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Foreign Affairs / Re: Evidence Suggests US Lied About Iranian Strikes On US Facilities In Iraq by AlBaqir(m): 6:21am On Jan 17, 2020
timesup234:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-rocket-attack-on-iraqi-military-base-injured-11-us-service-members-official-reveals

Little by little the truth will be known. Americans are the greatest liars. At least 50 soldiers were killed

I tell you brother, if fox news says black, it is actually white. Their 11 injured revelation means a lot.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Evidence Suggests US Lied About Iranian Strikes On US Facilities In Iraq by AlBaqir(m): 5:51am On Jan 17, 2020
BBBmall25:
I Don't Understand The Lying U're Talking About Here Op, Or Are U One Of The Terrorist Iranian?

I see you are obviously related to Trump in foolishness and daftness.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Evidence Suggests US Lied About Iranian Strikes On US Facilities In Iraq by AlBaqir(m): 5:42am On Jan 17, 2020
Indeed, AFP recently released an exclusive report in which a US drone operator present at the Ain al-Asad Airbase, one First Sergeant Wesley Kilpatrick, admitted that airborne drones were rendered inoperable after a direct hit penetrated the base’s UAV operations center and destroyed the fiber lines which connect remote stations to satellite communication equipment(needed for drone control and visuals).

In all of this, one thing is obvious. US officials and media are stumbling over their own statements trying to cover up the extent of the damage dealt to the US-operated section of the Ain al-Asad base – in fact, going so far to cease calling the military site a US airbase (as it had been called for the last 16 years) to (all of a sudden) just an “Iraqi facility”.


THE WEAPONS USED BY IRAN

Short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) of the upgraded Fateh-313 (range 500 km) and Qiam (range 800 km) types were launched from Western Iran towards the US-operated Ain al-Asad Base in Iraq.

Fateh-313s represent the majority of the missile type used for the attack. Their accuracy still seems to have been to within a matter of meters of their intended targets, except for two stray shots that hit the open tarmac area.


Whilst the Fateh-313 missiles use a combination of INS and electro-optical guidance, the Qiam missiles reportedly use a mix of INS, GPS and radar-mapping target acquisition. The latter method being the archaic predecessor version of DSMAC (imaging automatic target acquisition) terminal-phase guidance used in high-end ground-attack cruise missiles, such as the Tomahawk.

THE OPERATION –OTHER DETAILS

Satellite pictures show that some targeted sites were double-tapped (hit twice-over for good measure).

Initial reports from the Ain al-Asad Base claimed nearly 40 detonations in total despite the fact the number of actual warhead impacts was about fifteen, indicating that there were around two dozen cases of secondary explosions (fuel and ammo going off after being ignited).

In conclusion, according to the evidence we have available to us currently, there is no doubt that the United States has completely distorted the gravitude of Iran’s strikes. The mainstream media in the West have also seemingly refrained from acknowledging much of the damage, apart from on occasion.



(The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/16/616360/Iran-attack-US-base-ain-al-asad-Iraq-soleimani-

Foreign Affairs / Re: Evidence Suggests US Lied About Iranian Strikes On US Facilities In Iraq by AlBaqir(m): 5:34am On Jan 17, 2020
They are the standard steel-frame soft shelter design for US helicopter units based in overseas areas at second-rate airfields (such as the Ain al-Asad Base) – US helicopter units operating from old Afghan airfields are also housed in this kind of shelter design. Each one of those Apache attack helicopter shelters can house two such aircraft. With six structures of the type provably destroyed, demonstrated through the satellite images showing blackened scorch marks (suggesting assets inside them were destroyed with the shelter itself, refer to Picture 1) AND assuming each only had one Apache in them, it can be concluded that at least 6 Apache gunships were destroyed in the attack.

Recently, Danish media, citing a Danish coalition soldier who was present at the base at the time of the attack, admitted that multiple helicopters were destroyed to the point of being “split in half”.

Another Apache hangar (refer to Picture 2) was also directly struck, located to the far eastern end of the Ain al-Asad Base and destroyed. However, note that there is no scorch-blackened concrete underneath it, suggesting nothing was inside it that led to additional burning beyond the impact of the warhead itself.


Indeed, just to the south of that destroyed hangar and the undamaged three hangars next to it, 4 Apache helicopters can be seen sitting out on the open tarmac. They were spared as they were, ironically, not being sheltered.

The official US story on the other structure targeted beyond the “tents” (i.e. Apache gunship hangars) has already changed twice – first it was called a parking lot, then an equipment storage area and now, apparently, a barracks for drone operators. Picture 1 (far right) shows the result of the attack on this structure.

It is hard to imagine that base zoning regulators within the US military would chose to place sleeping quarters right next to a strip alert (ready-to-go) aircraft parking area, itself right next to a major taxiway, given the constant noise that comes from these areas.

A more astute assessment would place this structure as an operations center, which lines up with the Iranian claim that the command site from which the Qassem Soleimani assassination operation had been coordinated, was targeted and destroyed in Iran’s retaliation strike.

Foreign Affairs / Evidence Suggests US Lied About Iranian Strikes On US Facilities In Iraq by AlBaqir(m): 5:32am On Jan 17, 2020
Evidence suggests US lied about Iranian strikes on US facilities in Iraq

By Robert Inlakesh

Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer and political analyst, who has lived in and reported from the occupied Palestinian West Bank. He has written for publications such as Mint Press, Mondoweiss, MEMO, and various other outlets. He specializes in analysis of the Middle East, in particular Palestine-Israel. He also works for Press TV as a European correspondent.



During the early morning hours of January 8, 2020, Iranian strategic missile units launched a precision attack, branded ‘Operation Martyr Soleimani’, against US forces at the American-operated section of the ‘Ain al-Asad’ air base in Iraq.

