Trump doubles down on striking cultural sites in Iran

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 01/06/2020

[SeekAndFind]

“We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame,” he said. “If there’s any hostility, that they do anything we think is inappropriate, we are going to put sanctions on Iraq, very big sanctions on Iraq.”

He added: “We’re not leaving until they pay us back for it.”

[C19fan]

We are not at war with the Iranian people but their rotten theocratic government. No reason to have cultural sites involved.

[dsrtsage]

Dear President Trump. Please do not even think of doing this.

[I want the USA back]

Lying article. He DID NOT propose bombing their cultural sites! Very clear, to anyone who understands English.

[Mr. K]

what would be a ‘cultural site’?

[C19fan]

Persians have a rich and long culture. There are 23 UNESCO World Heritage sites in Iran.

[z3n]

We are not at war with the Iranian people but their rotten theocratic government. No reason to have cultural sites involved.

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I agree with this sentiment. It would be a bad way to lose favor with Iranian people, many of whom would love to get out from under the oppressive regime, as well as with world opinion.... but.... I have to think there is a reason Trump is saying this. They must have intel Iran wants to hide/shield assets at cultural sites

[ocrp1982]

I read that the sites the president is talking about are not ancient cultural sites but, those erected by the Theocracy shortly after they came to power in 1979 and Iranians have been compelled to use in homage to the Ayatollahs.

[gandalftb]

Trump is creating a diversion by these statements.
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There are far more important targets, strategically.
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Likely the first strike would be to blind Iran, destroy all their radar sites and block their satellite transmissions.
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That would allow our armed drones to roam Iran. The Ayatollahs need to find ear plugs.

[Olog-hai]

The two lovely propagandists.

 

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Trump needs to hunt down Soleimani’s replacement and put a boot in his ass as well.

Next!

[C19fan]

Trump just needs to step down from this. There are plenty of military targets and weapons of mass destruction sites in Iran. Let the Iranian people once they are free from this theocracy take care of the Ayatollah stuff.

[null and void]

Very clear, to anyone who understands English.

That pretty much eliminates anyone at AP, Yahoo, or any MSM news desk.

And most who went to state-sponsored public school in the last 20 years.

[SunkenCiv]

• Trump Doubles Down On Targeting Of Cultural Sites In Iran
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[ClearCase_guy]

doing so could constitute a war crime under international law

I'm pretty sure the concern is really about military activity going on at cultural sites under the assumption that they are untouchable.

In my view, locating a nuclear enrichment facility in the basement of a historically important mosque ought to be considered a War Crime.

Muslims use human shields. I think they also use cultural shields. If we have evidence of this, we should be justified in taking out the site. We need to stop approach military matters with the idea that WE are constrained in a thousand ways and our enemies are not constrained at all. That's just BS.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Notice that the commie media says NOTHING when it comes to Iran threatening to bomb Tel Aviv and Haifa, that’s fine. Its like 2006 all over again when the media defended Hamas over Israel, some things never change

[Berlin_Freeper]

Iranian presidential adviser posts list of Donald Trump's properties

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RE: He DID NOT propose bombing their cultural sites! Very clear, to anyone who understands English.

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Here is the exact tweet:

"Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have.........targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD," he said. "The USA wants no more threats!"

What did he mean by Iranian culture? Is this equivalent to cultural sites?

[Olog-hai]

What is he thinking of doing?

It isn’t anything on the order of destroying King Cyrus the Great’s tomb. The Mullahs were actually planning to do that by putting it underwater by building the Sivand Dam.

Now if one of the targets was the Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, where the well that the 12^th Imam is supposed to climb out of is located, then I cannot help but approve. (The Mullahs just hoisted a so-called “red flag of revenge”, as the press is calling it, onto one of its minarets.)

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Trump needs to hunt down Soleimani’s replacement and put a boot in his ass as well.

The replacement according to Colonel Douglas McGregor is a younger man who has been Soleimani’s deputy since 1997, long enough to learn the terrorism trade.

We can be assured that he will not be as open in his travels as his former mentor. Most of his planning will be in some nondescript building or bunker somewhere.