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Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force General Amir Ali Hajizadeh reveals key details regarding the recent retaliatory Iranian ballistic missile attacks on US bases in Iraq.
Source: Iranian media: Al-Alam News/Fars News Agency
Date: 09/01/2020
Transcript:
– We struck with our missiles areas in the American airbase (in Iraq) that was used for equipping attack helicopters
– We were able to target the barracks of US soldiers in airbase but we avoided that because our aim was to target the command center
– We struck the US command center of the Ain al-Assad base and images reveal the extent of its destruction
– US President Trump use to visit Ain al-Assad airbase when he visits Iraq
– Our aim was to create terror and panic in hearts of US forces (in airbase)
– US forces transported its injured soldiers to Zionist entity (Israel) using 9 airplanes
– We have not heard of any targeting of American military bases without subsequent US retaliation ever since WWII
– What we heard from Trump is nonsense, America could have attacked Iran yet it was focusing on media action
– There are many targets in Iran yet America is unable to carry out such operations
– The world now knows who is the one that lost the battle
– US forces will inevitably leave the region
– The Resistance Axis is the one that will kick out American forces from the region
– There is no doubt that there are dead & injured among the US forces even though we targeted the base’s command centers
– The next step (of the response) will be carried out by the factions of the Resistance Axis
– The next response will not be merely a ‘slap’, but rather a step that will transform the situation of the region entirely
– Our first operation does not equal blood of the martyrs, the leader has announced that the retaliation will be achieved with the full withdrawal of US forces from region
– We are not criminals like the Americans, we could have targeted the residential buildings within the US base
– A new phase of the Revolution has begun with Soleimani’s martyrdom
– What’s important is we managed to break prestige of America
– We were expecting a response from US and we were prepared to respond to their response
– I tell the states overlooking Persian Gulf: America will not move to rescue you
– This is the first time that US bases are targeted since WWII
– During the operation targeting the US base we were expecting to receive a response, and we were prepared for all-out war
– We decided to target the largest US base and the furthest away from Iranian borders
– We were not looking to kill US soldiers with our missile attack, but surely many were killed
– We could have designed operation to kill 500 in the 1st step, & if they responded, we could have killed 4,000-5,000 in 2nd & 3rd steps
I don’t know what to think about this. For sure somebody is not being truthful.
Well, Craig, we know that the US is incapable of lying. Right?
No, the U.S. seems incapable of telling the truth. In every sentence, they either lie or project their evil deeds onto others. It is difficult to listen to anymore.
But there are contradictions across the entire media spectrum as to the results of this event. I haven’t seen any meaningful pictures.
Craig Mouldey
At present we have contradictory data on US casualties. It would appear that Iranians informed Iraq about the intended attack, and the Iraqis informed the US. The chief intent of Iran was to show resolve and efficiency of it’s missile systems, which are indeed accurate. The intent was not to create mass casualties in the two American bases. Maybe there were no US casualties. Time will tell.
However, General Hajizadeh is incorrect when he stated that this was the first time since World War Two that US bases were struck. In 1999 the Serbs used combat planes to hit a US base in Albania and another in Bosnia, destroying helicopters on the ground.
So there you have it. There were likely casualties and certainly many were injured.
Thanks a lot for the clarification.
we will probably get drip fed injuries and accidents of usa troops drip fed over the next few months.
Ruca, this talk of “no American casualties” sounds too much like the glowing reports of endless Nazi victories against the Soviet Union (all is well, right?) issued even as the Nazis were freezing to death at Stalingrad.
The lies just never end.
Woweeee! No wonder the guy behind Trump while he was giving his speech, looked so anxious!
If the above is really true, the penny must be dropping at the US military side that they are NOT equipped to deal with this.
P.S. Just read a comment on Moon of Alabama, that there were reports of planes and helicopters leaving the base right after the bombing, indicating that these were taking the wounded away?
Maybe going to get new supplies of soldiers laundry……..creating safe haven for any in house ISIS….any Iraqi who had sought refuge from the government….Pentagon and other top level officials and unofficials….peoples they use in protests against Iran and Iraq eg MEK….secret documents computers etcetc
That would be General Mark Milley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_A._Milley
Very good affirmation of recent events. One point not mentioned is how the defense guarding the base was breached.
Seems that days of leniency are over. Us navy sailors better hone their navigation skills, no more catch and release.
Ps: thanks for bringing it to our attention
One of the journalists asked the question and the commander explained, that there are two usa; One is the real usa and the other is the fictitious usa. He explained, that unlike the Hollywood usa, the real usa is not as mighty as people think. He mentioned, that the same systems had also failed during the Houthi. He said, that hitting the command and control center in the base had created a lot a chaos.
