Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Strike Near U.S. Consulate In Iraq | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

    The Islamic Republic of Iran launched ballistic missiles late on Monday night that landed near the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Iraq.

    The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a wing of Iran's military and a designated terrorist organization, took responsibility for the attacks, saying that they were the "headquarters of spies" and "anti-Iranian terrorist gatherings in parts of the region".

    The IRGC claimed the facilities that it was targeting belonged to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. Iran claimed that Mossad was behind "terrorist activities in the region," which is false.

    Several people were killed in the attacks, according to ABC News. No American casualties were reported.

    National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson addressed the escalation from Iran in a statement emailed to reporters on Monday evening.

    "We have been in touch with senior Iraqi officials as well as officials in the Kurdistan Region," she said. "Iran is claiming this is in response to the terrorist attacks in Kerman, Iran and Rask, Iran, with a focus on ISIS."

    "We will continue to assess the situation, but initial indications are that this was a reckless and imprecise set of strikes," she added. "The United States supports the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of Iraq."


    The attacks comes after Iran has activated its proxies throughout the region to launch more than 120 attacks against U.S. forces since October 17, just a little over a week after Hamas murdered 1,200+ Israelis in an unprecedented terrorist attack.

    Other Iranian proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, have continued launching attacks against Israel while the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have launched dozens of attacks against merchant ships in international waters in the Red Sea.

poll#211

26 days after the October 7th Terror attacks on Israel, where over 1400 Jewish men, women and children were gruesomely murdered, and hundreds more made hostage: Should the Biden /Harris administration finally state that the administration's primary Middle East negotiating partner, Iran, is behind the funding and strategy of the aggressors, the Hamas Terrorists, or continue to take the more moderate position of "Don't," which is clearly not working?

  Yes, name Iran as the funding /strategy culprit, and begin to enforce the President Trump era sanctions to END Iran's ability to prosecute this war against Israel and the United States.

  No, Iran is a valuable partner in the motives of the Biden / Harris administration, and must not be named as the culprit and our enemy.

  I have larger concerns just to survive in this economy.

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poll#209

In the minds of many, since January 20, 2021, the World has become far less safe in every theater of conflict, beginning with the attack of Israel by Iran /Hamas, so the question becomes: What caused this Worldwide calamity of extreme geopolitical dysfunction, and what will correct it?

  Joe Biden is the cause of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when a Republican is elected president.

  This delayed Worldwide dysfunction and constant conflict is all Donald Trump's fault, as it is with everything that occurs going forward, and long before the man ever became the 45th president..

  Joe Biden is the "root cause" of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when former President Donald John Trump is elected president.

  In the imitable words of Alfred E. Newman: "What, me worry?"

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