Babylon the Great Threatens the Iranian horn

US Says Won’t Tolerate Attacks by Iran-backed Militias in Iraq

Asharq Al-Awsat

Thursday, 1 October, 2020 – 16:45

FILE PHOTO – People enter the State Department Building in Washington, US, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

The United States will not hesitate to act to protect its personnel in Iraq, where it considers Iranian-backed militias that have attacked US targets to be the country’s “single biggest problem,” a senior State Department official said on Thursday.

David Schenker, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, issued the warning when asked during a briefing about US threats to close its embassy in Baghdad.

He declined to comment on what he called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “private diplomatic conversations” but added, “We can’t tolerate the threats to our people, our men and women serving abroad.”

Schenker did not confirm or deny a reported US threat to withdraw its troops and close its embassy in Baghdad unless the attacks against them stop.

He also said the US will continue to impose sanctions on Lebanese individuals allied with Hezbollah or engaged in corruption.

Schenker told reporters that further sanctions remained in play even after Israel and Lebanon announced earlier on Thursday they had agreed on a framework for the coming negotiations on their maritime border dispute.

The Iranian and Iraqi horns unite over Soleimani’s assassination

Iran Urges Iraq’s Legal Action on Assassination of Gen. Soleimani – Politics news – Tasnim News Agency

Tasnim News Agency

In a meeting with Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, held in Tehran on Sunday, Shamkhani said Iran expects the Baghdad government to seriously pursue the cowardly move through international organizations.

Denouncing the American assassination of Lt. General Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis as a brazen example of state-sponsored terrorism, Shamkhani said the least punishment for such a grave crime is that those behind the plot must immediately get out of the region, specifically out of  Iraq.

For his part, Hussein praised Iran for supporting the Iraqi government and nation in the fight against Takfiri terrorism, stressing that no foreign party can undermine the close relations between the two neighbors.

In July, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned the United States that Iran will definitely reciprocate the assassination of Lt. General Soleimani.

In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Tehran, Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the Islamic Republic of Iran will never forget the American assassination of the top commander in Iraq and “it will definitely deal the reciprocal blow to Americans.”

On January 3, a US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport assassinated General Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. The attack — that also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) anti-terror group, along with several others — came while General Soleimani was on an official visit to the Iraqi capital.

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Imam Khamenei: Memory of martyrs always gives us hope, courage

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Imam Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, issued a message on the occasion of Sacred Defense Week and the Day of Honoring Martyrs and Veterans. The following is the full text of his message.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Imam Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, issued a message on the occasion of Sacred Defense Week and the Day of Honoring Martyrs and Veterans. The following is the full text of his message.

In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The passage of time has not been able and will never be able to erase the honorable memory of the dear martyrs from the memory of the Iranian nation.

This shining honor will always be decorated with the title of martyrdom and the memory of the martyrs.

This historical reserve will always give our future generations hope, ambition and courage to take strong, firm steps toward lofty goals and not be afraid of the enmity of the slinking devils of the world.

The alliance of justice and truth will gain major victories with this divine power and array, God willing.

Sayyid Ali Khamenei

September 24, 2020

The Final Martyrs (Revelation 13:10)

Christians Are Living Dangerously, Converting To Islam in ISIS-Controlled Iraq


By KOMFIE MANALO (NEWS@GOSPELHERALD.COM) Nov 04, 2015 12:00 PM

Christians are being forced to convert to Islam and are living dangerous lives in Islamic State-controlled Iraq. For many Christians, the choices are to convert to Islam or face death.

Mayada Abdul Rhani recalled to CBS News how she and her fled the town of Mosul in Iraq after the ISIS/ISIL terrorist group overran the city and the neighboring villages.

Rhani said, “They recruit and train kids like mine to behead people. How could I ever live with those people? It was difficult to live with them before ISIS, now it’s impossible.”

Now Rhani has joined thousands of other Christians living in the village of Alqosh that is still under the Iraqi government. Alqosh is a Christian village founded in the 7th century and home to the Saint Hormizd monastery, which was carved out of the mountainside.

Father Gazwan Baho said the Christian refugees also felt betrayed by Muslim neighbors they had known generations who have openly supported the ISIS/ISISL jihadist, also known in the region as Daesh

Baho told CBS News, “Many of them were supporting Daesh. So we know that Daesh will go away from Iraq, maybe not this year, but the next, but the mentality of Daesh will remain in Mosul.”
This reality has affected the Christian refugees that most have promised never to return to their hometowns even if the ISIS/ISIL are defeated. For many of them, Iraq is no longer their home.
Meanwhile, a German journalist who was embedded with the Islamic terrorist and spent 10 days with the jihadists revealed that the group is planning a nuclear holocaust to wipe the west off the face of the Earth.

The Daily Mail said the ISIS/ISIL terror group allowed Jürgen Todenhöfer to spend 10 days with them because he is known for his high-profile criticism of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Todenhöfer revealed that the Islamic jihadists are planning to launch a ‘nuclear tsunami’ against the west and all those that opposes them to establish an Islamic caliphate.

Todenhöfer made the revelations in his new book ‘Inside IS – Ten Days In The Islamic State’.
Todenhöfer said, “Of course I’d seen the terrible, brutal beheading videos and it was of course after seeing this in the last few months that caused me the greatest concern in my negotiations to ensure how I can avoid this. Anyway, I made my will before I left.

“People there live in shellholes, in barracks, in bombed-out houses. I slept on the floor, if I was lucky on a plastic mattress. I had a suitcase and a backpack, a sleeping bag.”