When a rogue regime threatens to commit genocide against you every day, you have the right to defend yourself.
That's an utter propagandistic fabrication. Iran never threatened anyone even remotely with "genocide".
And a funny alleged "genocidal" motivation that is, when after 40+ years those supposedly harboring it wil not start out with the easiest targets immediately at their mercy, i. e. Jewish Iranian citizens residing on Iranian territory.
Instead, these are offered full religious freedom, regular civil rights and even a permanent member in Parliament (despite numbering no more than 7500 out of a total population of some 83 million), in addition to enjoying an above average social-economic status for the most part.
You might fool the pathetic Eurotrash EU with twisting of words and meanings.
He did not twist words. To suggest Iran is threatening others with "genocide" however, is a good example of word twisting.
The message has been very clear for the past 40+ years from the terror regime of Iran. They want to destroy Israel and export their "revolution" to Arab countries.
Firstly, the Islamic Republic is no "terror regime". Considering the role of terrorist organizations such as Irgoun or Stern Gang in creating the occupation regime in Palestine, a supporter of that regime would hardly be in a position to point fingers at others. The Islamic Republic stems from a popular revolution and was established on the basis of a free and fair referendum.
Iran seeks the destruction of the zionist regime exactly like the apartheid regime in South Africa was destroyed. This certainly involves no "genocide", and Iranian declarations do not leave any room for spinning since Iran's leadership has provided on several occasions precise explanations regarding their principled stance on the issue of Palestine, and as to what exactly they mean when stressing the need to remove the zionist regime.
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where you will fit these
- capture of iranian oil tankers
- iranian oil tankers attacked near jeddah?
- shot down of ukrainian jetliner killed 65 iranians ?
- Parchin explosion and Shiraz blackout
- Tehran clinic explosion
- Natanz nuclear enrichment facility explosion
- Khuzestan explosions
- Baqershahr explosion
- Tehran explosions
- Mahshahr petrochemical plant explosion
- Mashad explosion
- Ahvaz pipeline explosion
- Isfahan power plant explosion
even the Pakistan members of this board are more informed about the scoreboard.
Not really, since as Mohsen already explained most of the listed incidents were accidents and didn't result from sabotage.
There is also nothing out of the ordinary about them, including in the statistical sense. And including when compared to economically developed countries such as the US.
An analyst made a study showing that such incidents were more frequent the aforegone year:
See:
Part 2: Iran’s Fires and Explosions Are Not Unusual
By Tiziana Corda
Updated: August 4, 2020
Original: July 21, 2020
The fires and explosions in Iran in the summer of 2020 were not anomalies. Some were quite ordinary, especially in a country with a long record of neglected infrastructure and especially in summertime. Data retrieved from the archives of IRNA — used for consistency and because the news agency provides fairly consistent media coverage of such incidents–shows that these kinds of events occur frequently. In 2019, IRNA reported at least 97 fires or explosions — at power plants, factories, hospitals, research centers, vessels and arms depots — or more than one per day over 2.5 months. During the same period in 2020, Iran witnessed at least 83 incidents. In both years, the seriousness of the events varied significantly. (Neither year includes fires in green areas such as parks, forests and gardens.)
The only major difference between 2020 and 2019 was the number of explosions at military or nuclear facilities—notably at the Natanz nuclear facility on July 6 and the Khojir missile plant on June 26.
Related material with chronology of incidents: "Mysterious Explosions Rock Iran"
The following maps detail the site and type of fire or explosion assembled from IRNA data:
- fires and explosions in military/nuclear sites noted in black (and only happened in 2020),
- medical centers noted with a cross
- factories, power plants, public places are noted in dark red,
- and private residential units are in light red.
The fires and explosions in Iran in the summer of 2020 were not anomalies. Some were quite ordinary, especially in a country with a long record of neglected infrastructure and especially in summertime. Data retrieved from the archives of IRNA — used for consistency and because the news agency...
iranprimer.usip.org
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Iran shouldn't let its strategic calculations be based on what its most detrimental to Israeli interests.
Actually, considering how Iran's other powerful enemies - including and especially the US regime itself (as Biden's now famous remarks highlight once again), are subservient to the zionist entity, deterring Tel Aviv equals deterring the others.
That said, I do not subscribe to what it was you were responding to. The notion that Saudi Arabia or Turkey will be allowed or capable of acquiring nuclear weapons without US and Isra"el"i consent, and even against the will of the latter appears extremely unrealistic to me.
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At this point it's clear that our mullahs have only one red line, how much of our women's hair is covered by their hijabs. Hell, they don't even enforce this either.
Well in that case someone should contact zionist authorities in Tel Aviv as soon as possible and lecture them about how they are wasting their time and money carrying out assassinations of Iranian scientists, using their lobbies in the US and elsewhere to pursue "regime change" in Tehran, backing anti-IR opposition and "ethno"-separatist terrorist gangs, orchestrating the biggest propaganda and psy-ops campaign in human history to bring down those same "mullahs"...
If Iran was really that passive then there must be something magical about this passivity since it is obviously driving Iran's enemies mad (zionists in particular). Otherwise why would the latter unleash this much hostility (more than against any other country, actually) on the Islamic Republic?
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