The response, coming in response to the illegal assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, was a high-observable attack using ballistic missile forces - as opposed to a low-observable attack using terrain-reading cruise missiles and suicide drones.

With US forces already having been in a heightened state of alert, American radar and satellite reconnaissance would have spotted the attack within a minute of it being launched (and a six hour pre-warning of an imminent attack before that), giving the US and other coalition troops present at the base time to seek cover in hardened shelter areas. This, however, did not prevent the success of the attack which, according to primary source evidence, destroyed highly-expensive US aviation assets.

THE RESULT - U.S. FORCES ASSET LOSSES

According to the evidence that has been made available to us at this point, it is obvious that the US is lying about the extent of the damage inflicted upon its assets and infrastructure at the Ain al-Asad base.

No American media group or official Pentagon report initially released the satellite pictures shown in this report, and probably for good reason. To downplay the event (as Trump did in his official address, as did the Pentagon in its later report), they simply dismissed the damaged equipment, referring to the destroyed assets as simple "tents, a parking lot and a damaged helicopter" (per the Department of Defense).

The Iranian missile attack for the most part targeted Apache (AH-64) attack helicopter shelters (refer to Picture 1). Refer to Picture 3 and Picture 4 to see what those “tent”-like Apache steel-frame shelters look like at ground level.

Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752? Iran Shot It Down But... by AlBaqir(m): 4:31am On Jan 17, 2020
Blackeuropean:
Who wrote these jargons and bullcraps? Please there are news that are not worth posting, this is total crap.

Incompetent Iranian SAM operator made a panic error and nothing jamming of equipment got to do with it.

When Iran shut down U.S. Stealth Drone, U.S. did not jam the Iranian radar to prevent it from hitting their drone, now Iran shut down Ukrainian Airline, inside Iran Airspace and this now turns to jamming?

All these conspiracy theories by does who do not know how SAMs work, Please let me trade Asian Sections in peace without having to read all these annoying jarhons.

grin grin While the world are switching warfare into cyberspace war, Naija is still in the mentality of stone age.

Save your breathe. I pray the U.S. and her allies do not temper with the result of analysis of the black box. Truth will eventually be out.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752? Iran Shot It Down But... by AlBaqir(m): 11:14pm On Jan 16, 2020
Dr. Iman Khosravi's (postdoctoral degree in Remote Sensing Engineering, University of Tehran) notes on the technical investigation of the possibilities of the Ukrainian Boeing crash:

In the Name of God the Most Merciful

While condoling the dear families of those lost, as a former soldier in the Army air defense and a post-doctoral mapping-remote sensing engineer, I will make a few points in simple scientific terms in this regard:

From the perspective of military experience:

1. Iran's air defence is one of the safest, most precise and accurate air defences in the world. When, in the summer of 2014, Iranian air defence struck an Israeli stealth drone (Hermes) above Natanz, or when in this very summer of 2019, it struck a stealth drone (Global Hawk) in the south of the country while not hitting the airplane next to it carrying American troops, which it identified, the precision of our country's air defence was highlighted.

From the perspective of mapping and remote sensing (scientific):

2. Every moving thing or 'bird' has a navigation system (GNSS). What does that mean? Simply put, it means it has a positioning system. For what? To justify (find) its position in space along its intended path every moment.

3. The makers of most ‘birds’, drones, airplanes and remote-sensing and other satellites, justify them based on the Global Positioning System (WGS).

4. GPS satellites are one way of tracking or positioning for these ‘birds'. That is, codes are constantly exchanged between the ‘bird’ and the GPS stations to justify (find) the bird's position along the route.

5. Who is in control of these GPS satellites? NASA. Which means where? The Space Agency of the United States of America. What that means is that this Agency has easy access to all the paths of the 'birds'. It can easily track their positions! And can even easily change their positions! How? As follows: While sending a code the GPS receiver is switched off for some moments or wrong codes are sent to the 'bird', so that the 'bird' errs in identifying its position. An example of this is when America attacked Iraq in the time of Saddam. In the first days of the war, the United States cut off all communications, including radio and telecommunications, between the Iraqi border and central bases, through its GPS navigation system. The central bases thought that the border bases had fallen and the border bases thought that something had happened to the central bases. This was one of the most important reasons for the falling of Saddam's Iraq.

6. Because of the above, most countries, especially Iran, have tried since several years to adopt a domestic positioning system which is independent from GPS, at least for their military 'birds' and missiles (imagine a missile, using the Global Positioning System, is fired from a place to a target - by tampering with its position its course can be changed or even redirected to its origin!) Initially, they wanted to use the positioning system of other countries like Russia, which is the main competitor to America, (the Glonas Positioning System), but the same problem could have arisen, because the system would not be in our own hands. For this reason the domestic positioning system was taken seriously and achieved significant success, such that in the war with ISIS the Russians were desperately seeking to use our drone technology. Because our drones were such that they were tracking the American drones while they were not aware of our drones. Also, perhaps one of the reasons that our missiles were not tracked by US air defences was because of the same domestic positioning system of our missiles.

7. Where is the Boeing plane made? The United States of America. And its positioning system is also based on the global position taken from GPS.

Now let's return to the incident in question:

8. There is one suspicious point in this event. And that is that they all admit that the plane, shortly after taking off from Imam Khomeini airport, was going in the direction of Ukraine, when it suddenly turned towards the airport itself and, according to the General Staff, took on a position of attack towards one of the Sepah military centers. This is what caused the air defence to fire a missile at the target (to be noted by those who operate air defences based on radar screens).

