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+1 Very. Or, if they do criticize Iran, they’re screamed at for being “Zionists” even if they aren’t. I’m not a Zionist at all, but it’s very clear Iran is a sick, fanatical country. |
And so is Israel's government. It's bad guy against bad guy. The US should have stayed out of it. |
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Iran uses children as young as 12 as their “security.” Utterly depraved and sadistic.
The death of an 11-year-old Iranian boy reportedly in an air strike while manning a security checkpoint alongside his father in Tehran has thrown focus on a new initiative to recruit children into the security services. Last week, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official in Tehran told the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency that the organisation would enrol "volunteers" aged 12 and above. Eyewitnesses have told the BBC they have seen children, including some armed, in security roles in the capital and other cities. Foreign-based human rights organisations have also reported Alireza's death. The Kurdish group Hengaw said he was a "fifth-grade student" who was killed while present at a checkpoint in Tehran. Rahim Nadali, of the IRGC's Greater Tehran Muhammad Rasulollah Corps, said the new programme, known as Homeland Defender Fighters for Iran, would place children on various duties, including patrols and deployment at checkpoints. Recruitment, he added, could take place at mosques attached to the Basij militia in Tehran, and in city squares where pro-establishment rallies have been held. The Basij is a volunteer militia controlled by the IRGC, with an estimated one million members. It is often deployed on the streets to suppress dissent. Israel has said it recently targeted several Basij checkpoints. In a report on the recruitment campaign, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it was a "grave violation of children's rights and a war crime when the children are under 15". Holly Dagres, an Iran specialist at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank told the BBC that the use of children at security checkpoints "underscores the desperation of the Islamic Republic". She said it shows "how deeply unpopular they are with their own population that it is struggling to recruit adults to staff security checkpoints and is resorting to using children in support roles during wartime". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wqgjn7x89o |
WTF should anyone criticize Iran for? Iran is defending against an unjust war instigated by Israel and aided by our crazy POTASS. They are defending against our military being misused to kill their civilians. In the context of this war, the blame squarely sits sqaurely on Israel and Trump! |
On Israel and Trump or on Netanyahu and Trump? Or on Israel and the United States? Interesting you refer to Israel and not just to Netanyahu the way you refer only to Trump and not the entire U.S. uh huh |
Must be frustrating that nobody falls for your BS any more. |
DP. Nope. There’s plenty to criticize Israel about. The issue is that IRAN is also a bully and is run by authoritarian, corrupt, dangerous, fanatical mullahs who commit terrorism around the world along with their proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah (to name just two). Whenever this is pointed out, you and your crew will shout down the poster by calling them “Zionist ___ (insert slur)” and insisting they’re deflecting. That’s the very definition of disingenuous. Well, no. That’s not deflection. The Islamic Regime of Iran is a terrorist state, plain and simple. The world acknowledges this. You don’t have to be a “Zionist” or even Jewish to understand this; I’m neither. |
Sure, both Iran and Israel are bad guys. You good with that? |
DP. Seriously? Wow… unreal. |
Wait, we were told “there’s nothing to blame Iran for”! Another poster has insisted that “Iran is moral and ethical and cares about people”! You mean this isn’t true? Color me shocked. What a disgusting, repulsive group of terrorists, using their own children like that. |
THIS x infinity |
Sure, but the Israeli government is a sick, fanatical entity as well. That's the problem here. |
| This thread is about the war. Stop derailing it into anti this of anti that. |
Until recent years, Iran was way worse than Israel. Now, however, they're both awful. I supported helping Israel as long as there were rational people in government there who could plausibly work towards a two state solution, but Netanyahu is a God-awful man and his Cabinet is full of crazy haters. Rings a bell, doesn't it? |