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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Airstrike in Iraq Against High-Level Iranian Military Officials  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Trump Administration conducted a deadly airstrike targeting Iranians and Iraqis at the Baghdad International Airport:
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Thinks Attacking Iran Will Get Him Reelected.  He's Wrong.  —  Beginning in 2011, and continuing through the next year, Donald Trump began obsessively predicting that President Obama would start a war with Iran in order to be reelected.  Trump stated it publicly, on at least a half-dozen occasions …
Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Four Years Ago, Trump Had No Clue Who Iran's Suleimani Was.  Now He May Have Kicked Off WWIII.  —  President Donald Trump makes a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 24, 2019.  —  Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
Ryan C. Brooks / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Strike Has Drawn A Sharp Line Between The Democrats Running For President  —  The Democratic presidential candidates have split into an anti-war camp, led by Bernie Sanders, and a set of more nuanced responses to the killing of a key Iranian official, a rare and sharp contrast inside …
Discussion: IJR and The Week
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
The Killing of Qassem Suleimani Is Tantamount to an Act of War  —  On orders from President Trump, the United States killed Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran's élite Quds Force and the mastermind of its military operations across the Middle East, in an overnight air strike at Baghdad's International Airport.
U.S. Embassy / U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Iraq:
Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020  —  Home الصفح ة الرئي سية |  Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020  —  Event: Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region …
Mohammad Ali Shabani / The Guardian:
Donald Trump's assassination of Qassem Suleimani will come back to haunt him  —  The Quds force leader had the status of national hero even among secular Iranians.  His death could act as a rallying cry  —  The US has assassinated Qassem Suleimani, the famed leader of Iran's Quds force …
Discussion: DNyuz
George Packer / The Atlantic:
Killing Soleimani Was Worse Than a Crime  —  There was a case for killing Major General Qassem Soleimani.  For two decades, as the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, he executed Iran's long game of strategic depth in the Middle East—arming and guiding proxy militias in Lebanon …
Wesley Clark / Washington Post:
Killing a top Iranian military leader was a whack-for-tat move  —  Soleimani was no stateless outlaw like Osama bin Laden.  This U.S. action sets us on a dangerous path of escalation.  —  Like the killing of Osama bin Laden, the strike on Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad …
Associated Press:
Trump says Iranian should have been ‘taken out’ years ago  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was ordered because he was “plotting to kill” many Americans.  —  In his first comments since the early Friday strike …
New York Times:
Iranian General Traveled With Impunity, Until U.S. Drones Found Him  —  President Trump's decision to kill General Suleimani was one that his predecessors had rejected, fearing it would lead to war.  —  WASHINGTON — One night in January 2007, American Special Operations commandos tracked …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran strike demands a serious response from Democrats  —  President Trump's decision to order the assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, a major escalation that could unleash all sorts of bloody and terrifying consequences, should prompt Democrats to do two things without delay.
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Soleimani posted memes antagonizing Trump on social media  —  Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq early Friday, wasn't just an infamous terrorist organizer and one of the regime's most powerful officials — he was also one of President Trump's social media antagonists.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos
Ray Takeyh / Politico:
Why the Death of an Iranian Commander Won't Mean World War III  —  After years of striding across the Middle East seemingly in command of the region, General Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds Brigade, was finally killed by American airstrikes early Friday morning.
Marc Champion / Bloomberg:
Iran Options Seem Narrow as It Seeks to Avenge Slain General
Discussion: DNyuz
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense
Axios:
The U.S. takes a war footing against Iran after Soleimani strike
Suzanne Maloney / Washington Post:   Iran knows how to bide its time. Don't expect immediate retaliation for Soleimani.
New York Times:
U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces
Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
U.S. To Deploy Thousands of Troops to Middle East Following Soleimani Strike
William Watts / MarketWatch:
Strait of Hormuz, the world's biggest oil chokepoint, in focus as U.S.-Iran tensions flare
Discussion: UPI
New York Times:
Qassim Suleimani, Master of Iran's Intrigue, Built a Shiite Axis of Power in Mideast
CNN:
Top Democratic leaders kept in dark about Soleimani attack
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump just made his most consequential decision as president
Discussion: VICE, Politico, Breitbart and The Hill
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The United States Is Now at War With Iran
Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News:
Ex-Fox News reporter Courtney Friel claims Donald Trump invited her to Trump Tower to ‘kiss’  —  Former Fox News reporter Courtney Friel says Donald Trump called her with a creepy come-on before he became president — while they were both married.  —  Friel, who sometimes worked as a fill …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Week and HuffPost
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Fox News reporter says Trump invited her to his office ‘so we can kiss’  —  Courtney Friel claims in her upcoming book that the proposition was made during a phone call before he became president  —  A Fox News reporter has added her name to the list of nearly two dozen women …
Discussion: Mediaite
Preston Ayres / WCYB:
Roe Retiring: Congressman won't seek another term  —  Tennessee Congressman Phil Roe is not running for re-election.  The six-term Republican announced Friday morning he will not seek a seventh term in 2020.  Roe was first elected to Congress in 2008 by defeating incumbent David Davis in the Republican primary.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Why Democrats say they might not vote to convict Trump  —  Senate Democrats are expected to almost unanimously declare President Donald Trump guilty at the end of his impeachment trial.  But senators across the party's spectrum insist they haven't made up their mind.
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Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
United Methodist Church is expected to split over gay marriage, fracturing the nation's third-largest denomination  —  Church leaders said Friday they had agreed to spin off a “traditionalist Methodist” denomination, and allow the remainder of the denomination to permit same-sex marriage …
 
 
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