I told you they would attack our military. Trump made a big mistake, he started a holy war.

[shockey80]

I am not an expert on Iran but I knew when Trump killed one of the top leaders in Iran it would set off a holy war. Something Trump and the Republicans don't understand. Iranian culture, religion, believes in an eye for eye.

It did matter what we thought of the Iranian general, what matters is what the Iranian people thought of their general. We have very dumb people running our government.

[still_one]

1. Before the targeted killing of the general there were Iranians protesting the Iranian government

Trump has now united the Iranians against us

[braddy]

2. It was only a couple of weeks ago when the ayatollahs were killing 1500 of their anti-gvernment

demonstrators, including 400 women as 100s of thousands Iranians took to the streets in protest.

[Caliman73]

3. Not really a holy war. This is the Regime in Iran staying in power.

They had to hit back at our military and it had to be mainly Iranian arms so that the Regime could say that they are not taking this injury lightly.

The regime has control through oppression, but if they look weak at all, there will be blood in the water.

Certainly they can use the insult and the idea of holy war to rile the people, but this was a political move by Iranian officials who want to stay in control of the country.

[mountain grammy]

4. Pompeo and Pence started a holy war.

All about Israel and the fucking rapture. Religious fanatics in control..both countries.

[Hortensis]

5. Another of the 10 killed was a major Iraqi Hezbollah leader,

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Jerusalem Post: Deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Units, a mostly Shi’ite group of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, Muhandis was an important key to Iran’s penetration of Iraq, a figure similar to what Hassan Nasrallah is to Lebanon.

His death has gone less noticed because it was overshadowed by Soleimani’s, but it is no less important. Muhandis was important because for years he helped build up not only his own armed militia, Kataib Hezbollah (KH), but also transformed the PMU into an official force that can project power throughout Iraq and into Syria.

The PMU is more than Hezbollah: It is a massive organization of 100,000 armed men, with access to another 200,000 men who have served in its ranks. Raised to fight ISIS, it became an official force of the government in 2017. It is trying to become Iraq’s version of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Soleimani and Muhandis were working together on this effort.