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US drone strike kills 3 Iranian generals in Baghdad

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, pro-Iranian “protesters” attacked the US embassy in Baghdad, apparently trying to do a repeat of the 1979 attack on the US embassy in Iran. Today President Trump responded with 4 precision missiles which destroyed a convoy of Iranian generals and a colonel near the Baghdad airport.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7847069/Rocket-attack-Baghdad-airport-kills-seven.html

The attack unfolded in a precision strike on two cars that were carrying Soleimani and Iraq-based PMF militiamen who were picking him up from the airport.

Soleimani had arrived at the airport on a plane from either Syria or Lebanon around 12.30am when he was met on the tarmac by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.

Muhandis pulled up to the aircraft steps in two cars before Soleimani and Mohammed Ridha Jabri, public relations chief for the PMF who had been traveling with him, climbed inside and were driven away.

Moments later, as the cars passed through a cargo area headed for an access road leading out of the airport, the convoy was struck by four missiles fired by an MQ-9 Reaper drone.

Both vehicles were instantly reduced to smoldering wrecks - killing Soleimani, Muhandis, Jabri and two others who have yet to be identified. 

Two officials from the PMF said Soleimani's body was torn to pieces in the attack, while they did not find the body of al-Muhandis. 

A senior politician said Soleimani's body was identified by the ring he wore. Photos from the scene show a hand with large ring that looks identical to one Soleimani is seen wearing in old photos.

Local militia commander Abu Muntathar al-Hussaini told Reuters: 'Haj Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were riding in one vehicle when it was struck by two successive guided missiles launched from an American helicopter while they were on their way from the arrivals hall on the road that leads out of Baghdad Airport.'

He said the second vehicle was carrying bodyguards from the PMF and was hit by one rocket….

The attack came amid tensions with the United States after a New Year's Eve attack by Iran-backed militias on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. 

The two-day embassy attack which ended Wednesday prompted Trump to order about 750 U.S. soldiers immediately deployed to the Middle East, with thousands more put on alert for imminent deployment.

This incident will no doubt have consequences, so you should be aware of what has happened. General Soleimani was considered to be the second most powerful man in Iran and the heir apparent to the president himself.

I think they should have known better than to mess with an American embassy during the Trump presidency.