9. Based on all of the above, it is not far-fetched that the aircraft's navigation system may have been tampered with by the US in order to shift the aircraft's position towards an Iranian military site and result in what happened. (For example, recall the striking of the Boeing airplanes with the Twin Towers on the 11th of September 2001, which later became clear that the aircraft did not have a pilot and hit the towers automatically). What that means is that in addition to these 170 dear passengers, a military base and more people would have been martyred. (I recommend that Iran completely bans Boeing from our sky and airports)...

10. That the US itself (the President of the United States) was the first country to comment on this and say that the work was undoubtedly that of the Iranian Armed Forces itself, makes our suspicion more likely. That is, they had already planned for this task from before and wanted to make a huge military and humanitarian blow to our country without the least military cost (without the use of their weapons and planes). They wanted, in any case, to damage Iran and Iran's image - if the plane had hit the target that would have been a victory for them (because it had been done by an American Boeing plane and America would have been proud of itself for that), and now that it did not hit and Iran struck it down, Iran's image will get ruined. From the criminal America we know, such a crime does not seem far-fetched.

11. Ultimately, we must wait for the plane black box, so that the real reason can be better understood.

And the end is better for the pious

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Foreign Affairs / Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752? Iran Shot It Down But... by AlBaqir(m): 11:11pm On Jan 16, 2020
Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752? Iran Shot It Down But There May Be More to the Story

written by philip giraldi


The claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a “terrorist” on a mission to carry out an “imminent” attack that would kill hundreds of Americans turned out to be a lie, so why should one believe anything else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq? To be sure, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 departing from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on the morning of January 8th with 176 passengers and crew on board was shot down by Iranian air defenses, something which the government of the Islamic Republic has admitted, but there just might be considerably more to the story involving cyberwarfare carried out by the US and possibly Israeli governments.

To be sure, the Iranian air defenses were on high alert fearing an American attack in the wake of the US government’s assassination of Soleimani on January 3rd followed by a missile strike from Iran directed against two US bases in Iraq. In spite of the tension and the escalation, the Iranian government did not shut down the country’s airspace. Civilian passenger flights were still departing and arriving in Tehran, almost certainly an error in judgment on the part of the airport authorities. Inexplicably, civilian aircraft continued to take off and land even after Flight 752 was shot down.

Fifty-seven of the passengers on the flight were Canadians of Iranian descent, leading Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to point the finger both at the Iranian government for its carelessness and also at Washington, observing angrily that the Trump Administration had deliberately and recklessly sought to “escalate tensions” with Iran through an attack near Baghdad Airport, heedless of the impact on travelers and other civilians in the region.

What seems to have been a case of bad judgements and human error does, however, include some elements that have yet to be explained. The Iranian missile operator reportedly experienced considerable “jamming” and the planes transponder switched off and stopped transmitting several minutes before the missiles were launched. There were also problems with the communication network of the air defense command, which may have been related.

The electronic jamming coming from an unknown source meant that the air defense system was placed on manual operation, relying on human intervention to launch. The human role meant that an operator had to make a quick judgment in a pressure situation in which he had only moments to react. The shutdown of the transponder, which would have automatically signaled to the operator and Tor electronics that the plane was civilian, instead automatically indicated that it was hostile. The operator, having been particularly briefed on the possibility of incoming American cruise missiles, then fired.

The two missiles that brought the plane down came from a Russian-made system designated SA-15 by NATO and called Tor by the Russians. Its eight missiles are normally mounted on a tracked vehicle. The system includes both radar to detect and track targets as well as an independent launch system, which includes an Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system functionality capable of reading call signs and transponder signals to prevent accidents. Given what happened on that morning in Tehran, it is plausible to assume that something or someone deliberately interfered with both the Iranian air defenses and with the transponder on the airplane, possibly as part of an attempt to create an aviation accident that would be attributed to the Iranian government.

The SA-15 Tor defense system used by Iran has one major vulnerability. It can be hacked or "spoofed," permitting an intruder to impersonate a legitimate user and take control. The United States Navy and Air Force reportedly have developed technologies “that can fool enemy radar systems with false and deceptively moving targets." Fooling the system also means fooling the operator. The Guardian has also reported independently how the United States military has long been developing systems that can from a distance alter the electronics and targeting of Iran’s available missiles.

The same technology can, of course, be used to alter or even mask the transponder on a civilian airliner in such a fashion as to send false information about identity and location. The United States has the cyber and electronic warfare capability to both jam and alter signals relating to both airliner transponders and to the Iranian air defenses. Israel presumably has the same ability. Joe Quinn at Sott.net also notes an interested back story to those photos and video footage that have appeared in the New York Times and elsewhere showing the Iranian missile launch, the impact with the plane and the remains after the crash, to include the missile remains. They appeared on January 9th, in an Instagram account called 'Rich Kids of Tehran'. Quinn asks how the Rich Kids happened to be in “a low-income housing estate on the city's outskirts [near the airport] at 6 a.m. on the morning of January 8th with cameras pointed at the right part of the sky in time to capture a missile hitting a Ukrainian passenger plane…?”

Put together the Rich Kids and the possibility of electronic warfare and it all suggests a premeditated and carefully planned event of which the Soleimani assassination was only a part. There have been riots in Iran subsequent to the shooting down of the plane, blaming the government for its ineptitude. Some of the people in the street are clearly calling for the goal long sought by the United States and Israel, i.e. “regime change.” If nothing else, Iran, which was widely seen as the victim in the killing of Soleimani, is being depicted in much of the international media as little more than another unprincipled actor with blood on its hands. There is much still to explain about the downing of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752.

Reprinted with permission from American Herald Tribune.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/january/16/who-targeted-ukraine-airlines-flight-752-iran-shot-it-down-but-there-may-be-more-to-the-story/?fbclid=IwAR27b0eEHG05gvl6bv9icNY-pBBPpqCvDLdRar-_Jk4wXjbx9cR94NrVUVM
Islam for Muslims / Re: Islam For Muslims: Side Talk Station by AlBaqir(m): 7:19pm On Jan 11, 2020
Empiree:
I swear you make no sense. Recent incident has clear the air. It is as clear as daylight now who's creating terrorists.

