State dept as ordered the departure of non-emergency USG employees from Iraq,

[holdover]

U.S. Embassy Baghdad‏Verified account @USEmbBaghdad 5h5 hours ago




@StateDept has ordered the departure of non-emergency USG employees from Iraq, both at the Embassy in Baghdad and Consulate in Erbil. Additional information on this alert can be found on the U.S. Embassy website at U.S. Citizen Services.

U.S. Embassy Staff to Leave Iraq as Iran Tensions Mount

Trumps putting the pressure on. Nothing says "" Im not fucking kidding"" like pulling your personnel from the embassy's.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

This is not a good sign.

Either part of an elaborate bluff and posturing or it's being done with the expectation of hostilities.

 

[holdover]

A little of both I think, Israel got hit pretty hard last week with rockets that were most likely made in Iran, I think Trump is telling Iran that they better cut it out.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

I wonder if we'll ever find out what this "threat" is?

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

I wonder if we'll ever find out what this "threat" is?

My understanding is.... It started a week or two ago when Israel was mass bombarded by missiles and rockets.

Intelligence picked up Iran moving a significant amount of missiles around and pre positioning them to hit us bases in the area and made some sort of threat.

I believe Iran also claimed they were going to resume enrichment again.

Iranian proxies have attacked international shipping and oil tankers and an oil pipeline ND oil platform.


That's what I've read. Not sure if there is more to it.