{"id":3653,"date":"2020-01-08T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T12:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2020-01-08T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T12:37:52","slug":"soleimanigate-soleimani-officially-possessed-diplomatic-immunity-which-makes-his-barbaric-assassination-a-far-graver-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3653","title":{"rendered":"SOLEIMANIgate: Soleimani officially possessed diplomatic immunity which makes his barbaric assassination “a far graver crime”<\/i><\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAJOR: Soleimani Had Diplomatic Immunity Making His Assassination a Far Graver Crime<\/span><\/h1>\n

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By Drago Bosnic and Joaquin Flores|
\nFort-Russ.com<\/p>\n

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To Athens and Sparta, Xerxes sent no heralds to demand earth, and this he did for the following reason. When Darius had previously sent men with this same purpose, those who made the request were cast at the one city into the Pit and at the other into a well, and told to obtain their earth and water for the king from there.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Herodotos 7.133.1<\/strong><\/p>\n

General Soleimani was acting under diplomatic authority and it bodes poorly for the U.S\u2019 ability to engage in diplomacy in the region for years to come. With a single act, the U.S violated not only standing and unspoken rules in place for countless centuries, but specific provisions in, for example, Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.<\/p>\n

This is not to say that such timeless rules have not been broken, but that in killing a diplomat one has declared war on the diplomat\u2019s homeland.<\/p>\n

The plot to assassinate Qassem Soleimani (now Shaheed Soleimani) \u2013 a man long described by Khamenei himself as a \u2018living martyr\u2019 \u2013 was born, we are informed, from US and Israeli intelligence.<\/p>\n

The American intelligence-controlled rag, The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>publicly revealed the plot in subtle terms, on January 2nd, as we will discuss below.<\/p>\n

Soleimani was involved in multi-lateral talks regarding pending legislation in Iraq involving Iraq\u2019s intention to end U.S military presence, and demilitarize its embassy. Indeed, despite Soleimani\u2019s assassination \u2013 and indeed perhaps propelled to certain success because of it \u2013 such legislation advanced to the next process of becoming law in Iraq earlier today.<\/p>\n

Worse still, Soleimani\u2019s diplomatic mission was being carried out as a result of a request made by the Trump administration to the Iraqi government. These are among the reasons that the US knew Soleimani\u2019s precise location at the specific time \u2013 and why the US in one fell swoop, lost all remaining diplomatic credibility.<\/p>\n

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Despite the relatively misleading use of the word \u2019embassy\u2019, the US had been using this and the \u2018green zone\u2019 around it as an unwelcome military base in the heart of Baghdad. Numerous credible reports detailed that ISIS\/Al Qaeda operatives and leaders even had use of the green zone. A decade ago, ISIS-type death squads would leave from the green zone at night to execute social, religious, and political leaders in Iraq opposed to the US occupation.<\/p>\n

Soleimani flew on a regular flight and was accompanied by nine men, including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iraq\u2019s Popular Mobilization Force. They traveled in three unarmed vehicles on a public road.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Soleimani was carrying a diplomatic message and this elevates him to the level of a diplomatic envoy. This compounds and greatly exacerbates not only the criminality of his assassination, but its consequences.<\/p>\n

The Americans came to know of Soleimani\u2019s exact whereabouts due to the public nature of his flight, combined with aerial intelligence \u2013 perhaps from a drone launched directly from the green zone itself.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s more \u2013 the NYT revealed to readers just a day before, what the US plan was.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was revealed in an analysis written by Steven Simon. At a glance, his NYT article about hypersonic missiles<\/a> is completely unrelated to the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, however, when you get to the 11th paragraph, the content strikes like lighting:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Moreover, hypersonics are a weaponized moral hazard for states with a taste for intervention, because they erase barriers to picking fights. Is an adversary building something that might be a weapons factory? Is there an individual in an unfriendly country who cannot be apprehended? What if the former commander of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Suleimani, visits Baghdad for a meeting and you know the address?<\/strong> The temptations to use hypersonic missiles will be many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note that the article was written on January 2, a full day before General Qassem Suleimani was killed by a US drone strike.<\/p>\n

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The article was written on January 2, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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The 11th paragraph, which revealed the US plan to assassinate the late Iranian General<\/em><\/p>\n

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