This doesn't bode well
Iran Launches Ballistic Missiles Into Syria Against Terror Camps East Of Euphrates
It's a huge development in an extremely volatile environment: overnight Sunday Iran launched multiple ballistic missiles toward Syria against targets east of the Euphrates river.
Footage released through official state channels show missiles launched by Iran from its Kermanshah region in western Iran towards Syria, targeting ISIS positions east of the Euphrates in revenge for the September 22 attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, which killed 25 and injured scores more.
However, the United States will no doubt interpret the action as highly provocative as the US Army maintains bases precisely in the broad region targeted east of the Euphrates in Syria.
Iran says it launched missiles into Syria targeting Ahvaz attack 'ringleaders'
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has hit the ringleaders responsible for a terrorist attack on a military parade in Ahvaz on September 22, which killed 30 people and injured over 60.
In a statement published by its own outlet Sepah, the IRGC said its Aerospace Division targeted the "headquarters of the terrorists" east of the Euphrates in Syria. The statement was accompanied by photos of surface-to-surface missiles being launched. It claims that "a large number" of the terrorists were hit.****
Last month's attack on the military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz killed 30 people and injured around 70. Tehran is accusing the US and its allies in the Gulf of enabling the carnage.Washington has denied claims that it was to blame for the tragedy, instead accusing the Iranian government of poor governance and inability to protect its citizens. Rouhani shot back by saying it was like blaming 9/11 victims.
"No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders" - President Obama
This should go for countries
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We’ll, at least we can count on a measured response.
Not.
“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”
The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963
I wonder
who is really behind these missiles?
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
"No country on Earth
Non sequitur here. Iran's missles targeted IS, not Syrian citizens. And Syria has signed a military cooperation deal with Iran. Iraq and Russia also in alliance against IS with Syria and Iran.
I'm sure US neocon leadership will make as big a deal as they can out of this, but the US has no standing in Syria's choices of alliance. Obama helped give IS its foothold in Syria to please his neocon and MIC masters, and now they will jump on this to insure their investment pays off.
"If I sit silently, I have sinned." - Mossadegh
Thank you!
For providing the answer to my rhetorical question above!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
While in the hospital recently, I met a lovely woman
who initially identified herself to me as Kuwaiti. However, after getting to know me a bit, she confided that she had been born and raised in Homs, Syria.
She told me that, while her family was still in Homs, ISIL had killed her father and perhaps also her brother, who was missing without a trace. People told her mother that, since ISIL had apparently targeted her family, she should take her daughter and leave the country because members of ISIL were also raping young girls.
Her mother took the advice and moved to Kuwait. There, the woman I met in the hospital eventually met a Kuwaiti widower with three children. They married and had several children together, the youngest of whom was five when I met this beautiful family.
Sadly, the woman from Homs was in the hospital for bone cancer, which had metastasized. She had refused amputation of her legs and was learning to use a walker. She may well have passed on by now. On hearing her story, I was heartbroken for her and her loved ones. And that is only one real life story.
That is all I have to say about Iran's targeting ISIL in Syria, if that is indeed what Iran did. But here, direct from Memory Lane, is an essay about Obama and Syria: https://caucus99percent.com/content/did-obama-draw-red-line-syrian-sand-...
Also from Memory Lane, Clinton praises Assad as a reformer, but later sings a different tune:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/04/09/smart-power-that-time...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rlvuACp3_I]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rrXn-PwwCw]
What a flustercuck!
The Empty Suit always amazes in his
hypocrisy...
Hell, that was his entire Middle Eastern foreign policy.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
More to come on this missile-tossing
Your essay is quite appropriate to the long but unstoppable run-up to the Irano-American war, gleefully co-sposored by Council on Foreign Relations, John Bolton, and Haliburton. The ultimate excuse, unless somebody does accelerate the process, is that clashes between Israeli and Syrian jets in Northern-Eastern Syria increase in number. Then will come the as yet conjectural declaration by "impartial Allied investigators" (spell that M-O-S-S-A-D) that there are gigaton Nuclear ballistic missiles hidden under the northern Syrian desert sand. Led on by Bibi, 4-10-20 will commence a shoot first and ask questions later campaign.
Just sending you a couple of links
that turned up via The Saker recently:
http://thesaker.is/the-big-sulk-the-us-is-the-spoiled-brat-at-every-party/ -- watch for comments by Cat Pillar
and
https://www.sott.net/article/363903-The-end-of-the-petrodollar-China-and...
No wonder war is being cooked up.
Syria: Change your constitution or else
No words ...
Syria could face tough sanctions if it blocks political process: U.S. diplomat
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
It’s the European Union that’s the flopping cadaver
What used to be the Left in Europe now has no ideas and no vision. Nothing to offer ordinary people not on the transnational gravy train except mockery and abandonment of their national identities in favor of faith in faceless, globalizing, neoliberal, authoritarian Brussels.
Right now, if there is any revolutionary energy in Europe it would seem to all be on the side of nationalists and populists who want to reclaim sovereignty and identity for non-migrant citizens.
If we could only
get our own Constitution returned to us.
Ha! Fat chance.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
War it is.
The neocons are looking for any excuse to force a US/Iranian war. Both Obama and Trump have made an issue out of Iran's ballistic missiles even though they were not part of the original deal on the development of nuclear weapons.