six Iranians taken in raid in Irbil

At first i read the AP story, and thought, "There! They're doing their damnedest to provoke Iran!"

Then i calmed down a little, and thought, "Oh, well.... maybe those Iranians were indeed masquerading as a diplomatic mission, and needed to be neutralized..." until i read the story again, and realized that the "foreign force" took down the Iranian flag that was flying over the building the Iranians were operating out of.

Whether the Pentagon says the building was a consulate or not, they simply cannot do that. That's a huge diplomatic breach, flirting with an act of war.

This is going to be very messy.