Iran Situation

[Belsnickel]

(01-15-2020, 01:59 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yeah, but it does add pretty important information into the "is he a terrorist or is he an official" equation. 

He personally was labeled a terrorist through 3 different Presidents, he personally armed/trained/led forces to kill hundreds of US troops, and he targeted civilians. His people trained and armed bomb makers to distribute IEDs everywhere, including against civilian targets. He did all of this in Yemen, Iraq, and Syria. He was helping Assad as they used chemical weapons on their own citizens.

He went well past foreign official territory.

This isn't an "either/or" situation; he was both. What you're not taking into account in your dismissal of his role as a foreign official is that everything he did was done as his role in the IRGC. He was a state actor, not a higher-up in AQ or IS. That is an important distinction.

It should be noted, though, that targeted killings even of terrorists in this manner that have no official state affiliation are highly questionable from a legal standpoint. Groups like AQ and IS just don't have representatives in the UN.