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The region has been under destabilizing pressure from the West since 1979. Iran has not invaded or subverted Iraq, Syria, Libya. Iran did not invade Afghanist
by eternalban 11y ago
The region has been under destabilizing pressure from the West since 1979.
Iran has not invaded or subverted Iraq, Syria, Libya.
Iran did not invade Afghanistan. (USSR, NATO).
Iran did not train and arm the Taliban.
Iran did not create ISIS (or whatever is their acronym du jour.)
This isn't fox news forum. This is HN.
- gadders 11y agoIran has funded numerous terrorist groups for years, ever since their revolution.
- 1024core 11y agoWho defines what's a "terrorist" ? Were the IRA terrorists? Were the Red Brigade? Shining Path? Castro & Co.? The list could go on. Why is it OK for the West to fund their buddies, but no one else is allowed to? 19/20 hijackers were Saudi (and more recently, so was one of the San Bernardino shooters, for all practical purposes). UBL was Saudi. Please point out to me terrorists with similar profiles who are/were Iranian. Iran's funding of Hezbollah can be legitimately seen as defending their own interests. Just like we fund scores of militias all over the region.
- 13thLetter 11y ago>Iran's funding of Hezbollah can be legitimately seen as defending their own interests. Which part of assassinating Lebanese politicians, kidnapping and torturing soldiers, starting a war with a nuclear-armed state, and randomly firing unguided rockets into civilian towns can be legitimately seen as defending Iran's own interests?
- gpvos 11y agoWell, first time anyone's accused me of that. And yes, I think the West is indeed worse than Iran in this regard.