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Trump doubles down on going after Iran cultural sites: “They’re
allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way.”
Trump also tells pool he will slap Iraq with “very big sanctions” if they force US troops to leave. “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it.
Trump added: “If they do ask us to leave, if we don’t do it in a very friendly basis. We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.”
Attacking cultural sites would violate several international treaties and likely be considered a war crime

UN Security Council resolution "condemns the unlawful destruction of cultural heritage, including the destruction of religious sites and artifacts” cnn.com/2020/01/05/wor…
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Lindsey Graham told me tonight that he told Trump he had concerns with going after Iranian cultural sites: “I said we're not in war with the culture of the Iranian people. We are in a conflict with the theology -- the Ayatollah and his way of doing business.”
“I think our goal is to side with the people. Putting cultural sites on the table as a military target undercuts what we're trying to do,” Graham said. Did Trump push back?
"He just said: 'We all do all kind of kind of bad things.' But I said, 'Yeah I don't want to be like them”
Graham added: "The bottom line is I think the president saying, 'We will hit you hard' is the right message. Cultural sites is not hitting them hard -- it's creating more problems. We're trying to show solidarity with the Iranian people. Their culture is not my problem."
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Manu Raju
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NEW: Pelosi sends letter to colleagues: “This week, the House will introduce and vote on a War Powers Resolution to limit the President’s military actions regarding Iran.”
Pelosi: “It reasserts Congress’s long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days,” adding it’s similar to a measure Sen. Kaine introduced
Elissa Slotkin, a freshman Dem in a swing MI district who also is a former CIA and DOD analyst, will lead the effort. Pelosi again reiterated that killing of Soleimani “endangered our servicemembers, diplomats and others by risking a serious escalation of tensions with Iran.”
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Top military adviser in Iran says his country's response to the United States will certainly be a military response "against military sites...It was America that has started the war. Therefore, they should accept appropriate reactions to their actions.” cnn.com/2020/01/05/mid…
“The only thing that can end this period of war is for the Americans to receive a blow that is equal to the blow they have inflicted. Afterward they should not seek a new cycle,” Hossein Dehghan said
The only way Iran will negotiate with the US is if Trump is tried in Iran, the adviser tells @fpleitgenCNN. “There is only one way: first Trump must be tried in our own court, he should punished for the crime he committed. Then we could negotiate.”
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“They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. they’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way," POTUS SAID.
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Iran vs. US military capabilities:

Budget
Iran: $6 billion
US: $716 billion

Troops
Iran: 523,000
US: 1.3 million

Aircraft
Iran: 509
US: 13,398

Navy vessels
Iran: 398
US: 415

Nukes
Iran: not known
US: 6,185

Missile range
Iran: 3,000 km
US: Any place on Earth
World War III scenario

Iran's potential allies:

• Russia
• China
• Iraq
• Syria
• N Korea
• Lebanon

US allies:

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• France
• Israel
• UK
• Japan
• Canada
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2. Russia
3. China
4. India
5. France
6. Japan
7. South Korea
8. UK
9. Turkey
10. Germany
11. Italy
12. Egypt
13. Brazil
14. Iran
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18. North Korea

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