A this point I’ll assume that everyone is lying. The truth will come out in due time.
In my opinion this is a wise assumption.
I agree I wouldn’t believe the Iranian version any more than the blowhard FOX/CNN version. Neither side has a rep for telling the truth, especially when both sides are obliged to engage in psy-ops (lie-ops).
Either way one thing can’t be disputed, the blowhard-in-chief made a clear threat, then had his bluff called by the Iranians who bombed his military bases – with impunity -, and then the orange-blowhard-in-chief backed down like a quivering rodent, – while BS-ing that it was the Iranians that backed down -.
Trump has weakened his country, bungled the security posture of the US military in the middle East. All this because he let some snake in his coterie egg him on with disinfo and playing on his sense of entitlement (projected to include the entire USA), his insecurities, his bigotry and built in racial/cultural/religious superiority biases (the kind where an uppity “third world” Iran expecting its just basic rights and sovereignty respected, is considered intolerable insolence), played on his ungoverned emotions and played on his ignorance. Whether that’s snakish instigator is Kushner, Pompeo, Esper, or any other combination of conniving instigators, Trump had better burn these peoples careers (fire or sideline them) before they end up doing the same to him.
All that is nonesense.
That is all staged up affair.
Due to asymetry of power.
It is quite obvious that the only way for Iran to answer to US military bombing of its territory is to bomb back all PG oil ewtraction units and pipeline.
That would be the end of it in few days. With all world countries being thrown in WWIII and bankrupt (save maybe Russia).
The US can simply not attack Iran.
The cost and bankrupcy being simply unbearable.
War at no cost is finished for the US.
Even if Russia wanna invade Ukraine. The US can do nothing. Only there is no Russia benefit for that.
That is at, least for me, clear enough.
The great loser in all this affair is Europe.
Truly a non existing entity that is out of the map of history. Pathetic.
The Iranian capacity to bomb the oil out of ME is already as much powerfull as Nuke.
Iran does not need nuke. Iran have already deterrent power.
That simply explain why western power wanna eliminate Iran balistic capability.
Iran’s Nuke power is closing the Straits of Hormuz and the results will be a global catastrophe of epic proportion. Without oil one cannot even lite an ‘Oil Lamp’. It would be a laugh if when America beg Venezuela for a drop of Oil.
Not that i am on their side, but America has untold reserves of oil, what are you talking about.
If there really were casualties and Trump plus his advisers were lying, then that means the US is quite weak indeed.
Nobody wants this war except the Neocons and their Zionist buddies in Israel. If the top Pentagon brass would prefer to cover up casualties than go to war with Iran, then it must mean the chances of them being forced out of the middle east during a war with Iran is actually quite high. If Iran can indeed kill 4,000 – 5,000 US soldiers in one missile wave, then it means that the US going to war with Iran would be a complete and utter catastrophe. It is simply not even thinkable.
That’s not even counting the tens of thousands of Israeli civilians who would be killed in Iran + Hezbollah’s missile strikes in the event of total war. It really makes you wonder, what the fuck are the Zionists thinking? The idea of total war should be unthinkable for everyone, and yet the Zionists clearly want one. Are they really willing to sacrifice thousands of Israeli lives for this? I don’t think so. And yet everything they do is contradictory.
Of course, it’s also possible that there were not very many casualties (maybe only a few dozen), or the IRGC is exaggerating. Maybe those nine planes were carrying sensitive military equipment instead of wounded. Who knows.
We probably won’t ever know the full truth.
At one point it was said there only Iraqi casualties, indicating total disarray.
This was a massive intelligence failure by the US. The obvious next question is how good are Iranian AA defences – looks like the US is not game to investigate, for now.
The Iranians have gravitas, whilst The the US is reaching for the little blue pills.
You assume it was Pentegon staff that was killed, lots of 3letter agents hang out on US bases, have thier own living area, have thier own equipment, so if Pentegon says no US soldiers killed they are likely not lying, as did people get hurt or die, well the planes bugging out would suggest that. I’d expect there will be names added to the Wall of Fools in Langley. And that will never ever be disclosed. Like Trump would shed a tear for them esp if he was set up by them……………..
That’s what I was thinking: 3-letter operatives + some of Eric Prince’s and other mercenaries. British, French, and others. Off the books in terms of DoD casualty counts.
That wall in Langley only has stars. Forlorn, little stars.
“… so if Pentegon says no US soldiers killed they are likely not lying, as did people get hurt or die, well the planes bugging out would suggest that.”
