Comment by bigDinosaur
6 hours ago
Iran is the source for the Islamic justification for suicide bombing (suicide is forbidden in the Quran and thus 'innovation' was needed to justify it). That alone puts immense amounts of blood on their hands. They invented this justification for their own religious and geopolitical aims (getting the US out of the ME). They are interventionists who want to be the spiritual centre of Islam, they are the opposite of passive actors in their region.
The bigger question is whether the other Gulf states (that we ally with or support) are any better and whether or not they deserve sanctions too. The West is clearly not in a place within the ME to preach morals, but that doesn't mean countries like Iran don't deserve sanctions.
>Iran is the source for the Islamic justification for suicide bombing (suicide is forbidden in the Quran and thus 'innovation' was needed to justify it). That alone puts immense amounts of blood on their hands. They invented this justification for their own religious and geopolitical aims (getting the US out of the ME).
Pure lie. The inspiration for suicide bombings comes from the Israeli and their fascination for Samson, and the Irgun praised suicide attacks for decades after their dissolution. The "Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners" was an Israeli proxy in Lebanon who started suicide bombings before the Hezbollah. It was quickly adopted by all sides - including secular nationalists - in the Lebanese civil war because it worked. Sunni and secular nationalists don't listen to Shia scholars.
>They are interventionists who want to be the spiritual centre of Islam, they are the opposite of passive actors in their region.
They are an oppressed minority in all of Islam, the majority Sunni have always wanted to exterminate all of them. Iran is the only Shia country, their only safe refuge, similar is Israel for the Jews. You tell disgusting lies. If anything, it is the Saudi - the very good friends of the USA - who are the expansionists and interventionists.