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© 2019 AFPSuicide attack on Iran Revolutionary Guards bus kills 27
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JeffLee
Of course it does. I'm sure the Sunni-Shite conflict that has raged for 1,500 years has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Foreigners make the best scapegoats.
Wolfpack
So both the suicide bomber and the people blown up are both martyred for Islam?
Actually Iran has military and paramilitary personnel in multiple countries in the region including Iraq and Syria using the same terrorist tactics against citizens of other nations.
commanteer
An attack on a military target is not terror. If the bus was only for the Revolutionary Guards, then it's a legitimate military target. The Guards are hated in Iran for good reason.
Anonymous
@Yubaru
Good point. Governments don’t ordinarily issue a declaration of war against the citizens of their country. They just shoot them.
An estimated 24-26 Iranian demonstrators were killed by security forces in the demonstrations of 2017-2018. By a strange coincidence the “terrorists” did the government one better.
Jimizo
I suppose this could mean getting killed by terrorists is a good thing. It goes without saying that you must have the correct version of the true faith before being slaughtered for it to be a good thing.
starpunk
the Iranian regime is a totalitarian theocracy and an exporter of terrorism, and the Jaish al-Adl by its use of suicide terror is just as stupid as they are.
Anonymous
@JeffLee
@Toasted Heretic
The Byzantines were probably first. They lost the rich province of (greater) Syria in 636, just four years after The Prophet’s death and without doubt wanted it back.
commanteer
Of course they could, if they were at war with them. Are you unaware of what is happening in Iran? Unaware of the history? Those very same Revolutionary Guards came into power themselves through the same sort of violence. What goes around comes around.
Yubaru
If you notice I wrote "within their own borders". Expand the argument to western nations and any attack against security forces, police included would then, by the posters comment, would be justifiable as a military target and not a terror attack.
Hence my response that I dont think people want to go down that slippery slope.
What "westerners" call a terrorist is referred to as a "freedom fighter" in some parts of the world, and vice versa.
Yubaru
Really? So when a country executes a criminal for their actions you call them "weak-minded" for doing so?
nandakandamanda
Wolfpack, Jimizo, it is hard to agree with you without getting moderated, so I will disagree instead. One side in the conflict must be superior to the other, so the superior side will go to heaven. There, fixed it.
englisc aspyrgend
Those who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
starpunk
Please see my post above.
Yubaru
Iran, last time I checked, was not at war with anyone within their own borders.
I don't think anyone wants to walk down this slippery slop here. Would you then say that any people who attack any security forces, anywhere in the world, could justify their actions as attacking a legitimate military target?
theFu
People aren't usually executed for non-violent crimes, therefore the state didn't start it.
Sometimes the only viable response to violence is violence because the people who started it cannot be talked out of harming others.
theFu
Killing is the solution for weak-minded people, if they started the violence.
Toasted Heretic
I don't doubt it. But these long-simmering disputes can be stirred up by outside influences as well.
Ironic, innit?
Toasted Heretic
Horrible. No doubt the world's biggest exporter of terrorism, the US, has a hand in this, somewhere.