{"id":80148,"date":"2020-01-03T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T17:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=80148"},"modified":"2020-01-06T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T21:56:29","slug":"news-and-analysis-1-3-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=80148","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/3\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trump assassinates a senior military leader of a state with which we are not at war, offering no evidence in support of the claimed justification that  &#8220;the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/iran\" target=\"_blank\">Iranian<\/a> general was &#8216;plotting to kill&#8217; US citizens&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iran-news-live-trump-war-latest-iraq-general-soleimani-death-attack-a9268526.html\">Trump Claims Qassem Soleimani Was \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPlotting to Kill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Americans, and Urges US Citizens to Leave Iraq After Killing of Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Top General<\/a> (Independent) <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-01-03\/trump-rattles-mideast-and-u-s-politics-with-risky-iran-strike\">Trump Rattles Mideast, U.S. Politics With Risky Iran Strike<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-vows-retaliation-after-us-kills-top-general-in-iraq-live-updates\/a-51874503\">Iran Vows &#8216;Retaliation&#8217; After US kills Top General in Iraq<\/a> (Deutsche Welle) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and assassinated a leader of the group that attacked the U.S. embassy in Baghdad just after the group had withdrawn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/5c01f233f4a80281e8b65259352a878c\">Attack on US Embassy Exposes Widening US-Iraq Divide on Iran<\/a> (AP)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/887302\/iraq-deputy-parliament-speaker-vows-decisive-decisions-end-presence-country\">Iraq Deputy Parliament Speaker Vows &#8216;Decisive Decisions&#8217; to End U.S. Presence in the Country<\/a> (The Week)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/military\/2020\/01\/03\/iran-vows-harsh-response-to-us-killing-of-top-general\/\">U.S. Urges American Citizens to Leave Iraq \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcImmediately\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (Tampa Bay Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s FM calls the assassination of the man who fought against ISIS &#8220;rogue adventurism&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iraq-security-blast-zarif\/irans-zarif-says-us-responsible-for-consequences-of-rogue-adventurism-idUSKBN1Z207I\">Iran&#8217;s Zarif Says U.S. Responsible for Consequences of &#8216;Rogue Adventurism&#8217;<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Is Trump&#8217;s act of war against Iran a desperate attempt to save a failing presidency?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2020\/01\/trump-north-korea-iran-clueless.html\">Trump Is Clueless on Iran and North Korea<\/a> (Slate) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/old-trump-tweets-emerge-claim-obama-wanted-war-iran-2020-1\"> <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/old-trump-tweets-emerge-claim-obama-wanted-war-iran-2020-1\">Trump Tweets Predicting Obama Would Start a War with Iran to Get Reelected Are Coming Back to Haunt Him<\/a> (Business Insider) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold and &#8220;[o]ther haven assets, including Treasury bonds, platinum, and silver, rose on news of the US strike&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/commodities\/news\/gold-price-6-year-high-us-iran-tensions-soleimani-attack-2020-1-1028793377\">Gold nears 6-year high as US-Iran tensions send traders fleeing to safety<\/a> (Markets Insider)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia may be an anomaly and elsewhere &#8220;Islamists and conservatives &#8230; may face a radical  version of the Enlightenment: fiercely anticlerical and decidedly  antireligious&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/23\/opinion\/islam-religion.html\">A New Secularism Is Appearing in Islam<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump assassinates a senior military leader of a state with which we are not at war, offering no evidence in support of the claimed justification that &#8220;the Iranian general was &#8216;plotting to kill&#8217; US citizens&#8221; &#8230; Trump Claims Qassem Soleimani Was \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPlotting to Kill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Americans, and Urges US Citizens to Leave Iraq After Killing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80148"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80930,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80148\/revisions\/80930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}