The Plot So Far

The Exposition:
In Iran, the US overthrew their democratically elected president in 1953 and put a dictator into power, training his brutal police force, SAVAK. In 1979 the Iranians overthrew the dictator and religious fundamentalists took over, and have ruled since. The US began claiming in 1979 that Iran was 5 years away from having nuclear weapons. So far, they have been wrong.
In Iraq, the US backed Saddam Hussein in his rise to power. After the 1979 Iranian revolution, the US backed Iraq's attack on Iran and the 9 year war which followed, killing millions of Iranians and Iraqis. (The criminal Oliver North ran a guns-for-drugs operation out of the White House basement, though, which illegally supplied Iran with weapons, run through Israel, in return for money which he used to funnel to the death squads attacking the people of Nicaragua. Oliver North is still not in prison for these murderous and traitorous crimes.) In 1991, Saddam Hussein told the US ambassador, April Glaspie, that he planned to attack Kuwait to stop them from slant-drilling into Iraq's oil fields, and she gave him the go-ahead. The US then used his attack as an excuse to attack Iraq, killing thousands, and in the 90s maintained draconian sanctions on Iraq. Clinton's secretary Madeline Albright, explained that killing 500,000 Iraqi children seemed "worth it" to the US. However, in 2003, the US invaded Iraq and killed far more people. The US remains in Iraq, occupying military bases and an enormous embassy in Baghdad.

Recent Events:
Dec 29, 2019, a missile attack on a US-occupied military base in Kirkuk killed one American contractor. (The US refused to name the contractor for over a week, leading to widespread speculation that they were lying. They released his name Jan. 7, and it is now clear why they only referred to him as "an American" for over a week's worth of propaganda. His name is Nawres Waleed Hamid.)
The US responded by bombing Iraqi and Syrians 450 kilometers away, on the border of Iraq and Syria. They killed 32 Iraqis and injured 55 others. These were soldiers defending the border from ISIS.
Enraged, Iraqis stormed the US Embassy in Baghdad, setting fire to the reception area. They then left without harming any Americans. Trump is said to have called the leader of the PMU militia, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes, to thank him for helping to defuse the situation.
But on January 2, the US massacred a top general of Iran, who was a very effective fighter of ISIS, as he arrived in Baghdad to help negotiate peace with Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. General Soleimani had informed the US that he was arriving on a commercial flight to the Baghdad Airport on a diplomatic mission. The US used a drone missile, in a very cowardly act of murder. They also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes, and 6 other people.
First the US claimed that they had "evidence" that the general was making plans to "harm Americans", but they didn't actually have any evidence, so they changed the story to "he already killed hundreds of Americans". But only 89 Americans have been killed in all of Iraq and Syria since 2014, which is when ISIS rolled out and Soleimani began fighting them. So then they changed the story to "Americans killed in the original invasion of Iraq who we blame Iran for, and now switch the blame to General Soleimani". And they seem to be sticking to that story. They also told us that the murder would "make Americans safer" and then they told all Americans in the area, except for the cannon fodder, to leave immediately.

Then Pompeo went on TV and announced that they were done murdering and now wanted to de-escalate the situation.

General Soleimani was a hero in Iran (and in many other countries) and millions of people came out to mourn his death and to demand revenge.
The US media told Americans that people were dancing in the streets with joy, but that story didn't last, since thanks to social media (another reason our rulers want to censor it) people could see that the millions of people were not joyful. So then they told us that the people had been bribed with food to come out (see an Iranian ridicule that story). Clearly, though, there were not enough food trucks for the massive crowds, so the story the "legitimate" media has settled on is that Iranian Revolutionary Guards are going door to door with machine guns and forcing people into the streets to mourn. Sounds legit, legitimate media!
Meanwhile, terrorists in Idlib Province, were actually dancing in celebration, since the US had removed two of their biggest foes.

Last Sunday, in response to the assassination on their soil, the Iraqi Parliament voted to have all American military to leave their country. The US Marine commander in Iraq responded by writing a letter to them saying that the US respects democracy and national sovereignty and they were making plans to leave.

Joke is on him! Clearly, he listened to the classes at West Point on democracy and national sovereignty, but missed the wink-and-nod part.

Pompeo and a general safely ensconced in Washington came out within the hour and announced that the letter was not sent, OK, it was sent, but it was a rough draft, and it wasn't even signed (it was), and the US had no intention of paying any mind to democracy OR national sovereignty, and the 5,000 US troops sitting (like ducks) in Iraq were not going to leave just because Iraqis think that democracy means they get to decide what the US does in their country. The US troops were left in Iraq as human shields, which must make them very happy.

Last night, Jan 7, Iran responded to the provocations by launching missiles into an US-occupied military base in Iraq.
First, the US announced that 30 Iraqi soldiers had been killed, but no Americans. (So that's all right, then). But now they are saying that no one was killed at all.
Iran says they killed 80 Americans, but you know how they lie. You can't trust them, you can only trust what our rulers tell us.

US war mongers are screaming for more Iraqi and Iranian blood, cause that is how they do, but so far, it looks like cooler heads will prevail.