Iran Situation

[oncemoreuntothejimbreech]

(01-17-2020, 12:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The United States has classified the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
https://www.state.gov/designation-of-the-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps/

• On April 15, the IRGC will be added to the State Department’s FTO list, which includes 67 other terrorist organizations including Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Kata’ib Hizballah, and al-Ashtar Brigades.
• The IRGC FTO designation highlights that Iran is an outlaw regime that uses terrorism as a key tool of statecraft and that the IRGC, part of Iran’s official military, has engaged in terrorist activity or terrorism since its inception 40 years ago.
• The IRGC has been directly involved in terrorist plotting; its support for terrorism is foundational and institutional, and it has killed U.S. citizens. It is also responsible for taking hostages and wrongfully detaining numerous U.S. persons, several of whom remain in captivity in Iran today.
• The Iranian regime has made a clear choice not only to fund and equip, but also to fuel terrorism, violence, and unrest across the Middle East and around the world at the expense of its own people.
• The Iranian regime is responsible for the deaths of at least 603 American service members in Iraq since 2003. This accounts for 17% of all deaths of U.S. personnel in Iraq from 2003 to 2011, and is in addition to the many thousands of Iraqis killed by the IRGC’s proxies.
• This action is a significant step forward in our maximum pressure campaign against the Iranian regime. We will continue to increase financial pressure and raise the costs on the Iranian regime for its support of terrorist activities until Tehran abandons this unacceptable behavior.
  

What an individual here or there considers them does not change that simple fact. And I've mentioned numerous times: It does matter have Iran thinks. They have attacked innocent Americans for a number of reason in the past. Should we consider those reasons Acts of War?

But just like Fred and let you and your common sense keep thinking this was an Act of War.

And the Iranian government has classified CENTCOM as a terrorist organization and the killing of Soleimani an act of terror.

So what’s this mean? The Trump administration is just as bat shit crazy as the Iranian leadership. Interestingly, the United Nations hasn’t designated either organization a terrorist group. Why? Because they’re military organizations.

Enough with the bullshit already.