Iranian general Sulaimani (Muslim) obliterated isisi terrorists but Donald Trump (CHRISTIAN) murdered by Sulaimani but many of you clapped for Trump. To make matter worse, RCCG father and son (Adeboyes) throw their support for Trump for mudering a man who eradicated isis. This is why Nigerian govt is afraid to obliterate BH bcus US govt will come after them for killing their boys.

It is clear now. We get it. The people that are creating problems in the world today are judeo-CHRISTIAN terrorists alliance.

Below is what this ISIS Christian terrorists are saying:

TRUMP'S KILLING OF IRANIAN GENERAL SOLEIMANI WAS BIBLICALLY JUSTIFIED, SAYS FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-killing-iranian-general-soleimani-was-biblically-justified-says-family-research-council-1481593

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Foreign Affairs / Re: See The Destruction At Iraqi Air Base Targeted By Iran by AlBaqir(m): 7:14pm On Jan 11, 2020
GamalNasser:


It was all part of a grand plan to descalate thaty why the Iranians informed the Iraqi govt knowing the Americans would be listening ..even Trump first tweet after it happened was " ALL IS WELL" ... Classic case of diplomatic de-escalation , the Americans had to give Iranian govt a leeway to save face , if not for the foolish downing if the passenger jet it was very successful

Really the passenger jet downing was unfortunate and unforgivable mistake. I blame their aviation industry for not suspend flight temporarily amidst the tension.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: See The Destruction At Iraqi Air Base Targeted By Iran by AlBaqir(m): 7:06pm On Jan 11, 2020
GamalNasser:


They allowed so just to deescalate the situation , they knew the missiles were coming so could have taken them out

Iran simply avoid casualties.

Foreign Affairs / See The Destruction At Iraqi Air Base Targeted By Iran by AlBaqir(m): 6:10pm On Jan 11, 2020
CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon is the first western journalist granted access to Al-Asad air base in Baghdad.Source: CNN



https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/01/11/al-asad-air-base-destruction-exclusive-damon-newday-vpx.cnn
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Says It ‘unintentionally’ Shot Down Ukrainian Jetliner by AlBaqir(m): 10:42am On Jan 11, 2020
charliboy654:

So are u expecting us to praise Iran because US has done same mistake 32 yrs ago

Absolutely No. I ONLY want to expose your hypocrisy by condemning one and praising the other.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Mistakenly Shot Down Ukraine Jet - US Media by AlBaqir(m): 7:38am On Jan 11, 2020
mvem:
Iran just admitted they shot the plane in error

Exactly. It is sad and unforgivable that Iranian aviation industry was not shut down amidst the tension. During war time, innocent suffer.
Islam for Muslims / Re: Could This Be A Step Towards "Muslim Unity"? by AlBaqir(m): 7:31am On Jan 11, 2020
For those who had been paying closer attention, there were in fact plenty of reasons to believe that the Saudi royal court would respond cautiously to Soleimani’s murder. There were also reasons for them to doubt Trump as an ally. America’s supposedly state-of-the-art defence systems didn’t detect the recent drone strike on Saudi oil facilities. Adding insult to injury, Trump ordered the return of American planes that had been en route to Iran for a retaliatory strike.

This led to a big rethink in Riyadh. Iran might have no navy or air force to write home about, but it does have more missiles than any other country in the region. The attacks on the US air bases in Iraq on Wednesday, and the earlier Saudi strikes, prove it knows how to use them. The damage to the Saudi oil industry if war breaks out, then, would be immense. Riyadh had to ask: if this were to happen, how certain could they be that Trump would come to their aid? It goes without saying that the bold Saudi drive to diversify their economy would come crashing down with the oil installations and water desalination plants. And Bin Salman could also kiss goodbye to the dream of mass tourism. No one but YouTube weirdos would want to visit a war zone.


More to the point, after losing faith in Trump — and seeing what the Iranian military was capable of — the Saudis had decided to talk. Extensive back-channel negotiations had been taking place to ease tensions with Tehran as well as with the Houthis in Yemen. In recent months, the Saudis and Iranians had been using intermediaries in Oman, Kuwait and Pakistan, and reconciliation talks were speeding up. The Iraqi Prime Minister has said that when Soleimani was killed, the general was not planning attacks on American soldiers (as the Pentagon claims) but was on his way to a meeting in Baghdad to discuss how to speed up Saudi-Iran peace talks.

Perhaps no one in Washington realised how quickly things were moving. Or perhaps they did, and killing Soleimani was an effort to stop that rapprochement taking place. Either way, the Saudis had every right to be angry, and after Trump met the Saudi delegation at the Oval Office this week unusually a transcript of the meeting was not released.

The behaviour of Washington since the strike will have underlined every Saudi fear about Trump’s reliability. The US military released a letter declaring it would withdraw from Iraq (as per its parliament’s recent instruction) but the Pentagon said it had been released in error. Trump then tweeted that he could hit Iran’s cultural sites, only to be contradicted by his Defence Secretary.


Just after Iranian missiles were fired at a US base in Iraq this week, an Iranian presidential adviser tweeted that Saudi Arabia could have ‘total peace’. It is not inconceivable that we will see closer ties being forged in the coming years between Iran and Saudi Arabia than between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Washington hawks will not be pleased, but it would be an easier — and perhaps more dependable — option for Riyadh. After all, ordinary Arabs have long considered Israel, not Iran, to be their main enemy.

