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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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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
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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New York Times:
U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces — Suleimani was planning attacks on Americans across the region, leading to an airstrike in Baghdad, the Pentagon statement said. Iran's supreme leader called for vengeance. — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. …
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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 …
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Michael Doran / New York Times:
Trump's Ground Game Against Iran — The assassination of Qassim Suleimani is a seismic event in the Middle East. — Mr. Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served in the departments of State and Defense, and on the National Security Council.
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CBS News:
“There will be dead Americans” as a result of Iran general being killed, ex-CIA deputy director says — The targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani, one of Iran's top military leaders, has escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with Iran vowing revenge.
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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.
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Axios:
The U.S. takes a war footing against Iran after Soleimani strike — President Trump, after warning three days ago that Iran would pay “a very BIG PRICE,” authorized a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran's top general and second most powerful official, Qasem Soleimani.
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Marc Champion / Bloomberg:
Iran Options Appear Narrow as It Seeks to Avenge Slain General
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense
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William Watts / MarketWatch:
Strait of Hormuz, the world's biggest oil chokepoint, in focus as U.S.-Iran tensions flare
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Associated Press:
Trump says Iranian should have been ‘taken out’ years ago
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Trump: Only a ‘weak’ and ‘ineffective’ president would start a war with Iran
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Stanley McChrystal / Foreign Policy:
Iran's Deadly Puppet Master
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Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch:
Why oil could hit $80 even without a ‘full-blown’ U.S.-Iran war
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran strike demands a serious response from Democrats
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John Leicester / Associated Press:
‘A more dangerous world’: Iran killing triggers global alarm
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump just made his most consequential decision as president
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Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man
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New York Times:
Qassim Suleimani, Master of Iran's Intrigue, Built a Shiite Axis of Power in Mideast
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
America's enemies are calling Trump's bluffs
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The United States Is Now at War With Iran
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Calls the Ayatollah's Bluff
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Erielle Davidson / The Federalist:
Trump Derangement Prevents Media From Praising Trump For Iranian Terrorist Soleimani's Demise
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Steve Hayes / The Dispatch:
The Morning Dispatch: Qassem Suleimani Is Dead
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Senate impeachment trial in flux amid Mideast crisis — Congress opened for the new year Friday with President Donald Trump's impeachment trial deeply in flux and the crisis in the Middle East only adding to the uncertainty about how lawmakers will proceed.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Why Democrats say they might not vote to convict Trump
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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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Whitley Alexander / U.S. Representative Phil Roe, M.D.:
Congressman Roe: “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent East Tennessee.”
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Washington Post:
Trump to court Latinos in Miami as part of launch of evangelical group — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump's reelection campaign on Friday will launch a new coalition to court evangelicals at a Latino megachurch in Miami, part of an effort to shore up support among Latino evangelicals whose backing …
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump works to avoid evangelical defections in 2020
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FiveThirtyEight:
Our Poll Finds A Majority Of Americans Think The Evidence Supports Trump's Removal — After the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on Dec. 18, the president's fate is in the Senate's hands. The process for the trial still isn't clear, but there are signs that it will likely …
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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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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 …
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