That is possible. According to the Pentagon if a wounded (or dead but not certified dead) soldier makes it to a stretcher he is classified as having died while receiving treatment- i.e. not a casualty on the battlefield.
The US could have struck back but… Israel and the US proper could not -cannot- pay the subsequent price.
Thousands of dead americans, idem of israelis including civilians, three dozen ME refineries and big pipelines in flat wreck to the ground.
And… last.not.least the sudden revelation the US forces are very vulnerable, US equipment of both surveillance and anti-missile is a big bluff.
It would be too much if and when the world gets to know that…that the king is simply skin naked.
To me it appears the Iran is taunting the U.S. The message that I get from this is that Iran is saying to the U.S: ‘Come, come, we’re ready’.
Of course the U.S. does not want to fight with somebody who is willing and capable of fighting back.
With each incident (Syria (Douma), June’s drone shoot down, this one) the U.S. looks weaker and weaker. And as their antagonists get bolder in the face of U.S. weakness, the U.S. will eventually have no choice but to go home with their tail between there legs.
Question:
Why didn’t the US missile defense work? Anyone have an idea? Just read an article saying that missile defense systems weren’t used.
I didn’t even hear about it going into action. This plus the refinery attack at Abqaiq-Khurais completely baffle me. Are there no functioning missile defenses for US forces in the area? If I were a soldier on these bases I would be scared to death right now.
Tom, if by “U$ defense systems” you mean Patriots, they are a farce — like the latest Fxx Flying Lemon — good only for making money for Mr.Mic. I was in Israel when they were installed as “defense” against Saddam’s Scuds, used to go out and watch them take off with an almighty bang, and my Israeli contact tells me that with all the noise and broken glass going up and coming down the Patriots did more damage than the Scuds. The Patriot was also useless against Hezb missiles in 2006. I guess Israel’s Iron Dome is a Patriot copy, judging from the Iron Dumkopf’s poor “defense” against primitive WW2 bazookas home-made by Hamas during Israel’s last two incursions into Gaza.
Tom: EW capabilities I suspect. Link below from Anonymous to IRGC general saying they launched a cyber attack on the base. Iranian missiles are also jam proof and have EW capabilities.
Maybe the US thought they didn’t need air defense to protect the al-Asad airbase:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-military/u-s-military-eyes-adjustments-after-iran-surprises-with-attack-in-iraq-official-says-idUSKBN1Z82MZ
“The U.S. military has deployed Patriot air defenses in other Middle East locations like Saudi Arabia, where it would have been able to shoot down incoming Iranian missiles. But it did not have that capability at al-Asad airbase in Iraq, where at least 11 of Iran’s ballistic missiles hit in Wednesday’s attack.”
In the history of the world, spilling blood has always been the measure of payment for sin. Even Jesus Christ the Messiah of the Jews, spilled his precious blood to pay for the cleansing of man’s sin.
I hope that all the alternate news services including the Vineyard of the Saker tap into their in-country resources and uncover the truth about those that were injured or perished due to the Iranian counterattack. It is important for Washington, DC and the American people as well as their NATO lackeys to know that “collateral damage” happens even under hidden agreements between adversaries.
If no U.S. casualties were reported, there will no be no satisfaction until U.S. blood stains the soil of the land belonging to the Arabs and maybe even the Persians because human life is the ultimate price demanded for payment. The number does not matter, only that it be done.
@ Poke The Truth You said “Even Jesus Christ the Messiah of the Jews”.
That’s way off course! The Jews don’t have a Messiah. The Jewish Talmud thoroughly rejects Jesus Christ. Back in the 15 or 1600’s, Rabbi Sabbatea Zeti declared himself the Jewish Messiah, upon his death, Rabbi Jacob Frank declared himself the reincarnation of Sabbatei, thus the new Jewish messiah. Both were Satanists bringing pedophilia, Babylonian Blood sacrifice (sacrificial murder) into the deep inner core of Zionism. They were rejected by more traditional Rabbis as imposters, but Jacob Frank already had a million followers in that time period. He taught his followers to infiltrate other secret organizations and governments. He inverted societial rules. What is good is bad (don’t do good), and what is bad is good (do bad). The deep hidden inner core of Zionism is Sabbatean/Frankist Satanic, though most Jews have no clue, also as Christian Zionists have no clue. Many modern Rabbis consider the Jewish people a collective Messiah. The Jewish Talmud, which many Jews know little of, is filled with hatred for Jesus, Mary, etc. in a very ugly blasphemous way.
Jesus was never a Jewish Messiah. They saw him as a trouble maker.
The best to you!