What is certain is that Iran is now far more united. Its economy shrank by about 10 per cent last year, taken in Washington as proof that sanctions were working. The mullahs were in trouble and badly needed a cause to rally the nation behind. Soleimani’s assassination has given them one. The demonstrations in Iran over fuel price hikes a few months ago already seem like a thing of the past; those who had been on the streets protesting against the government have now turned out in its support. The crowd that marched in Tehran on Monday — chanting ‘Death to America’ — was one of the largest ever seen in the capital.

‘All is well!’ chirped Trump after the Iranian retaliation, signalling that he now sees this episode as at an end. Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, offered his own verdict: that we have just witnessed the beginning of the end of the ‘malign US presence in West Asia’. For Trump, it will be an awkward point. He set out to weaken Iran and its control over the Middle East — but may have ended up handing the region to the mullahs on a platter.

SPECTATOR.CO.UK/PODCAST Former ambassador to Riyadh Sir John Jenkins and Oz Katerji on the Iranian crisis.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/donald-trump-has-just-blown-up-his-goal-of-isolating-iran/

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Islam for Muslims / Could This Be A Step Towards "Muslim Unity"? by AlBaqir(m): 7:29am On Jan 11, 2020
Donald Trump has just blown up his goal of isolating Iran

The unified Sunni Arab response to Soleimani’s killing is not what Washington envisaged
John R. Bradley


A blood-red flag was raised over the Jamkaran mosque in the Iranian holy city of Qom last week, one normally reserved to commemorate the death of martyrs. This time, it was intended as a call to arms. ‘We have unfurled this flag so that all [Shia] believers in the world gather around it to avenge Qassem Soleimani’s blood unjustly shed,’ said the mosque’s leader. In Tehran, there were calls for bloody retribution for the air strike that killed Iranian general Soleimani — and everywhere, talk of all-out war. If it was also intended to strike the fear of Allah into the hearts of Iran’s Sunni Arab enemies, it certainly succeeded.

In Riyadh, there was panic. The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, hastily sent an anti-war delegation to Washington and London. At home, his officials emphasised that the kingdom had not been consulted beforehand about the drone strike. ‘Please don’t blame us,’ was the message to Tehran. The Emirati foreign minister likewise called for restraint, warning of the devastating consequences for the Persian Gulf if war between the US and Iran were to break out.


The foreign minister of the UAE’s arch rival Qatar, home to a US air base that would be a crucial launching pad for any American war against Iran, went one step further. He visited Tehran, met with President Hassan Rouhani and offered his condolences. ‘Qatar understands the deep pain and sadness that the Iranian people and government are enduring,’ he said.

This unified Sunni Arab response to Soleimani’s murder is hardly what Washington had envisaged. After all, from the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump’s Middle East strategy — orchestrated by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner — was aimed at fomenting an alliance between Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arab states (particularly Saudi Arabia and the Emirates) against Shia Iran.

The goal for the hawks Trump has surrounded himself with was to isolate Iran diplomatically, then to confront the country militarily on multiple fronts. To this end, Trump gave the Saudis a free pass at every juncture, even when Bin Salman had the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi chopped to pieces and his remains cooked in a tandoori oven.

Israel, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia had been flaunting their new intelligence co-operation and their united front against what they saw as the growing Iranian menace. They flirted with closer diplomatic and cultural ties; at one stage, the idea of an ‘Arab Nato’ was floated. Leaked documents reveal that the Saudis — like the Israelis — had previously been pushing Washington for a direct US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

So Trump could have been forgiven for thinking the Saudis would be elated at Soleimani’s demise. Instead, they and the Emiratis waved the white flag before a single shot was fired. As per Iran’s request: its military offered a truce with Arab states that distanced themselves from America. It said Sunni cities would only be directly targeted if they assisted any US response to its air strikes against US bases in Iraq (in which case Dubai would be the first city to be ‘destroyed’). At the same time, Israel and the US were considered by Iran ‘as one’.

General Jonathan Shaw, former commander of UK forces in Iraq, put it well: Iran’s objectives are political, not military. Their aim is not to destroy any American air base, but to drive a wedge between the US and its Arab allies — and the Soleimani assassination has achieved more to this end than anything that could have been cooked up in Tehran. The Sunnis are standing down and the US and Israel now once again face being without real friends in the region. When push came to shove, all Kushner’s efforts amounted to nothing. How elated the Iranians must be, even in the midst of such a setback.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Says It ‘unintentionally’ Shot Down Ukrainian Jetliner by AlBaqir(m): 6:57am On Jan 11, 2020
Validated:
Shame on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was busy shouting the missile launched was a ‘slap on the face’ for US but it was ‘not enough’ ... so, they now sacrificed 176 innocent lives. Funny, not one US citizen was hurt.

To say they have been denying this for past days makes it so painful. The UN should disarm Iran immediately because that is how they will "unintentionally" unleash nuclear arsenal on the region and be denying it.


It was sad and unforgivable that aviation industry was not shut down amidst the tension.

Your darling U.S. also denied for almost a month when she shot down Iranian airliner killing 290 on board, 60 of which were children.

War time, innocents suffer.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Mistakenly Shot Down Ukraine Jet - US Media by AlBaqir(m): 6:53am On Jan 11, 2020
21cents:
thank you!! same thing the Canadian PM was saying about some audio intelligence report that claimed iran downed the plane, we're talking human lives here and you didn't provide the Intel to nail Iran. I'm still holding my backlash against Iran tho, until investigations proved them as the culprit, and not jump on the bandwagon castigating Iran like a dumb fool just because US "believed" Iran shot it down!!

TBH, I'm ashamed at some so called "educated" individuals here whom can't use their sense in matters like this. you don't just jump into conclusion when investigations are still underway.


