The hours ticked by and some involved in the operation wondered if it should be called off. That same day, at C.I.A. Seven Days in January. “Suddenly, this man is a diplomat extraordinaire one day before he died?”. Two days later, on Dec. 31, pro-Iranian protesters backed by many members of the same militia responded by breaking into the American Embassy compound in Baghdad and setting fires. Merci d’essayer à nouveau. But Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, still serving as a caretaker until a new government is formed, told Parliament after the drone strike that General Suleimani had another goal — to bring an Iranian response to a Saudi offer to reduce tensions. General Suleimani was hardly a household name in the United States, but as far as American officials were concerned, he was responsible for more instability and death in the Middle East than almost anyone. “What really came across was a sense of disdain and contempt for the legislative branch,” said Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia. Subscribe to Jim Rickards’ Strategic Intelligence Today! Après avoir consulté un produit, regardez ici pour revenir simplement sur les pages qui vous intéressent. We took action last night to stop a war. The French and Japanese both offered to serve as mediators, but that only annoyed Mr. Trump, who dislikes middlemen. Synopsis. “We know that our region is stormy; very, very dramatic things are happening in it,” Mr. Netanyahu told reporters, unprompted, on the tarmac in Tel Aviv before departing for a visit to Athens. He posted a reassuring tweet: “All is well!”. An American was dead and the president who had called off a retaliatory strike with 10 minutes to go in June and otherwise refrained from military action in response to Iranian provocations now faced a choice. This account, based on interviews with dozens of Trump administration officials, military officers, diplomats, intelligence analysts and others in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, offers new details about what may be the most consequential seven days of the Trump presidency. The aftermath of the airstrike on Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani’s car on Jan. 3 at the Baghdad airport. After all, if Gates was blindsided in Pakistan, he already knew that a $626 billion Pentagon budget , including more than $128 billion in war-fighting funds, had passed Congress in December and that his next budget for fiscal year 2011 (soon to be submitted) might well cross the $700 billion mark . Surveillance revealed that he flew on a number of airlines and sometimes tickets for a trip were bought on more than one to throw off pursuers. Another name on the list: General Suleimani. After decades of working in the shadows, General Suleimani had emerged in recent years following the Arab Spring and war with the Islamic State as the public figure most associated with Iran’s goal of achieving regional dominance. They used nonlethal weapons like tear gas to disperse protesters and the siege ended without bloodshed. Actors (7) Manuel Ángel Egea. Members of the Iranian-backed group, known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, in 2017 at the border between Iraq and Syria. If it did, Americans developed plans to strike a command-and-control ship and conduct a cyberattack to partly disable Iran’s oil and gas sector. Just after 5:30 p.m., an almost robotic voice came over a speakerphone in the Situation Room. The memo also listed a more provocative option — targeting specific Iranian officials for death by military strike. By September, the United States Central Command and Joint Special Operations Command were brought into the process to plan a possible operation. American intelligence officials monitoring communications between Kataib Hezbollah and General Suleimani's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps learned that the Iranians wanted to keep the pressure on the Americans but had not intended to escalate the low-level conflict. The immediate crisis over, Mr. Trump sent top officials to brief Congress, but the closed-door sessions in a secure facility where lawmakers had to surrender their telephones did little to quell concerns about the justification for the drone strike. Spain, France, 1979. A procession last month for Iran-backed militia fighters killed in an American airstrike in Iraq, which was a reprisal for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor. Some of the Marines made dry jokes about the movie, “Rules of Engagement,” starring Samuel L. Jackson as a commander whose unit fires on a crowd of embassy protesters, stirring an international episode and a court-martial. Unbeknown to the Iranians, Mr. Trump had agreed to targeting the other sites originally considered — the oil and gas facility and the command-in-control ship — as part of any further retaliation that might be necessary if Iran responded to the drone strike. Shops in Tajrish Square in Tehran. “They didn’t even pretend to be engaged in information sharing and consultation.”, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, called the session for senators “probably the worst briefing” in his nine years in office. During the fourth week of January 1915, the new Food Price committee met ahead of the War Council. Yet some figured that if Hezbollah were to attack Israel on Iran’s behalf, it might be better to have that battle now. Mr. Trump planned to play golf the next morning, Jan. 4, but advisers concluded it would send the wrong message as General Suleimani’s death stirred unrest around the Middle East and raised the prospect of a wider conflict with Iran. General Suleimani had long played a role as power broker in Iraqi politics, and two Iraqi politicians with links to Iran said he was coming to Baghdad to help break an impasse over replacing the prime minister after the collapse of the government in November in the face of anti-Iran protests. Veuillez réessayer. He went on to offer support for the United States “and to its full right to defend itself and its citizens.”