Oh, come on “Barry in rural Missouri” — do some homework, the whole Jewish system is based on waiting for their Messiah. That the individual you mention is not recognized by them as such is a separate matter.
But the phrase was ““Even Jesus Christ the Messiah of the Jews”.
That is patently wrong.
Jesus Christ was not recognized by the Jews as their Messiah.
What’s to argue here?
That story has a bit more to it.
Jacob Frank lived in Offenbach at the same time and half an hour walk from a Goldsmith in Frankfurt named Mayer Amschel Bauer. He used a red business sign and later used the name”Rothschild.”
Are you serious?
The Talmud claims to be instruction on how Jews should lead their daily lives in service to God. It is not God inspired but an amalgamation of perverse interpretations wrapped around the Holy Torah and written by descendants of the Pharisee priests who conspired with the Romans to crucify Jesus Christ.
Any person who claims to be a Christian should be knowledgeable in the Logo spoken by the Son of God himself as recorded in the Holy Gospel according to Mathew.
“Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Mathew 15:21:24 KJV 1611)
Even the Muslim faithful accept that Christ was the Messiah as written in the Holy Quran.
When the angels said, ‘O Mary, Allah gives thee glad tidings of a word from Him; his name shall be the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, honoured in this world and in the next, and of those who are granted nearness to God; (3: 45 Al-Imran Holy Quran)
The Jews may not accept Jesus as their Messiah as written in the repugnant Talmud but billions of Christians and Muslims do.
https://twitter.com/shafei_d/status/1215252597885620224
General Hajizadeh, commander of IRGC’s Aerospace Force: “During the missile attack against the US military sites in the Ain Al-Asad airbase, we initiated a cyber attack that deactivated their jet fighters’ and drones’ aviation systems.”
WOW!
A nugget of info, thanks Anonymous
https://twitter.com/shafei_d/status/1215265657287213056
General Hajizadeh: ‘dozens of their troops are definitely killed, even though we weren’t looking for any casualties . Our goal was to attack our enemy’s war machine.’
https://twitter.com/IbnRiad/status/1215253694381527040
– We could have destroyed the place where the majority of US troops were, but we did not do this. – Our goal was to destroy the leadership HQ at Ain al-Assad, and this is what we did, as the images show.
So they took out the command center with attendant personnel. No wonder the brass were stony faced behind Trump.
Wouldn’t said personnel have been retreating in their bunker along with everyone else?
Some good sources say (Panarin)
-Trump was set up by the swamp ( cia, brennan, de angelo…)
– all know the situation
– Iran attacked cia drone hq facility
– casualties, woundes (tens of…)
– trump will go after cia faction managed by brennan
Let’s hope he also goes after the cia faction managed by Haspel (Mike Pompeo’s girl).
Who is de Angelo?
Katherine
Both Panarin and DeAngelo are New York Rangers. Hockey players. (Go Blueshirts!)
Haha! What the heck is going on??!
During the press conference the Commander Hajizadeh the head of the IRGC aerospace forces said, that they had fired 13 missiles at the American base, all of which had hit their targets. He said, that IRGC had prepared hundreds of missiles in case of a usa response. He explained, that in case of an attack on Iran his forces would have fired thousands of missiles in response. He said, that according to their calculations, the upcoming battle would have taken between 3 days to a week. He called the American bases a prison consisting of limited space. He said, that they were not after killing American soldiers, but could have easily killed 500 of them, if they wanted to, because they knew, where the americans were inside the base. He said that the americans had suffered casualties, who were flown to Jordan and Israel using C130 planes and had flown some of their dead and wounded to the American hospital in Bagdad. He talked of new resistance organizations being created and called upon Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Afganistan ….. to expel americans forces, otherwise it will be forced upon them by the new resistance organization in their respective countries.
Yes, the kicker is they took out the HQ together with the commanders, apparently.
Hmmm … what about the Tehran/Ukraine aircrash false flag? That’s really being pushed now and gaining traction, especially in that tool of MI6 The Guardian. No bigger clue of a false flag op than that, complete with picture of small part of missile captured by an ‘Iranian activist’ that just happened to be on the scene (nudge nudge wink wink) seems like an Israeli false flag to me. Lots of the old “intelligence sources have revealed …” BS
Pathetic attempt by the US to recover the moral high ground it hasn’t had for 70 years.
I hate to post the link as I don’t like to give them the hits or the publicity but well sometimes you’ve gotta. Obviously these people have learned nothing from Douma!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/tehran-crash-plane-downed-by-iranian-missile-western-officials-believe
Zionazi blame-game pattern emerges again with ukie passenger jet crash. This time is canadian shrimp Trudeau who has “intel” from multiple sources…
Now I have no doubt zaionazi did it.