Iran has finally admitted to mistakenly shot down the plane. It is sad and unforgivable that aviation industry was not shut down amidst the tension. Lives are precious to be played with.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Mistakenly Shot Down Ukraine Jet - US Media by AlBaqir(m): 1:37pm On Jan 10, 2020
mvem:
what exactly have you shown now?...Iran don't have the technology to read a black box and it is widely known but you call that propaganda because it doesn't fit your narrative...The trump part and I don't even get how that fits my argument. It is now widely known with images from radar and other military Intelligence that Iran surface to air missile was responsible for hitting the plane which is very likely was made in error. It has happened in the past if you check history, no matter how advance your air missile defense system is error still occur . In 1988 US mistakenly brought down an Iranian commercial airline...in 1986 a Russian missile mistakenly brought down a South Korean airliner...even most recently in the Ukrainian war a Russian surface to air missile mistakenly brought down a dutch airliner and these are advanced defense systems...so what is your point ?

Iran doesn't have the capability to read the black box. Iran has invited experts from various countries into the investigation. Simple, but western media and foot soldiers like you have already concluded based on nothing.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Mistakenly Shot Down Ukraine Jet - US Media by AlBaqir(m): 12:21pm On Jan 10, 2020
mvem:
Only 5 countries are capable of reading a black box which Iran or Ukraine is not inclusive. I believed Radar actually took it up before the strike. Everything is not conspiracy, some years ago Russia mistakenly brought down a civilian south Korean plane( in the 90s). A foreign plane can actually make it close to Tehran before being intercepted by an anti air missile system, so you saying a jet will be intercepted before entry in Iranian airspace is actually an exaggeration . The Plane crashed few hours Iran sent missiles to Iraq. Iran later knew that US have scrambled jets from UAE and were on high alert. Systems fail a lot, the passenger plane would have been mistaken as a foreign threat. And please Iran has not invited US or France who are actually capable of reading the black box. obviously they won't invite US


Wise and intelligent people wait to see development of events and not join the bandwagon of serial liars and propagandists. Be wise.

Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Mistakenly Shot Down Ukraine Jet - US Media by AlBaqir(m): 10:33pm On Jan 09, 2020
mvem:
Not only US are saying It. It is very likely Iran did it in error. The plane was shot down when the tension was very high and was likely mistaken for a foreign fighter Jet. It was likely a big Mistake in the heat of things

@bold, and that makes it "true" grin grin

Who are those saying it? Bunch of cons U.S. allies who have not even see any investigative report. Please use your number six. It's another propaganda to distract attention.

A fighter jet doesn't move at the same frequency a civilian plane moves.

The plane took off from Iranian airport and it's still some miles away from Airport when the incident happened.

Even when Iran down U.S. so-called most sophisticated drone, several warning messages were sent before it was down. Should a Fighter jet of the enemy enters Iran territorial air, it will never allowed to reach Tehran before it is taken down.

Anyway, here's a news for you:


Iran
@Iran

#Iran Civil Aviation Chief at Televised speech:
We invite experts from countries of France (plane’s engine manufacturer), US (plane designer) Canada and Ukraine for cooperating with us... the Ukranian delegation arrived today in Tehran.
#UkrainianPlaneCrash
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Mistakenly Shot Down Ukraine Jet - US Media by AlBaqir(m): 8:42pm On Jan 09, 2020
The same US government that lied about Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and lest we forget, shot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing all 290 civilian passengers, including 66 kids, now wants to believe #Iran attacked Ukraine Flight 752? {Sarah AbdAllah]

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Foreign Affairs / Re: The US Government Lies Constantly by AlBaqir(m): 5:02am On Jan 06, 2020
BUT WHEN WILL DEAD BRAINS STOP BELIEVING ANYTHING SERIAL LIAR U.S GOVERNMENT SAYS?

Foreign Affairs / The US Government Lies Constantly by AlBaqir(m): 4:59am On Jan 06, 2020
The US Government Lies Constantly, And The Burden Of Proof Is On The Accuser

written by caitlin johnstonesunday january 5, 2020


Over the last 48 hours I’ve been splitting my free time between (A) learning as much as I possibly can about the US assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and (B) arguing with people online who are uncritically swallowing US government claims about why that assassination was necessary. I always engage such political debates because they’re a valuable source of information on what propaganda narratives people are buying into, and therefore which propaganda narratives need to be addressed.

What has been made abundantly clear from this particular engagement is that those who have bought into the Trump administration’s completely unsubstantiated claims about Soleimani are sincerely unaware that they have unquestioningly bought into unsubstantiated US government narratives. People tend to get their information from tightly insulated echo chambers, and if you inhabit an echo chamber that supports the current president all you’ll get is a bunch of officials, pundits and reporters saying in a confident-sounding tone of voice that Soleimani needed to be taken out. Since they’re surrounded by chatter affirming that Soleimani had attacked America and/or posed an imminent threat in the near future, they assume that chatter must be based on some actual facts in evidence.

It is not.


http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/january/05/the-us-government-lies-constantly-and-the-burden-of-proof-is-on-the-accuser/?fbclid=IwAR38O7n-NA67wHsED9RCEgqgOH-kgj8GWuZc2i2maFtBZdNSX9Djx1Z3Jsk

Islam for Muslims / Re: The Purpose And Aim Of Creating The Human Being by AlBaqir(m): 6:46pm On Sep 19, 2019
Excellent
Islam for Muslims / Re: Ashura:Devout Shia Muslims using knives to cut open their heads (Graphic Images) by AlBaqir(m): 10:33am On Sep 12, 2019
TATBIR AND ZANJEER IS HARAM - FORBIDDEN

Surah Al-Hujraat, Verse 6:

O you who believe! if an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it, lest you harm a people in ignorance, then be sorry for what you have done."


