Several Iranian political and military officials issued warnings on Saturday over possible hostile movements against Iran, on the first anniversary of the killing of Commander Qassem Soleimani. New intelligence from Iraq indicates that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americans-putting an outgoing Trump in a bind with a fake casus belli, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on social media, as quoted by official news agency IRNA. Iran s chief diplomat called on the United States President Donald Trump to be careful of a trap. Major General Hossein Salami, commander in chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), also issued a warning against hostile action taken against Iran.
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[ Editor’s Note: The anniversary was bound to stir up the retribution fires over the US drone strike on the Soleimani team that flew to Baghdad for a meeting to discuss deescalating tensions in the Persian Gulf.
At the time, world media showed no interest in that aspect of the assassination. VT got the news quickly from the reporter who posted his notes on Twitter of the parliamentary conference held soon after, where Soleimani’s Iraqi hosts confirmed it was a diplomatic meeting.
Was the prospect of peace in the region the possible trigger for his elimination? VT has a long history of studying the ‘threats’ that unwanted peacemakers expose themselves to when challenging the endless war and chaos machine. Messing with their money making machine can get you killed.
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2021-01-01 16:35:33 GMT2021-01-02 00:35:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BAGHDAD, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) Iraq sent explosive experts to defuse a marine mine attached to a ship in the international Gulf waters about 51 km away from Iraq s oil ports, the military said Friday.
The marine mine was found on the side of the ship on Thursday afternoon when it was fuelling another ship, said a statement by the media office of the Joint Operations Command.
The explosive experts managed to evacuate the ship hired by Iraq s State Organization for Marketing of Oil, and is working to defuse the mine, the statement added, without giving more details.
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