A mistake? Maybe a Patriot missile was fired and hit it OR maybe it was simply an accident. It was a Boeing after all. A terrible horror for all the poor souls on board.
Please, let Israel be the next to learn a lesson from Iranis! Expell them from ME as well. They already run Washington D.C. so it’ s not a big deal to move the “chosen” over there… Bibi, pack your bags ready.
I think the missile defense systems did not work because of the systematic corruption in the US military. The patriot has never worked well but US plus compliant TV “news” has given it a rep. The generals retire and co to work for the arms makers,. The US mentality is everyone fears our firepower so we don’t really need a defense.
Look at Wapo article about military lying for 18 years about Afghanistan. Corruption and lying are pervasive throughout the military.
US and Service nationalism blinds them on the strategic side. CAN DO! US ARMY hurray! mentality will trump sober analysis. If 90% of the Iraqi people hate the US, keeping troops there not tenable, with no supply line thru Iraq, US troops in Syria untenable. US military and CIA can not look at reality, it would mean the US Mideast policy since 2001 has been a total failure
@JN.Spanger: “US Mideast policy since 2001 has been a total failure”.
Quite the contrary: a brilliant success. House of Rothschild now owns the Iraqi banks, the Iraqi gold and a good portion of the Iraqi oil. Libyan banks, gold and oil: ditto. Cheney and Bush got their share of the plunder; so did thousands of lower echelon conspirators (military contracts, insider dealing on stock exchange etc). Brilliantly planned, rapidly executed; and didn’t cost the conspirators a red cent of their own money: all paid in blood and treasure courtesy of ordinary 0
law-abiding U$ citizens in their docile millions.
I’ll take it one step further, our military are actually pranksters that when they are not in combat mode overseas, prank their own citizens in a futile attempt to not only ding them financially, but to prove to themselves they are superior to their fellow citizens. This all falls apart when they leave the military and enter back into society unless you are a ranking member and go on to help produce weapons for the gvt.
This is exactly what I suspected. Nothing short of a miracle, and why would God waste a miracle on the USA, would have prevented SOMEONE getting killed and seriously injured during this strike. I knew Trump was lying and also paid close attention to the clowns surrounding him when he said no lives were lost. Guaranteed, the families of the killed will be paid off to keep quiet just like the victims families of 9/11.
My sources are adamant, there were no casualties in the strikes. There are no images anywhere of anything untoward on or anywhere near the base at this time involving any actions that would be extant if casualties had occurred. Have sources been wrong before? Of course. This time? Don’t know, but all I can do is go on the quite accurate info from as recent as three days ago.
We will know the truth, supposedly, in a few days, but the distressing problem is now Uncle Sugar is trying to pin the aircraft tragedy on Iran. Nothing will jerk President Trump’s heartstrings more than being shown images of young dead at the crash site, and in my opinion the swamp is trying to bambozzle the president in to an attack on Iran ‘because of the almost 200 dead innocents’.
Therein is the problem, is he being fed massive disinformation….again? Probably, and the swamp hungers for war against what they think is an easy target. What they don’t understand is war in that neck of the woods will instantly shut down Hormuz, KSA et al will be visited by enough flying ordinance to put a severe dampner on the world’s oil supply and economies will tank almost overnight. USA won’t have a problem, if push comes to shove USA can be oil sufficient with domestic production for a while in a pinch. EU, China, India, Nippon etc can not exist without oil from the ME. All the eggs in one basket? Looks like it.
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Sorry but your transcript lack an important part. It’s the part Hajizadeh tells about EW operation 15 minutes after all missils hit their targets and how the videostream to the “situation room” was cut.
To be expected that one side downplays casualties, the other exaggerates them. Secondary at this point, who is nearer to the truth.
Way more important, that General Amir Ali Hajizadeh seems alive and well.
And then, of course there is the issue of the Ukrainian airplane. If your only source of information was twitter, the verdict was clear: Iran shot the plane.
But lots of questions around that. Impossible to tell at this point what really happened. but sth doesn’t pass the smell test here, in a couple of ways and points. TBD.
@Saker: happy new year and a big thank you and take care of yourself and your family and friends. taking an hour off at times to spend with them , instead of being always up to date and posting here, may be worth a thought and hardly anybody would mind. I certainly don’t. All of us have just this one life (well, except for the Hindus and Buddhists among us).
Missiles strike was at : 12:36 AM – Jan 8, 2020
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The plane crashed about 6 hours after the missiles strike. Is it enough time to organize a false flag?? If you had a sleeping cell on the place? May be?