# For a fact, tatbir (body flagellation) is Haram according to the Fatawa of all Shia leading scholars (dead or alive). For example,  here's the fatwa of Ayatullah Ali Khameini:


{ Q. Is hitting oneself with swords ḥalāl if it is done in secret? Or is your fatwā in this regard universal?

A: In addition to the fact that it is not held in the common view as manifestations of mourning and grief and it has no precedent at the lifetime of the Imams (a.s.) and even after that and we have not received any tradition quoted from the Infallibles (a.s.) about any support for this act, be it privately or publicly, this practice would, at the present time, give others a bad image of our school of thought. Therefore, there is no way that it can be considered permissibe
}
https://www.leader.ir/en/content/21984/Performing-tat%CC%A3b%C4%ABr-(qamazan%C4%AB)-secretly


# A website is dedicated to educate people on the history and Shia scholar's fatawa on tatbir declaring it HARAM (FORBIDDEN): http://tatbir.org/

Furthermore, 41 Shia Fatawa from various Shi'a scholars were put together in the same website: http://tatbir.org/?page_id=98

Shia mainstream knew tatbir to be haram and refrain from it, leaving only the deviants who called themselves Shia. However, those who chose to cause fitnat will stoop so low hiding popular and majority view on tatbir but display extremist view and practices to misguide and poison people's mind just as western media do on Islam and Muslims.


# The fact that tatbir is haram, this is the reason some Shia Ulama advice to donate blood at the hospitals for those in need of it, rather than participating in the barbaric practice of tatbir and zanjeer where blood is wasted.


LAST SHOT

99% of the world terrorists from Boko haram to ISIS and al-Qaeda with their heinous crimes against humanity, ALL of them with no exception profess Ahlu Sunnah, Sunni form of Islam. And today, the western world media have "succeeded" in synchronizing Sunnism or Ahlu Sunnah to terrorism because of these extremists and bad egg. Is such generalization accepted by Islam?

Quran says:

Surah Al-Maeda, Verse 8:

"O you who believe! Be upright for Allah, bearers of witness with justice, and let not hatred of a people incite you not to act equitably; act equitably, that is nearer to piety, and he careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Aware of what you do."


Therefore, why would any rational human being and Muslim who believe in the above noble verse pack all the Shia together and ascribe such greousome and barbaric practice to them all?

Islam for Muslims / Re: ...... by AlBaqir(m): 4:30pm On Sep 08, 2019
Empiree:
You sure he lacked knowledge of tassawuf?

Maybe you should digest this a little.

I'm not interested in his biography. His tasawwuf methodology was very very wrong.

You guys on this platform need to read history of tasawwuf (irfan), its methodology and about past Arif. Only then you can have a glimpse (since none of you thread the path) of who is/was on that path and who has/had deviated.

The Offas, the fact that they dont have Alfas compare to the Ilorins, decided to promote Bulala to unreasonable level. That's my opinion anyway.

I am not a practical Arif but I studied irfan theoretically (note: theory of irfan was laid to bare by practical and experiential exercise of it. This was done by Ibn Arabi). The so-called sufis of Yorubaland are away too far from being true urafa/sufis (Gnostics).

Again, any Sufi that deviated from the simple practices of furu'u deen is/was fake Sufi. Shariat is the proper and true step to Tariqat, while the later leads to Haqiqat.
Islam for Muslims / Re: ...... by AlBaqir(m): 12:04pm On Sep 08, 2019
Empiree:
how does this relate?

You came with a defense that his madness behavior was incognito. And I ask for what? He aught to be following the best example.

This century's Sufi lack the theoretical knowledge of tasawwuf. All of them just go to practical and experiential part of it. It's like someone who is building a house without foundation and plan.

Sheik al-Akbar Muhydeen ibn Arabi al-Andalusi was the best Sufi of all time. He opened up entirely new dimensions and reached the maqam that no Sufi has ever reached. Yet, he was not "mad incognito".

What about Imam Ghazali, Imam AbdulQadri Gilani et al?
Islam for Muslims / Re: ...... by AlBaqir(m): 3:01am On Sep 08, 2019
Empiree:
he was incognito

For what?

Surah Al-Ahzab, Verse 21:

Certainly you have in the Apostle of Allah an excellent exemplar for him who hopes in Allah and the latter day and remembers Allah much.
Islam for Muslims / Re: ...... by AlBaqir(m): 5:28am On Sep 07, 2019
Empiree:
....

Then, why was he behaving like madman?
Islam for Muslims / Re: Friday Sermon: Fasting On The Day Of `ashura’ – The 10th Of Muharram by AlBaqir(m): 4:34am On Sep 07, 2019
EXPOSING THE MYTH OF ASHURA FASTING

1. Imam Muslim documents:

A'isha (r) reported that the Quraish used to fast on the day of 'Ashura in the pre-Islamic days and the Messenger of Allah (s) also observed it. When he migrated to Medina, he himself observed this fast and commanded (others) to observe it. But when fasting during the month of Ramadan was made obligatory he said: He who wishes to observe this fast may do so, and he who wishes to abandon it may do so"

Source: Sahih Muslim 1125 a
In-book reference  : Book 13, Hadith 143  http://www.sunnah.com/muslim/13/143

 
2. Imam Muslim documents:

Ibn Abbas (r) reported that when Allah's Messenger (s) came to Medina, he found the Jews observing the fast on the day of Ashura. They were asked about it and they said: It is the day on which Allah granted victory to Moses and Bani Isra'il over the Pharaoh and we observe fast out of gratitude to Him. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (s) said: We have a closer connection with Moses than you have, and he commanded to observe fast on this day."

Source: Sahih Muslim 1130 a
In-book reference  : Book 13, Hadith 162  http://www.sunnah.com/muslim/13/162


OBSERVATION:

# If we infer from the hadith of Umm al-Mumineen Aisha that Prophet had been observing Ashura fasting since his time in Makkah with the pagan Quraysh ever before his Prophethood, then this will grossly contradict the hadith of Ibn Abbas which showed the Prophet's naivety of Ashura fasting and its importance.



