Initial reports CLAIM the United States Consulate in Erbil, Iraq has been hit by Ballistic Missiles. There is allegedly "significant damage." Iran has announced "In response to the terrorist attacks that targeted Iranian citizens in Kerman, leadership sites and gatherings of terrorist organizations in Syria were targeted with a number of Iranian ballistic missiles.
In short, Iran has allegedly fired ballistic missiles from their own territory, into another country, to strike a US Consulate. That seems, on its face, to be an "act of war."
I'm not a military scholar, and do not have keen knowledge of what constitutes a Casus Belli (cause for war) but it sure looks to me as though Iran just served themselves up on a platter for the US to declare war upon them.
Video of the missile hits is on its way to me and will be uploaded shortly.
Developing . . . check back.
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(IRGC) has announced in a second statement that it has destroyed the gathering places of leaders and key elements linked to the recent terrorist crimes in Kerman and Rasak, Syria, with ballistic missiles as part of the missile operation conducted an hour ago.
According to Sepah News, following the missile operation on a "spy headquarters and gathering place of anti-Iran terrorist groups in parts of the region," the IRGC issued statement number 2, which reads as follows:
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"In the name of Allah,
'Those who fight have been wronged, and indeed Allah is capable of granting them victory.'
To the dear and honorable Islamic people of Iran,
In response to the recent crimes committed by terrorist groups, and the unjust martyrdom of members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a group of our dear citizens in Kerman and Rasak;
The gathering places of the leaders and key elements associated with the recent terrorist operations;
Specifically, ISIS organization in the occupied territories in Syria was identified and destroyed by launching a number of ballistic missiles.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps assures the great Iranian nation that it will find and punish the malignant terrorist groups wherever they are for their disgraceful actions.
Other destroyed targets will be announced later."
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in its third announcement, has declared the launch of Baran missiles and the destruction of "a Mossad (Zionist regime's intelligence agency) spy headquarters in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq."
This is likely to have __also__ been the US Consulate in Erbil.
So in one fell swoop, Iran has hit both the US and Israel, with Ballistic missiles, inside Iraq.
Trouble is, a "Consulate" is the territory of the country it represents. So if Iran hit the US Consulate, then they have fired missiles against "U.S. sovereign territory" thus opening themselves up to not only a US war, but "Collective self defense" by NATO, since the US can now say "we have been attacked."
Anyone looking for the official start of World War 3, has likely just found it; especially since Iran and Russia have mutual defense treaties.
DENIAL !
The United States is saying that the Iran missile strike was "near" the US Consulate but "no American facilities were hit and no Americans were injured or killed."
Now, this flies in the face of initial reports telling me there was "severe damage" to the US Consulate.
I'm working to verify the claims and facts.
It has already been suggested to me that "neither the US nor Israel would be inclined to admit a successful Iran missile attack on them in Iraq." So this DENIAL could be the start of a cover up.
Or, perhaps the initial reports were simply wrong.
Fog of war. Lots of chaos. Lots of inaccurate info.
Sorting through it as best I can.
UPDATE 11:09 PM EST --
I can now confirm tonight's attack NEAR the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Iraq was was carried out with 6 Fateh-110 Tactical Short-Range Ballistic Missiles launched by the IRGC.
It is single-stage, road-mobile missile and can carry a high-explosive warhead of up to 500 kg.
Accuracy: 100 m
Diameter: 0.60 m
Engine: Single stage, solid fuel rocket
Guidance system: Inertial & electro-optical terminal (according to Iranian state media);
GNSS (according to Western analysts)
In service: 2002–present
Launch platform: mobile launcher
Mass: 3,500 kg
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps also says it fired ballistic missiles at Aleppo, Syria.
IRGC missiles were launched from the southwest of Iran to attack the positions of northwest Syria at a distance of approximately 1200 km. Iranian State Media is reporting that the Missile Attack tonight by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on ISIS Facilities near the City of Aleppo in Northwestern Syria was the Longest-Range Missile Attack in Iranian History, with the Missiles flying over 1,200km or 760 Miles.
