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Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

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Re: Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

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Post by whoareyouthen »

gcanyon wrote: post #3

No matter how absurd the situation becomes, no matter how engaging the videos are, we should never be fooled into thinking Iran are the good guys. This is an unfortunate, ill-conceived war, but that doesn't clean Iran's hands.

You destroyed their country on a basis of Israel's messianic ambitions and your voracious capitalists infinite greed. This is the truth.

And now you are blabbering about "good/bad guys"..

You are just totally nuts, and your place is on the same bench where nazi officials sat after 1945.

Re: Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

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Post by whoareyouthen »

tim333 wrote: post #33
newspaper1 wrote: post #9

Iran has nothing on Israel when it comes to interfering with other nations. This is simply propaganda and missing the elephant in the room (on purpose of course).

I've never heard of Israel trying to kill overseas critics? As opposed to terrorists who try to kill Israelies.

Palestinians say that Israel deliberately kills palestinian journalists, poets.

I lived in Israel, and know Israel well enough to believe this is true.

Re: Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

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Post by spwa4 »

cyanydeez wrote: post #36
spwa4 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The moral difference here is, of course, that one side has institutionalized child-rape for religious reasons and has imams play pimps for thousands of children forced into prostitution to get raped. The other side has a bunch of criminals that sometimes succeed in rape and the most famous of whom is now dead rather than confess. Both are bad. One is a disgusting large-scale moral failing in the religion they follow…

Is it better if the rules are written in ink or money?

If written in ink it happens on massive scale.

If written in money it happens almost never. For obvious reasons.

Judge for yourself.

Re: Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

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Post by [deleted] »

newspaper1 wrote: post #39
applicative wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The only people annexing Lebanon are the Zionists. wtf is a zionist and when did they annex lebanon? The Assads actually presupposed annexation of Lebanon, or just denied the partition, during their occupations. Their opinion about Palestine was the same: its' the Levant, it's Syria, its capital is Damascus; there is no distinct Palestinian or Lebanese people we are all Syrian Arabs, Levantine Arabs. (The theory ha…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_Southern...

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Re: Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

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Post by firefax »

tyjen wrote: post #4

Reminds me of a recent story about a Norwegian teenager who traveled to the UK to perform a hitman job for the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organized crime group linked to Iran. The teenager received instructions from someone called "Agent 47." EDIT: Article for reference, https://archive.ph/xNSr2 .

Can you give me the original link? I know all about archive dot ph.

Re: Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

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Post by firefax »

newspaper1 wrote: post #9

Iran has nothing on Israel when it comes to interfering with other nations. This is simply propaganda and missing the elephant in the room (on purpose of course).

>Iran has nothing on Israel when it comes to interfering with other nations. This is simply propaganda and missing the elephant in the room (on purpose of course).

I'm so tired of this geopolitical whataboutism.

Once at tech policy happy hour, someone got in my face and demanded I affirm that Israel has a right to exist.

They recoiled as if they'd been physically struck when I shot back "Israel has a right to exist and not do war crimes... just like Saudi Arabia".

(I don't give a fuck if you have dip-lo-mat-ic imm-un-itt-y. I've slapped the soul out of someone in Farragut Square before, and as I sit here looking at the data, I've concluded I'll probably do it again, don't you ever put your fucking hands on me.)

There is no reason to treat the leaders of Israel any different than the leaders of countries like UAE, Qatar, etc.

(And if it was up to me, we'd send all these fascist motherfuckers on a free trip to The Hague.)

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