CONTRADICTORY HADITH THAT BLEW UP THE WHOLE STORY

Imam Muslim continues his documentation:


Ibn 'Abbas reported that when the Messenger of Allah (s) fasted on the day of 'Ashura and commanded that it should be observed as a fast, they (his Companions) said to him: Messenger of Allah, it is a day which the Jews and Christians hold in high esteem. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (s) said: When the next year comes, God willing, we would observe fast on the 9th But the Messenger of Allah (s) died before the advent of the next year"

Source: Sahih Muslim 1134 a
In-book reference  : Book 13, Hadith 172  http://www.sunnah.com/muslim/13/172


 This hadith which claimed Prophet died the following year he commanded the fasting of Ashura, clearly suggest he might have spent 2 - 3 years in al-Madinah. This  is contradictory to established facts of 10 years he spent in al-Madinah.

* If we however suggest that this command and complaint (of the companions) about Ashura fasting was on the 9th or 10th year of Hijra (migration to Madina) that the Prophet entered al-Madinah; therefore, he died the following year – 10th or 11th year,  then it render the previous ahadith of Aishah, Jabir et al useless since they claimed fasting of Ramadan (established in 2nd year) made fasting of Ashura abandoned or optional.

* There is absolutely no suggestion in this hadith that there was a time difference between the command of Ashura fasting and the complaint of the Sahabah. Even if we fabricate a gap period, the question is what made the complaint of the Sahabah and the Prophet’s realization so late for about 8 - 9 years?

 The fact that Allah has declared in the 1st or 2nd year of Prophet's arrival in al-Madinah:

"Never will the Jews and the Christians be satisfied with thee (Muhammad) unless you follow their form of religion. Say (O Muhammad)  'The guidance of God, that is the (only) Guidance.‟ Were you to follow their desires after the knowledge which has reached you, then you will neither find protector or helper against God” (Baqarah: 120)
 
So, neither the Prophet nor the Sahabah will be heedless of this verse. The valid conclusion is that both the command and complaint as expressed in the hadith took place in the 1 - 2nd year of Hijra. And the fact that the hadith later claim the Prophet died the following year collapse the whole pack of lies about the Tasu'a and Ashura fast.


ASHURA FASTING IS AN ABANDONED FASTING

Why would Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa ahli take the word of the Jew for legislation? Is there a record for it in their Torah that Prophet Musa fasted on Ashura?

"And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place; there shall no leavened bread be eaten. This day came ye out in the month of Abib."[Exodus 13: 3 - 4]

Apart from the fact that there is zero confirmation of this fasting in al-Furqan (The criterion, Quran) or a revelation to the Prophet to validate it despite the detailed account of Prophet Musa in the Quran, the month of Abib of the Jew had never synchronized with the Arab’s month of Muharram. Therefore, it is a myth or misinformation of the Jew to the Prophet that such fasting was being observed in Arab's month of Muharram, and it's called Ashura. Furthermore, Allah says concerning the Jews and their scripture:

"And indeed, there is among them a party who alter the Scripture with their tongues so you may think it is from the Scripture, but it is not from the Scripture.  And they say, “This is from Allah,” but it is not from Allah. And they speak untruth about Allah while they know "[Ahl-Imran: 78]

Apart from the fasting of Ramadan which apparently made fasting of Ashura an abandoned fast, Allah declares in the same surah al-Baqarah:

"Never will the Jews and the Christians be satisfied with thee (Muhammad) unless you follow their form of religion. Say (O Muhammad)  'The guidance of God, that is the (only) Guidance.‟ Were you to follow their desires after the knowledge which has reached you, then you will neither find protector or helper against God” [Baqarah: 120]


This cast a lots of doubts and arguments about the truthfulness of the fast of Tas’ua and Ashura.  So for the sake of argument, if at all the Prophet once fasted Ashura for what the Jews claimed, then this command (and the command of fasting of Ramadan) truly render this "Jewish practice" abandoned.

If because of the statement, "We have more claim over Moses than you”, fasting of Ashura was established, then why cant the Prophet also embrace the day Manna was sent from heaven as Eeed[*] after all Prophet Eesa is more closer to Islam than Christianity?

[*]: Sura al-Maidah: 112 - 114



COMMANDS OF THE QURAN

Quran further states in another early Madinan surah:

 "He it is Who sent His Apostle with the guidance and the true religion, that He may make it overcome the religions, all of them, though the polytheists may be averse”[sura Saf: 9]

Indeed fasting of Ashura, if truly the Prophet ever enjoined it, became an abandoned fasting so also is its purported virtues. Imam Bukhari documents the interpretation of "abandon " of Ashura fasting by a Sahabi:

Narrated Ibn `Umar:


The Prophet (s) observed the fast on the 10th of Muharram ('Ashura), and ordered (Muslims) to fast on that day, but when the fasting of the month of Ramadan was prescribed, the fasting of the 'Ashura' was abandoned. Abdullah did not use to fast on that day unless it coincided with his routine fasting by chance”.

Source: Sahih al-Bukhari 1892
In-book reference  : Book 30, Hadith 2 
http://www.sunnah.com/bukhari/30/2



We are therefore obliged to ask, why the yearly campaign of this abandoned practice? To revive an abandoned practice is nothing but heresy.
Islam for Muslims / Re: Keep Striving To Follow The Sunnah by AlBaqir(m): 11:42am On Sep 06, 2019
Empiree:
if we are to go this way, 95% of muslims would be guilty of this since 1000 years ago

They've been guilty already in many things innovated by the Caliphs. 3 talaq won't make difference.

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