All is well..
This from Trump late Tuesday night
All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! I will be making a statement tomorrow morning.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2020
Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq, the Pentagon said late Tuesday, in attacks Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said were retribution for the U.S. killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
The strikes on two bases—Erbil in northern Iraq and the large Al Asad base in western Iraq—began about 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, U.S. officials said.
A U.S. official said an initial assessment indicated there were no U.S. casualties at the Al Asad base, although there were Iraqi casualties.
No information from assessments at the Erbil base were immediately available in the immediate aftermath of the response from Iran..
As the news stations talked and night consumed the United States, a 5.0 quake just took place in Southern Iran..
#Earthquake M5.0 Southern Iran 7mins ago 8 Jan 02:20 UTC – report/info: https://t.co/20rZila2O0
— Earthquake Monitor (@EQAlerts) January 8, 2020
Perhaps all of this was foretold with strange devil horns appearing in the Persian Gulf!
Back before the new decade began, a solar eclipse took place in the various parts of the world, including the Middle East..
Elias Chasiotis had planned on capturing the solar eclipse on December 26 while on holiday in Al Wakrah, Qatar.
And he knew because it came at sunrise he had a chance to capture an even rare phenomenon – a solar eclipse combined with the light-bending mirage effects seen near the surface of the ocean.
He told BoredPanda: “I hoped that optical effects like inferior mirage would be visible and I was lucky enough to capture them.”
This type of mirage over the ocean is called Fata Morgana and occurs when rays of light are bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures.
It is named after the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay because it was once believed the mirages they were fairy castle created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their death.
Elias added: “I was worried that nothing would come out of the eclipse.
“However, when the sun finally began to rise, it looked like two separate pieces, some sort of red horns piercing the sea.
Perhaps a higher power knew of a great battle to come…