. Officials told her there was additional intelligence that he was working on a large-scale attack intended to drive American forces out of the Middle East. January 15, 2020. “We never got to the details,” he said. But as the president watched television over the weekend, he grew angry that critics were accusing him of reckless escalation. Sélectionnez la section dans laquelle vous souhaitez faire votre recherche. Experts say that results of randomised trials are necessary to know whether convalescent plasma is beneficial. The three stars it has here I feel really isn't justice and I hope it hasn't put anyone off. The president’s decision to ratchet up decades of simmering conflict with Iran set off an extraordinary worldwide drama. Trouver tous les livres, en savoir plus sur l'auteur. Altogether, 10 people were killed — General Suleimani, Mr. al-Muhandis and their aides. The operation that took out General Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, propelled the United States to the precipice of war with Iran and plunged the world into seven days of roiling uncertainty. On Tuesday, the Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center, part of the National Security Agency, pulled together multiple strands of information, including overhead imagery and communication intercepts, to conclude that an Iranian missile strike on Iraqi bases was coming, officials said. Photographs surfaced showing him visiting the front lines in Iraq or Syria, meeting with Iran’s supreme leader in Tehran or sitting down with the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. When President Bashar al-Assad of Syria visited Tehran last year, it was General Suleimani who welcomed him. There’s no rush to do anything. Seven days in medicine: 27 January to 2 February BMJ 2021; 372 :n301 doi:10.1136/bmj.n301 All three offered vague but emphatic assertions of intelligence indicating an imminent threat by General Suleimani. Drama, Thriller. Seen in theater. His goal was the office of labor lawyers Atocha, in Madrid. Seven Days in January? Mr. Trump suggested he was still open to diplomacy. If the United States stayed, she said, Germany would also. À la place, notre système tient compte de facteurs tels que l'ancienneté d'un commentaire et si le commentateur a acheté l'article sur Amazon. A billboard in Tehran depicting General Suleimani, left, and an Iraqi official in charge of militias and close to Iran, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed in the drone strike. “The whole thing seems haphazard to me,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior C.I.A. And in the confusion, a Ukrainian civilian passenger jet was destroyed by an Iranian missile, killing 176 people. What particularly displeased me . When the week ended without the war many feared, Mr. Trump boasted that he had taken out an American enemy. But that did not matter to Mr. Trump and his team. In any case, Mr. Leitner went back to the Foreign Ministry at day’s end for the Iranian response. WASHINGTON — The plane was late and the kill team was worried. But as he recalled, General Suleimani laughed, and said that, in fact, he hoped to die a martyr and asked Mr. Nasrallah to pray that he would. Aggression: A man celebrates in Tehran, Iran, on January 8 after the country launched missiles at United States bases in Iraq. While Venezuelan schoolchildren are being encouraged to take their own toilet paper to school, and hotel guests to bring… 7 días de enero. The story of those seven days, and the secret planning in the months preceding them, ranks as the most perilous chapter so far in President Trump’s three years in office after his decision to launch an audacious strike on Iran, and his attempt through allies and a back channel to keep the ensuing crisis from mushrooming out of control. Here’s how the situation developed over the last two weeks. Despite his hawkish approach to Iran, he has been recently accepting offers from Pakistanis, Omanis, Iraqis and others to mediate. In a 15-minute call, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of Germany said the killing had not made it any easier to stabilize the region. As the head of the elite Quds Force, General Suleimani was effectively the second-most powerful man in Iran. In the months to come, they expect Iran to regroup and find ways to strike back. Another lawmaker noted that the three dates General Milley cited were all before the strike on General Suleimani and no attacks actually occurred then. Little did I know what would happen just four days later on January 6 or what would happen afterwards. Advisers told him Iran had probably misinterpreted his previous reluctance to use force as a sign of weakness. As Le Monde, the French newspaper, put it, the rift signaled “a new stage in the trans-Atlantic divorce over the Middle East.”. Seven Days in January (1979) 1 of 2. Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 12 janvier 2018. The plane landed at Baghdad International Airport just after midnight, at 12:36 a.m., and the first to disembark were General Suleimani and his entourage. That was the backdrop for “Seven Days in May,” a thriller written by two Washington newspapermen during the Kennedy administration and made into a motion picture starring Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, and Kirk Douglas. Last week, he described General Suleimani as the “No. SEVEN DAYS IN JANUARY Siete días de Enero. Écoutez de la musique en streaming sans publicité ou achetez des CDs et MP3 maintenant sur Amazon.fr. Another thing the quality of the book is superb. Mr. Macron reached Mr. Trump on Sunday and emphasized the need for de-escalation. Various alternatives were discussed, some in Syria, some in Iraq. Cast . Hours after the strike, Markus Leitner, the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, headed to the Iranian Foreign Ministry for the first of two visits that day, according to a Swiss analyst. On January 24, 1977, right-wing gunmen staged one of the most violent days of the political transition in Spain. The only foreign leader who appeared in the know was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who had spoken with Mr. Pompeo before the attack and later offered a cryptic public hint hours before it took place. For the past 18 months, officials said, there had been discussions about whether to target General Suleimani. Seven Days in January The politicization of DOJ and FBI is coming to a head. Directed by. By the time tensions with Iran spiked in May with attacks on four oil tankers, John R. Bolton, then the president’s national security adviser, asked the military and intelligence agencies to produce new options to deter Iranian aggression. Appreciation over time. Madeleine Robinson. The story of that week, and the secret planning in the months preceding it, ranks as the most perilous chapter so far in President Trump’s three years in office. After seven days of saber rattling and fresh deployments, the immediate march to war had ended. Fernando Sánchez Polack. The message, forwarded to Washington within five minutes after it was received, persuaded the president to stand down. The first book-length account of the initial phase of Operation NORDWIND, the last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II, Seven Days in January is also a personal memoir by a key participant. All the Iranians had to do was come to him and they could make a deal, Mr. Trump said, according to a senior French official. From start to finish this is a gripping read of leadership and combat. If it was too sensitive for Congress, it was not too sensitive for Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host. American officials disputed that characterization and analysts doubted it was that explicit, although that could be how Tehran interpreted it. After seven days of sabre rattling and fresh deployments, the immediate march to war had ended. Ordered troops to remain in shelter in case more missiles came ©,. 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