Second anniversary of retaliatory Iranian airstrike on US airbase in Iraq

The attack, in retaliation for the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani by the United States, marks the first time any country has had the wherewithal to execute an attack of this magnitude on a US base.

On January 3 2020, the United States assassinated Iran's Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, as well as the deputy commander of Iraq's popular mobilization units, Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis, in a drone strike at the Baghdad International Airport.

The courage to strike: Operation Martyr Soleimani, two years on

January 8 marks the second anniversary of an Iranian airstrike on a US airbase in Iraq. The attack was in retaliation for the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani by the United States.

American democracy, complete sham

When American democracy is a complete sham, as it was under Trump, and it reached its apotheosis, you could say, with the assassination of a great anti ISIS fighter. ... really the main force that was fighting ISIS.

Eric Walberg, Writer and Political Analyst

Five days later, Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at the Ayn Al Asad airbase in Iraq housing US troops in retaliation for the assassination, leaving scores of casualties.

The Pentagon initially downplayed the number of troops injured in the strike, but later admitted that over 100 of its personnel suffered traumatic brain injuries. One died by suicide in October.

I think this is probably what Pompeo and Trump were counting on. They thought, oh, well, we'll kill this Soleimani and then maybe Iran will attack us and that will give us an excuse to go to war against Iran.

I'm sure that was their plan there but you didn't have that ... it's very wise when you're dealing with an enraged bull, you don't poke it, you go around it, you figure out where its weak spots are; you do that kind of strategizing.

Eric Walberg, Writer and Political Analyst

Gen Kenneth McKenzie: Iran possesses one of most capable militaries in the Middle East

Mackenzie testified before the US House Armed Services Committee that Iran

Iran strikes with accuracy and volume

This is what the head of the United States Central Command told The New Yorker about the airstrike on the Ayn al Asad airbase.

They hit pretty much where they wanted to hit.

They can strike effectively across the breadth and the depth of the Middle East.

They could strike with accuracy and they could strike with volume.

General Kenneth McKenzie, CENTCOM Head

US releases unseen footage of Iran’s missile attacks on Al-Assad

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has declassified the aerial surveillance footage of Al-Assad Air Base in Iraq during Iran’s 2020 ballistic missile attacks on that facility in retaliation for the US assassination of top Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani.

The General McKenzie has admitted Iran's missile capabilities have given the Islamic Republic of Iran overmatch, a military term, meaning a level of military prowess where a country can overwhelm the enemy by a significant margin.

Last August, the Taliban slipped to power in Afghanistan in a matter of weeks and seized control of the capital Kabul while the US troops were still present in the country.

No punishment for military personnel involved in deadly August 29 drone strike in Afghanistan: Pentagon

The US military has announced that it will not hold any of its personnel accountable for a deadly August drone strike that killed 10 civilians in Afghanistan.

Observers believe the United States withdrawal from the Central Asian country will go down in history as one of the most chaotic moves Washington has ever made.

But according to the most senior commander of Iran's Islamic revolution Guards Corps, the Americans will have to leave Iraq in a more humiliating manner than the way they left Afghanistan.

Iranian drones sanctioned while US drones kill innocent civilians

The US has passed a bill to restrict the proliferation of Iran’s military drones despite negotiations over the removal of anti-Iran sanctions taking place in the Austrian capital Vienna.

The commander of the IRGC Quds Force said the Americans are facing various problems in the region while the Resistance Front is advancing on a daily basis.

Brigadier General Esmail Qaani noted that the resistance fighters are now equipped with missiles and weapons that can target US warships anywhere in the region, reiterating that the Americans will inevitably be uprooted from the region.

He made the remarks at a ceremony in the Iranian city of Mashhad on the second anniversary of the US assassination of Iran's top general Qassem Soleimani and senior Iraqi PMU commander Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis.

Totally defeated, enemies are not safe in any territory, IRGC chief warns

IRGC Chief Commander Hossein Salami says there is no safe territory for the enemies anymore.

I don't know, you ask if the US has gotten the message well, sometimes people or nations are so foolish, that they go to such a point with their mistaken agenda that it just collapses completely.

So that's seems to be what's going to happen. I don't know when it will happen. But there seems to be very little possibility of a rational US government.

Eric Walberg, Writer and Political Analyst

Despite the repeated threats by the United States and its allies, Iran has proven its ability to make good on its promise to mete out a crushing response to any possible aggressor with overwhelming “accuracy and volume”.

IRGC releases footage of confronting US piracy targeting Iranian oil in Sea of Oman

The IRGC releases detailed footage of its confrontation late last month against an American act of piracy targeting an Iranian fuel shipment.

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