Iranians protest the Ayatollos and the Democrats cannot stand it.

Bernie takes on Biden and mourn as the Iowa caucus's approach,

and Nancy Pelosi finally decides to hand impeachment charges to the Senate.

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burning the United States embassy and engaging in months of terror attacks.

Soleimani is killed, and then the Iranians respond by firing off a couple of missiles from Iran into Iraq.

They hit a coalition air base.

It did, in fact, according to CNN, hit the sleeping quarters of troops, which suggests very, very strongly that Iran had called up Iraq and said, get your guys out of there because what we don't want is to break another one in Trump's red lines. Because if we violate another one of Trump's red lines, our rinky-dink Navy could be at the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz by this time tomorrow. But in the middle of that little exchange, it wasn't really an exchange because the United States

didn't fire anything at Iran, but in the middle of that missile firing by Iran, a plane took

off from Tehran within two minutes.

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