Iranian border guards kill 6 Pakistanis

[SQ8]

This is starting to get annoying.

How many more do you wish dead monsieur before it gets MORE than annoying??

 

[Arian]

I would reiterate what Iranzamin has said.

1. These people were on the Iranian soil. so Iranian laws can be applied to them and because they were ordinary citizens and not Pakistani officials I doubt Pakistan could condemn Iran for that based on legal grounds. the same is true if the same case happens to Iranian civilians crossing into the Pakistani border and I say that from the perspective of law.

2. Some people think that Iranian guards should first arrest them and put them on trial. That's not how we do it. It's our little rule for the world. If you cross the Iranian border and you don't follow the instructions of the Iranian border guards, it means you have ill-intentions. When you're dealing with drug smugglers you don't go and talk to them like "Hello, May I check your identifications please?" and then if they were smugglers you would go on and say "sorry, but according to our laws you should come with us to the police station". That sounds more like a joke. Iranian border guards warn them first, if they don't head the warnings, they'll be shot down. It's just as simple as that.

3. We have lost more than 20,000 innocent soldiers in the last decades fighting with drug smugglers. Most of those soldiers were ordinary people who were serving in the Iranian military for an obligatory 20-month period. (It's actually a much shorter time for these soldiers because they are serving in a 'dangerous' zone). We don't want to risk our soldiers' lives. No country wants to risk the lives of its forces. Drug smugglers should just forget about coming to Iran if they like to stay alive or else they'll be confronted because they are not welcomed.

What bothers me the most is that some people want to make these drug smugglers look innocent civilians who have unintentionally crossed the border and evil Iranian border guards have shot them down. An innocent civilian will head the instructions of border guards if they like to stay alive. An innocent civilian, even it's highly unlikely that he/she crosses the border unintentionally, will know that border guards can shoot them. I, as a civilian, know that if I cross into another country's territory they can bust me or even shoot me down. If some people still don't know that simple fact, I think they should be taught about it on the media.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

One solution. Join hands with Israel and Nuke Iran.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Iran is a great nation i am sure Iran will get support from India if Pakistan starts a full scale attack.

 

[CypressHill]

One solution. Nuke Iran

Cos nukes are the answer to all of Pakistan's problems! No? "Peaceful Civilian"

 

[kas786]

Can you explain to me why the American hikers were spared the wrath of Iranian bullets from the trigger-happy Iranian border guards? The fact of the matter here is that, being Pakistanis, and with perhaps darker skin, you guys consider us inferior to you. No way in HELL would you ever have killed those 6 men were they Americans.

 

[canadian icehole]

Can you explain to me why the American hikers were spared the wrath of Iranian bullets from the trigger-happy Iranian border guards? The fact of the matter here is that, being Pakistanis, and with perhaps darker skin, you guys consider us inferior to you. No way in HELL would you ever have killed those 6 men were they Americans.

Or perhaps the Americans surrendered peacefully; not give the border guards a reason to open fire.

 

[Arian]

Can you explain to me why the American hikers were spared the wrath of Iranian bullets from the trigger-happy Iranian border guards? The fact of the matter here is that, being Pakistanis, and with perhaps darker skin, you guys consider us inferior to you. No way in HELL would you ever have killed those 6 men were they Americans. Cause then perhaps you would get bombed to the grave.

No, that's not true. It has nothing to do with skin color. Iranian Baluchis look exactly the same as Pakistani baluchis, with the same skin color because they are from the same race.
It's not about racism. Racism has no place in Iranian mind set. It's because we're sensitive about drug smugglers. We're fighting with drug smuggling for years and we've heavily invested that we can uproot it or at least heavily suppress it. Also, we've lost tens of thousands of our soldiers for this purpose. We have a right to keep our borders safe. Don't we?

About the Americans, the diplomatic stand off between Iran and the west is more about politics and playing chess. It's not about border security and drug smuggling brother.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Iran is a great nation i am sure Iran will get support from India if Pakistan starts a full scale attack.

And you(india) will loose support from Israel by helping Iranians. By the way, your two face approach, At many times you voted against Iran in United nation.

 

[kas786]

So according to this argument - your stupid border guards that lurked into our borders, we should've killed them in cold-blood if we were suspicious of their intents? BUT no, instead we pardoned them. It's quite disappointing, really. At this point in time in Iranian history, the last thing you guys need is another enemy country, and especially one that's right beside you. Use your BRAIN.

/out

 

[Safriz]

Its not clear if Iranians came under fire or not...If the border guards came under fire then it is understandable that they opened fire..But the report says that the "Smugglers" had cattle on their vehicles and that's hardly anything dangerous or Drug like.

 

[Arian]

So according to this argument - your stupid border guards that lurked into our borders, we should've killed them in cold-blood if we were suspicious of their intents? BUT no, instead we pardoned them. It's quite disappointing, really. At this point in time in Iranian history, the last thing you guys need is another enemy country, and especially one that's right beside you. Use your BRAIN.

/out

If they hadn't surrendered and followed your border men instructions, yes. It's a norm everywhere. Also, take this into mind that they were Iranian border guards, they are considered Iranian forces, they are not ordinary citizens. You can be sure that another country's border guards are not drug smugglers. right?
Pakistanis are mostly sensitive about these issues because they think Iranians are doing this only because they are Pakistanis or they have enmity or racist mindset against them. It has nothing to do with such issues.

I'm sure the Iranian border men had a reason to open fire. If you say one or two Iranian border guards are crazy and racist to shoot at innocent civilians I may accept, but surely not all Iranian border guards are like that. So if this kind of incidents are repeated over and over it's because Iranian border guards feel the necessity to take action.

 

[Mosamania]

Racism has no place in Iranian mind set.

I would like to challenge you in this statement. So far the most racist people I have ever met online were Iranian. The moment they know you are an Arab you should brace yourself for the most derogatory insults known in history.

 

[Kaniska]

And you(india) will loose support from Israel by helping Iranians. By the way, your two face approach, At many times you voted against Iran in United nation.

Dude...we support Iranian in this incident because we are victim of these kind of illegal smuggling in Indo BD border..
So we understand Iran's situation more....

 

[Safriz]

I would like to challenge you in this statement. So far the most racist people I have ever met online were Iranian. The moment they know you are an Arab you should brace yourself for the most derogatory insults known in history.

I think he meant to say that Iranians did not kill those people only because they were Pakistanis..there were other factors involved..