#NEW: The Pentagon has deployed a task force of special operations troops that includes Army Rangers to the Middle East, the centerpiece of this special operations deployment is a company from the 75th Ranger Regiment. This adds to the 4000 soldiers from…

#NOW: Muqtada al-Sadr asks all Shiites to join the Shiite Liberation Army. He invites all brigades and resistance factions to immediately form a coalition. #Iraq

#BREAKING - Initial reports of civilian casualties following rocket fire towards the US Embassy - it appears the rocket landed in an apartment block just opposite the Embassy. (@AlArabiya_Brk)

#BREAKING: Following to yesterday's warning of #IRGC backed Kataib Hezbollah, this group just started retaliatory rocket attacks against #US targets in #Iraq. Minutes ago they carried-out a rocket attack at #Baghdad's #GreenZone. Total 5 rockets hit a building…

10 signs to watch for by people tweeting who know nothing about the Middle East but will now talk as if they do: 1) before yesterday they’d never heard of #Soleimani & still struggle to remember what his first name was

They attacked us, & we hit back. If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before! https://t.co/qI5RfWsSCH

Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including…

....hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American…

....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants…

These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but…

Sayed Ali Al Husseini : Nasrallah admits the role of #QassemSoleimani in #Yemen, without details. It means that the Iranian is the architect of the war there, and he is behind the missile attacks on #SaudiArabia. #Nasrallah confirmed what the international…

#Iraqi hackers hacked the official website of Prominent #Shia cleric Muqtada as-Sadr.

Iran could also take the oh so popular method of waiting until it is dark in both Iran and Iraq before responding. So, potentially around 1-4 AM local time. Or, around 3-6 PM EST, tomorrow.

#Iraqi protestors attack pro Khamenei Hashd al Shaabi militia building in Dhi Qar, #Iraq. The fight against Soleimani & Khamenei’s oppression continues. https://t.co/ODaFWJA5ov

Military HF radio monitors have just intercepted an Emergency Action Message (EAM) of 116 characters. This is a message length not heard for a very long time and an indication that something significant may be underway at present #AvGeek #RadioGeek #MilMonWorld

Isn't it interesting that members of #Iran's Majlis (parliament) chant "Death to America!" while many regime officials send their children to U.S. universities? https://t.co/7WO2PUekho

The mullahs never ceased developing nuclear weapons, which is one of several reasons @realDonaldTrump was correct to withdraw from the #IranDeal, which also was unverifiable. The #EU must now join the U.S. in implementing compehensive economic sanctions against…

Former CIA DIrector David Petraeus: "It's impossible to overstate the significance" of taking out Qasem Soleimani. "This is bigger than [taking out Osama] bin Laden" and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. https://t.co/hEvffQbueP https://t.co/18dHoLbPiM