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To: TobagoJack who wrote (185293)	3/13/2022 9:19:09 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218876

Ballistic missiles hit Iraqi city, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claim responsibility The missiles, which targeted the U.S. consulate’s new building, caused only material damage and one civilian was injured, the Kurdish interior ministry said. March 13, 2022, 9:10 AM EDT By Reuters Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed responsibility for a dozen ballistic missiles that struck Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil in the early hours of Sunday, Iran’s state media reported, adding that the attack was against Israeli “strategic centres.” The missile attack comes as talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal face the prospect of collapse after a last-minute Russian demand forced world powers to pause negotiations for an undetermined time despite having a largely completed text. The missiles, which targeted the U.S. consulate’s new building, caused only material damage and one civilian was injured, the Kurdish interior ministry said. An Iraqi security official told Reuters that the missiles were manufactured in Iran. “Any repetition of attacks by Israel will be met with a harsh, decisive and destructive response,” the Revolutionary Guard said in a statement reported by state media. A U.S. official blamed Iran for the attack earlier on Sunday but did not give further details. Iranian officials have yet to comment. Separately, U.S. State Department spokesperson called it an “outrageous attack” but said no Americans were hurt and there was no damage to U.S. government facilities in Erbil. U.S. forces stationed at Erbil’s international airport complex have in the past come under fire from rocket and drone attacks that Washington blames on Iran-aligned militia groups, but no such attacks have occurred for several months. “Iran's premature to point finger of blame at specific party but initial reports show indisputably that it was a cross-border short range missile attack,” an Iraqi security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. “Parts of the fired missiles were retrieved and it was manufactured by Iran,” he said. In another sign of increased regional tensions, Iran also suspended on Sunday a fifth round of talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia that were due to take place in Baghdad on Wednesday. The last time ballistic missiles were directed at U.S. forces was in January 2020 — an Iranian retaliation for the U.S. killing earlier that month of its military commander Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad airport. No U.S. personnel were killed in the 2020 attack but many suffered head injuries. Iraq and neighbouring Syria are regularly the scene of violence between the United States and Iran. Iran-backed Shi’ite Islamist militias have attacked U.S. forces in both countries and Washington has on occasion retaliated with air strikes. An Israeli air strike in Syria on Monday killed two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Iranian state media said last week. The IRGC vowed to retaliate, it said. A Kurdish spokesperson for the regional authorities said there were no flight interruptions at Erbil airport. Watch: U.S. Embassy in Baghdad targeted by rocket attackJAN. 13, 202200:47 Residents of Erbil posted videos online showing several large explosions, and some said the blasts shook their homes. Reuters could not independently verify those videos. Iraq has been rocked by chronic instability since the defeat of the Sunni Islamist group Islamic State in 2017 by a loose coalition of Iraqi, U.S.-led and Iran-backed forces. Since then, Iran-aligned militias have regularly attacked U.S. military and diplomatic sites in Iraq, U.S. and many Iraqi officials say. Iran denies involvement in those attacks. Reuters

To: TobagoJack who wrote (185293)	3/13/2022 5:30:20 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218876

I think the entering argument is in error... in ever considering team Biden as likely competent enough to ever enable any of that production... even if "a deal" were doable ? There's a reason that it was Russians who have been trying to do that work in Venezuela ? I don't see Biden et al as being any more competent than Maduro et al ? It is the constant conundrum of bad leadership... that bad leaders are incompetent... and thus depend on others competency to get anything done... but competent people don't work for incompetent leaders... and, as they threaten incompetent leaders by being competent... they are forced out when found... But, the Joe Biden's and John Kerry's of the world... assume it is "going through the motions" that makes things happen... expecting "trying" is as good as and the same thing as succeeding... So, even if they did make a deal... and got to work... it would take them 10 years to make anything happen... while costing them far more than it was worth to "succeed"... as team Russia/China have by now discovered in trying to "get Venezuelan oil on the cheap"... not that there are not competent Venezuelans who could make it happen... only that the politics prevents that happening... The Iranians are similarly hobbled... but still competent enough to deliver...except...