The Most Expensive War in History: Yemen!

[Hydration]

lol....

Syria is a civil war wher arabs killed arabs, later persians came with ther secterian agenda. After that is was international, Yemen is a example of that secterian export product of Persians. You destroyed and killed a country for your secterian ideollogy, first Syrian and after that Yemen.

dont forget lebanon

 

[SalarHaqq]

lol....

Syria is a civil war wher arabs killed arabs, later persians came with ther secterian agenda. After that is was international, Yemen is a example of that secterian export product of Persians. You destroyed and killed a country for your secterian ideollogy, first Syrian and after that Yemen.

There is no such thing as a "sectarian" Iranian agenda. The Islamic Republic's policy is pan-Islamic - the exact opposite of sectarianism. I challenge those who claim otherwise but obviously lack factual knowledge of the subject and have visibly been misinformed by anti-Iran propaganda, to show me one single statement made by a high ranking Iranian official that is of sectarianist nature or that defines a sectarianist geopolitical agenda. I'm not asking for two, only for one such statement... because there is none. And this here is the actual view of the Iranian leadership on the topic:

https://www.al-islam.org/articles/imam-khomeini-islamic-unity-sayyid-ruhullah-musawi-khomeini

https://english.khamenei.ir/news/868/The-Leader-s-View-of-Unity-Between-the-Shia-and-the-Sunni

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2014/10/iran-khamenei-sunni-shiite-ghadeer.html

Policy-wise, Iran is on the record for lending considerable support to the following Sunni Muslim groups and states, including by extending military level assistance to them (arms supplies, training, etc):

* Palestinian Resistance movements - all of them (Hamas, PIJ, PFLP etc). Iran being the only state actor on earth brave enough to arm Palestinians against zionist occupation, and to incur the heavy political costs stemming from it, namely incessant rabid hostility from the zio-American empire and its many cronies and clients.

* Bosnian Muslims. Again Iran tops the list of countries arming them during the 1990's civil war.

* Afghan mujahidin battling Soviet occupation, including Sunni Muslims (Persian-speaking Tajiks etc).

* Kurds of northern Iraq against "I"SIS. As admitted by their own officials, the head of Iran's Quds Force, martyr Qasem Soleimani immediately rushed to their aid when nobody else would respond to their calls for help.

* Taleban fighting US occupation of Afghanistan. One of the leaders of the Taleban, Mollah Mansour, was granted asylum by Iran and staid there for years.

* Sudan, an ally of Iran during the presidency of Omar al-Bashir. It was Iran which established Sudan's local defense industries.

This is without mentioning the innumerable Sunni Islamic movements and parties Iran has backed at the political level since 1979, from Morocco and Tunisia all the way to the Philippines.

As for "destroying" countries, neither of the cited wars was started by Iran. In Syria, Iran came to assist a staunch and loyal ally (the only Arab state to stand by Iran over the entire duration of the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988) which was fighting off NATO- and zionist-backed terrorist insurgents, and with which Iran had signed a mutual defence treaty. Yemen for its part had been involved in no less than 12 wars since 1962. A chronically unstable state, unfortunately, and this has nothing to do with Iran.

Neither in Syria nor in Yemen has Iran pursued any "sectarianist" agenda. In Syria, the Damascus government backed by Iran is a secular one, it therefore doesn't concern itself with inter-denominational religious polemics. Prior to the civil war, the administration of Bashar al-Assad opened salafist learning centers, the famous Hafez al Assad schools for teaching the Quran all over the national territory. Also, the business elites of Aleppo, Syria's economic capital, are mostly comprised of Sunni Muslims. President Assad's own wife is a Sunni Muslim. The majority of troops in the Syrian army have been Sunni Muslims.

Whilst in Yemen, the movement backed by Iran, Ansarallah, also has Sunni partners, namely those from the Yemeni national army. Nor is Ansarallah's ideology even remotely sectarianist.

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dont forget lebanon

Lebanon had been torn by civil war for four long years before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran? Whose polity and society have been divided along communal lines at least since the French mandate (and actually before that as well)? Whilst Hezbollah, the political party backed by Iran, is the only armed movement never to have turned its guns on the Lebanese national army and is in fact best known for kicking out foreign occupiers from their country.

So frankly it's inaccurate to claim that Iran "exported" sectarianism to Lebanon, a nation deeply affected by communalism for more than a century, or that Iran initiated any of the wars which gripped that country.