That's a Shame: Explosions Rock Iranian Memorial Service for General Salami

[Bill]

https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/01...illed-n2168232

Explosions Rock Memorial Service for Iranian Terrorist Qasem Soleimani, Over 100 Killed
By streiff | 11:51 AM on January 03, 2024


Two explosions ripped through a crowd of terrorist sympathizers gathered for the memorial of the fourth anniversary of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani's assassination. According to Iranian state media, over 100 people were killed, and at least 140 were wounded.

If you recall, Soleimani was killed by a US drone strike as his entourage was leaving the Baghdad Airport (BREAKING: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Leader Qasem Soleimani, Other Pro-Iranian Leaders Taken Out in Strike Near U.S. Forces in Baghdad). President Trump ordered the attack and apparently surprised the Pentagon and State Department as least as much as it did Soleimani, perhaps more because Defense and State had time to reflect upon the events

This was a significant blow to the elite and secretive Quds force that supplied training, weapons, cash, and assistance to Iranian proxy groups from its center of gravity in the Middle East as far afield as Latin America.

It all started innocently enough, with people gathering at the Kernan Martyrs Cemetery in the southern Iranian city of Kernan to commemorate the Cuisinart-ing of one of the world's most prolific terrorists. There was the obligatory walking on the flag of the "Great Satan."

While the event was underway, two bombs went off about a half-mile from the grave site, blasting the column of participants.


What happens next is the big question. The search is underway for the scapegoat, with the US and Israel running neck and neck for the honors. I don't think sane people believe Joe Biden would authorize a bombing like this, given his reticence to retaliate for direct attacks on US military installations (Biden Waits Until a US Soldier Is Critically Injured to Authorize Retaliation Against Iranian Militias). There is no doubt that Israel could've carried out a low-tech/no-tech operation like this, which apparently involved two bags containing explosives left along the march route. Israel lifted a half-ton of highly classified files documenting Iran's nuclear weapons program from Tehran (Somehow Mossad Stole a Half-Ton of Iran's Nuclear Secrets and Netanyahu Is Showing Them on Television). It killed a prominent nuclear scientist in an escorted convoy (Mossad Whacks Top Iranian Nuclear Scientist, Joe Biden's Ability to Suck Up To Iran Hardest Hit). This would be child's play. And even though Israel will eventually be blamed, it isn't easy to see how this fits their modus operandi. In the attack on an Iranian-protected terrorist in Beirut yesterday

[OnPoint]

[Swany00]

they'll blame either the US or Israel for sure

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Swany00

they'll blame either the US or Israel for sure

Easier for them to blame Israel right now to justify escalating the fighting.

[Tikiman]

Would have liked to see a 2,000 pounder dropped right in the middle of the crowd. Get them all together and take them out with one shot.

[Datawiz]

Was that a spam attack?

[Aerovette]

I can say I am certain Obama was NOT pulling the strings on this one.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

Was that a spam attack?

They got their buns TOASTED !

[zeek]

The largest supporter of terrorism is bitching about a terrorist attack on them. I love it!

[Louie Detroit]

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[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Easier for them to blame Israel right now to justify escalating the fighting.

It was Israel for sure. Biden is too big a ***** to make a strike like that.

[Bill]

Damn, talk about, "doesn't play well with others." They can't even get along with people who ALSO hate Christians and hate America.


https://justthenews.com/world/middle...ft-dozens-dead

ISIS claims responsibility for blast at Soleimani grave site in Iran that killed 84


By Charlotte Hazard

Published: January 4, 2024 11:48am


ISIS on Thursday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in Iran at a memorial for slain Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani.

The attack left dozens dead and hundreds injured, the terror monitoring group SITE reports.

CNN reports that 84 people are dead and 284 injured.

This is the deadliest attack in Iran since the Iranian revolution.

Iranian President Ebhrahim Raisi said Israel is responsible for the explosions and warned the country would pay a "heavy price."

The Israeli Defense Forces told CNN it had "no comment" on the matter.

“It does look like a terrorist attack, the type of thing we’ve seen ISIS do in the past. And as far as we’re aware, that’s kind of I think our going assumption at the moment,” a U.S. official told the outlet.

[Torqaholic]

My money was on Taliban or Iraq. Those people kill each other for a hobby.