By Tsarizm Staff | January 5, 2020

This timeline is the second part of a timeline that goes back to 2017, see the first part here [1]. It seeks to include details about rising US-Iran tensions and also Israel-Iran tensions.
2020
January 1
US deploys 100 Marines to Baghdad and sends 750 paratroopers to Middle East. Trump condemns attack on embassy and Pompeo says [2]US will secure its personnel, “The attack today was orchestrated by terrorists – Abu Mahdi al Muhandis and Qays al-Khazali – and abetted by Iranian proxies – Hadi al Amari and Faleh al-Fayyad. All are pictured below outside our embassy.”
To read more visit MECRA. [3]
This piece originally appeared on Tsarizm.com [6] and is used by permission.