have people who are seen and see themselves as more decisive on the Republican side and more deliberative on the Democratic side," says Fontaine. "The rap against George W. Bush is he was a cowboy who shot first and asked which direction it was later; he often said, 'I go by my gut.' The rap on Obama was 'Well, he's Spock, he's cerebral, he thinks things to death.' "
The response to Trump's order to kill Soleimani has flowed precisely through these familiar grooves.
Perceptions of each party reinforced
Decisive has been the most consistent word of praise from Republicans applauding Trump's decision. "In ordering this attack, President Trump took decisive and defensive action to protect American lives and our nation's interest in the region," GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida declared in a statement. Trump "took decisive, preemptive action," said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "This was a decisive blow," echoed John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, on Twitter.
The most common criticism from the opposing side has been that Trump acted rashly, without considering the the long-term consequences. "Trump makes decisions impulsively, without explanation," Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said in Iowa last week, adding: "Once again we must worry about unintended consequences and the impact of unilateral decision making." Former Vice President Joe Biden said that by killing Soleimani, Trump "tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox." On ABC's "This Week" program, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned, "We do not need this President either bumbling or impulsively getting us into a major war."
Democratic pollster Jeremy Rosner, who served on the National Security Council for Clinton during the 1990s, says these contrasting responses reinforce long-standing public perceptions about each party's strengths and weaknesses in managing national security.
"This difference is real and long standing," Rosner said. "On one side, the public tends to see Republicans as more forceful, more decisive, more willing to act, more willing to use force. That has a positive in that it strikes people often as strong and willing to act out of a sense of principles and vision and strategy. It also has a weakness in that it seems at times with W. Bush, or a little different way with Trump now, seems rash, impulsive, dangerous, trigger happy."
Democrats in turn, Rosner continued, "tend to be seen as less willing to use force, less certain about their strategic vision about national security, too hesitant sometimes and often too willing to heed US public opinion rather than to have some vision of strategic interests that supersedes public opinion. The positive side of all that is Democrats seem more deliberative, consultative, restrained, less trigger-happy, more prudent."
Americans aren't consistent in preference
Trump's overall record creates challenges for presenting him as a bold "decider" in the manner of Reagan or George W. Bush. Trump did act decisively to strike at Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons against his own population -- a notable contrast with Obama, who also warned Syria against such an attack but ultimately blinked at delivering the punishment. But Trump has also displayed indecision and wavered conspicuously on other issues, from how to deal with North Korea to waiting until the very last moment before calling off a planned earlier military strike against Iran for destroying an American drone.
"He hasn't been decisive across the board," says Peter Feaver, who was a National Security Council aide to George W. Bush and is now a professor of public policy at Duke University. "That works in this instance, but it doesn't work across the board. He has been feckless on Syria, feckless vis-a-vis Turkey, vis-a-vis Russia. While you are absolutely right that's how this will be portrayed, that's a hard sell if you look at the totality of his foreign policy."
Feaver, who studied public opinion and communications on national security issues for Bush at the National Security Council, and Rosner, who did the same for Clinton, both agree Americans have not consistently preferred a president seen as more decisive over one viewed as more deliberative, or vice versa. If anything, Americans have oscillated between the two poles, veering from Clinton to Bush to Obama and then Trump.
These assessments have "pluses and minuses for both parties," Rosner says. "Whether it is a plus or a minus tends to depend heavily, fundamentally, about how a particular operation or issue comes out. National security is the most unideological issue in the realm of public affairs. The only ideological [impulse] the public has is they like things that work."
For that reason, Feaver thinks Trump is in a more exposed political position than his Democratic critics over Soleimani's death. Most Democrats, he notes, have not definitively said they would have rejected the strike; they have only accused Trump of approving it without fully considering the potential costs. That leaves them enormous flexibility, he notes, to second-guess Trump if events warrant.
While the attack has not yet prompted retaliatory violence from Iran or its proxies, it has already produced diplomatic disruption, including Iran's announcement that it was withdrawing further from its international agreement to limit its nuclear program, and the vote by Iraq's Parliament to demand the withdrawal of American troops from the country. Trump has responded with counter-threats to bomb Iran, including cultural sites protected under international law, if the country strikes American interests and to impose sanctions on Iraq if it evicts US forces. Though not yet producing military confrontation, this immediate cycle of action and response underscores how quickly tensions can escalate beyond the complete control of either side.
