It is seen as extremely likely that the US will put Iran’s Revolutionary
Guards on the US list of foreign terrorist organizations at some point
in the next week. Iran, however, is likely to retaliate, according to top officials.
Iranian MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, the head of their national
security committee, says that Iran would respond to the move by putting
the US military on the Iranian government’s own “blacklist” of terror
groups, right next to ISIS.
In both cases, the practical impact of being added to such lists is
likely to be minimal, as the US and Iran have so few economic ties after
decades of acrimony that almost no one is liable to have to sever any
business ties.
The biggest deal is the rhetorical move by the Trump Administration,
which is likely to use a terror designation as another talking point as
they continue to threaten military action. In that regard this is a
continuation of the State Department claiming Iran had killed over 600
US soldiers during the occupation of Iraq.
Iran mirroring already an idiotic move doesn’t make them any more smarter. So unless they are ready for a direct confrontation, this is just stupid.
You made your own point. They are ready.
I ton’t think so Amon.
I was in Iran last year when Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal, yet it didn’t stop the Iranian people being friendly and welcoming to me, as they always are.
By any definition the US military is a terrorist organization….let’s see, what was the stated goal of “shock and awe” ?
You have that right, Dave Sullivan. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11; yet, Cheney and his Trotskyist buddies ordered the “shock and awe” war crimes to topple Saddam Hussein from power. What the US military did was bomb civilian areas from the air, while ground forces invaded the same areas and terrorized civilians by bursting into their homes. The bursting into homes and dragging whole families away was a Bolshevik tactic in the former USSR. That was their “shock and awe”.
Dragging families away is much older than bolshevism, and Russia for that matter.