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Phydeaux -> RE: Netanyahu bribed Republicans to kill Iran peace deal (1/11/2016 10:25:35 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MariaB
Why is it, that the word "terrorism" holds such double standards? What is this “designated foreign terrorist organization”? who decides who is the terrorist and who is fighting for a reasonable cause? Don’t tell me it’s the West who decides isn't it!.
Iranian fraction groups are opposed to ISIL and have been fighting and supporting groups fighting ISIL so what makes them terrorists when they are fighting the same enemies we are?
If Russia continues to support Assad, should we be calling Putin a terrorist? If I support Palestine over Israel, would that make me a terrorist?
We all know that the planes that flew into the World Trade Centre was an act of terrorism but when the US shot down an Iranian passenger jet killing everyone on board http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/07/remembering-iran-air-flight-655.html the word "terrorism" didn't cross anyone's lips.
You can't just drop a bunch of names and claim they were killed by terrorists acts because some of those named clearly were not. In fact most of those you named were killed or assassinated during revolutionary turmoil during an uprising. Some were caught up in the bombings during the Iranian Revolution, others in the anarchy that comes with that sort of revolution and some were bumped off by government agents similar to our MI5 or CIA. I could give you an equally long list of names our governments suspected of bumping off; does that make our governments terrorists? or just corrupt and somewhat formidable?
Iran have adamantly denied anything other than moral support towards Palestinian groups in Gaza, Lebanon and Hizballah. Do we have definitive proof of Iranian armed involvement? I mean other than the government website.
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We all know that the planes that flew into the World Trade Centre was an act of terrorism but when the US shot down an Iranian passenger jet killing everyone on board http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/07/remembering-iran-air-flight-655.html the word "terrorism" didn't cross anyone's lips.
Thats because words have meaning. Shooting down an aircraft is not terrorism.
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terroism: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
It is when you hope to inspire fear that an act becomes terroristic.
As for cites for iranian terrorism I gave several earlier, and freedom dwarf gave a link to wiki quoting numerous instances of it. Its not hard to find using google. Although I'm surprised you don't know anything about Iranians murdering their own population, considering it was front page news what 5 years ago?
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If Russia continues to support Assad, should we be calling Putin a terrorist?
No. Same answer as before. Terrorists inspire terror. Putin is merely projecting Russian power. Well, thats not true, he's not merely projecting russian power. He's also expelling muslim jihadists from dagestan, chechnya and other predominantly muslim rusian areas - and killing them in syria.
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