"The Democrats have an easier play here," Feaver said. "The 'decisiveness' of the President only wins politically if there are no unintended consequences, and I don't even think the Trump team believes that they are going to get away with this with no unintended consequences. There will be blowback, and whatever the blowback is will take the bloom off this rose."
Many political strategists have said that, given the pace of events in Trump's turbulent presidency, the decision to target Soleimani is unlikely to loom large for many voters next fall unless it triggers a sustained military confrontation with Iran. But it does seem likely to reinforce the basic portrait of Trump's behavior that each side is sketching for the 2020 election.
Democrats consistently portray Trump as volatile, uninformed and "erratic," a word that Schumer used repeatedly over the weekend to describe the President's foreign policy. Republicans, even those who sometimes criticize Trump's behavior or language, usually call him bold and confident, willing to make hard decisions and push through domestic and international opposition that other presidents would not.
The Soleimani killing offers plenty of evidence for both sides. Both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations considered but chose not to strike at the Iranian leader. In making the opposite choice, Trump has again solidified his image as a leader who does not accept the boundaries that constrained other presidents. Now he must hope that whatever happens next across the Mideast persuades most Americans that the times demand a president willing to take such risks, not only for himself, but also for the country.
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2020-01-07 11:37:00Z
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Stampede during Soleimani’s funeral procession kills at least 32, state TV reports - Fox News
At least 32 people were killed and another 190 injured in a stampede Tuesday that broke out during a funeral procession for the Iranian general killed last week in a U.S.-led airstrike, according to Iranian state media.
The incident occurred in Gen. Qassem Soleimani's hometown of Kerman, in southeastern Iran, according to Iran's state media. Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of Iran’s emergency medical services, gave the latest casualty toll in an interview with state TV. Earlier he confirmed the stampede without providing any figures.
An online report from the state-run television initially said 35 people had died and another 48 were injured, without citing where it obtained the information, according to the Associated Press.
"Unfortunately as a result of the stampede, some of our compatriots have been injured and some have been killed during the funeral processions," Koulivand said. Videos posted online showed people lying lifeless on a road, others shouting and trying to give help them.
The incident draws comparison to the 1989 Tehran funeral procession of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini – whose half-naked remains toppled out of an open coffin live on state television. Mourners blocked the path of a truck carrying the deceased leader of the Iranian revolution and tore at his burial shroud, knocking his body to the ground. The broadcast was cut short and his body airlifted by military helicopter away from the crowd until his remains could be rewrapped in the traditional Muslim burial attire and placed in a metal casket for burial, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Iran has promised retaliation on American interests in the Middle East after an airstrike Thursday at Baghdad International Airport killed the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, and five other people.
A procession in Tehran on Monday drew over 1 million people in the Iranian capital for the man viewed as a national hero. The funeral continued into Iran’s holy city of Qom, where another massive crowd turned out, before Soleimani's remains and those of the others killed in the airstrike were brought to a central square in Kerman, where the general was set to be buried Tuesday.
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Speaking in Kerman, Hossein Salami, leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, threatened to "set ablaze" places supported by the United States over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last week, sparking cries from the crowd of supporters of "Death to Israel!"
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2020-01-07 11:16:09Z
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The latest on the US-Iran crisis: Live updates - CNN International
Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called US President Donald Trump's decision to order the drone strike that killed the country's top military commander an act of "state terrorism" in an interview with CNN Tuesday.
Zarif also said the Trump administration's decision to abandon the nuclear deal Tehran negotiated with world powers and embrace hardline policies against Iran "destroyed stability" in the Middle East, and he warned of worse to come if the US did not reverse course.
"This is an act of aggression against Iran and amounts to an armed attack against Iran, and we will respond. But we will respond proportionally not disproportionally," he said. "We will respond lawfully, we are not lawless people like President Trump."
Zarif was referring to a tweet Trump sent Saturday in which the President said that if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets, the United States has 52 Iranian sites targeted -- a reference to the number of Americans taken hostage in the 1979 revolution -- "some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture," he wrote.
Iran's top diplomat said those comments showed Trump "has no respect for international law and is prepared to commit war crimes -- attacking cultural sites is a war crime."
The interview came as Iran's parliament voted unanimously for a motion declaring all US forces as "terrorists" on Tuesday, according to Iran's state-news agency IRNA. The vote took place during the country's parliamentary session Tuesday, IRNA reported. After the plan was approved, delegates chanted, "Death to America."
Tensions between Iran and the US have escalated since Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's powerful Quds Force, was killed on Friday.
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2020-01-07 10:33:00Z
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