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Do the missiles Iran has been raining down on other countries for decades not count as WMDs?

• jl6 8mo ago
  No. There’s a definition from the UN here if you’re interested: https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/UNHQ/9626F6CEB2A92C9B85256A0000078872 https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/UNHQ/9626F6CEB2A92C9B8...
• oa335 8mo ago
  No. “ A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people” https://www.dhs.gov/topics/weapons-mass-destruction https://www.dhs.gov/topics/weapons-mass-destruction.
  • mhb 8mo ago
    As many like to say, quantity has a quality of its own.
    • oa335 8mo ago
      Orwellian semantic games…Iran didn’t have a WMD, so now we will modify the definition of WMD.
• sebastiennight 8mo ago
  AFAICT, not by any commonly accepted definition of WMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction#Definitions_of_the_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction#Def...
• subscribed 8mo ago
  Oh, that would be quite a spin. We can probably see it in the Faux News soon.