At Least 12 Killed in Pair of Terrorist Attacks in Iran

[dismal]

At Least 12 Killed in Pair of Terrorist Attacks in Iran

Armed assailants, including some disguised as women, stunned Iran on Wednesday with brazen attacks on the Parliament building and the tomb of its revolutionary founder, the worst terrorist strike to hit the Islamic republic in years.

At least 12 people were killed and 46 were wounded in the near-simultaneous assaults, which lasted for hours, clearly took Iran’s elite security forces by surprise and shattered the self-proclaimed image of calm in a turbulent region.

ISIS claims responsibility.

Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/...arliament-attack-khomeini-mausoleum.html?_r=0

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Agreed.

 

[Elixir]

At Least 12 Killed in Pair of Terrorist Attacks in Iran

Armed assailants, including some disguised as women, stunned Iran on Wednesday with brazen attacks on the Parliament building and the tomb of its revolutionary founder, the worst terrorist strike to hit the Islamic republic in years.

At least 12 people were killed and 46 were wounded in the near-simultaneous assaults, which lasted for hours, clearly took Iran’s elite security forces by surprise and shattered the self-proclaimed image of calm in a turbulent region.

ISIS claims responsibility.

Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/...arliament-attack-khomeini-mausoleum.html?_r=0

Big deal. As of June 8th, 2017, this year there have been 6,610 gun deaths in the US. But nobody - especially the alt-right - seems terribly concerned. They're far more afraid of dying at the hands of a terrorist, which is statistically an almost non-existent possibility.
Why are people so scared of something that isn't happening? You can thank that giant orange turd on Pennsylvania Avenue and his enablers.

 

[J842P]

At Least 12 Killed in Pair of Terrorist Attacks in Iran

Armed assailants, including some disguised as women, stunned Iran on Wednesday with brazen attacks on the Parliament building and the tomb of its revolutionary founder, the worst terrorist strike to hit the Islamic republic in years.

At least 12 people were killed and 46 were wounded in the near-simultaneous assaults, which lasted for hours, clearly took Iran’s elite security forces by surprise and shattered the self-proclaimed image of calm in a turbulent region.

ISIS claims responsibility.

Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/...arliament-attack-khomeini-mausoleum.html?_r=0

Well, they *are* meddling in the Arab world. So, I'm not sure what sarcastic point you are trying to make. But the Iranian-backed Shia militias have been the most effective force against ISIS in the region, except for maybe the Kurds.

 

[untermensche]

Everything ISIS does is blowback from the massive act of terrorism that led to it's existence as a threat.

The US terrorist attack of Iraq was the biggest act of terrorism in this century.

Nothing else comes close.

 

[Trausti]

Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East.

I dunno. ISIS really hates Shiites. A whole lot. A bunch. Shitloads of hate.

 

[untermensche]

Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East.

I dunno. ISIS really hates Shiites. A whole lot. A bunch. Shitloads of hate.

No US terrorist attack of Iraq no significant threat from ISIS.

 

[Ford]

I guess at this juncture it would be useless to point out that the Iranians are not Arabs.

 

[whichphilosophy]

At Least 12 Killed in Pair of Terrorist Attacks in Iran

Armed assailants, including some disguised as women, stunned Iran on Wednesday with brazen attacks on the Parliament building and the tomb of its revolutionary founder, the worst terrorist strike to hit the Islamic republic in years.

At least 12 people were killed and 46 were wounded in the near-simultaneous assaults, which lasted for hours, clearly took Iran’s elite security forces by surprise and shattered the self-proclaimed image of calm in a turbulent region.

ISIS claims responsibility.

Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/...arliament-attack-khomeini-mausoleum.html?_r=0

Blowback for fighting against ISIS which flourished arising out of the power vacuum created by the USA proxy war for regime change.

 

[prideandfall]

You can thank that giant orange turd on Pennsylvania Avenue and his enablers.

i rather think you have your cause and effect backwards here.

 

[whichphilosophy]

Everything ISIS does is blowback from the massive act of terrorism that led to it's existence as a threat.

The US terrorist attack of Iraq was the biggest act of terrorism in this century.

Nothing else comes close.

Each place where the US interfered in the name of regime change, it created a power vacuum where governments were either removed or lost territory. Nowadays ISIS and other groups fill this void. As history will show, no one is likely to be charges for US and allied war crimes in this respect.

 

[untermensche]

Everything ISIS does is blowback from the massive act of terrorism that led to it's existence as a threat.

The US terrorist attack of Iraq was the biggest act of terrorism in this century.

Nothing else comes close.

Each place where the US interfered in the name of regime change, it created a power vacuum where governments were either removed or lost territory. Nowadays ISIS and other groups fill this void. As history will show, no one is likely to be charges for US and allied war crimes in this respect.

Basically the US went over there and fucked the place over to the greatest extent possible.

Then left ISIS to fuck up the region some more.

Bring chaos to a region and then yammer like a banshee because there are some bad people there.

 

[whichphilosophy]

ISIS claims responsibility.

Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/...arliament-attack-khomeini-mausoleum.html?_r=0

Big deal. As of June 8th, 2017, this year there have been 6,610 gun deaths in the US. But nobody - especially the alt-right - seems terribly concerned. They're far more afraid of dying at the hands of a terrorist, which is statistically an almost non-existent possibility.
Why are people so scared of something that isn't happening? You can thank that giant orange turd on Pennsylvania Avenue and his enablers.

There are several forms of deaths in the US, such as gun deaths, heart attacks and old age, but that does not mean we should do nothing about preventing terrorism.

 

[Trausti]

I dunno. ISIS really hates Shiites. A whole lot. A bunch. Shitloads of hate.

No US terrorist attack of Iraq no significant threat from ISIS.

The proximate cause of ISIS gaining a foothold is the Syrian Civil War. The US had nothing to do with the start of that.

 

[untermensche]

No US terrorist attack of Iraq no significant threat from ISIS.

The proximate cause of ISIS gaining a foothold is the Syrian Civil War. The US had nothing to do with the start of that.

The US terrorist attack of the Iraqi people did not create the entity that grew into ISIS.

But the massive act of terrorism gave the organization it's top military leadership, weapons, money and plenty of angry people with destroyed lives as recruits.

Without this massive US terrorism ISIS probably does not grow into anything more than a very small threat and is probably long dead.

 

[dismal]

Everything ISIS does is blowback from the massive act of terrorism that led to it's existence as a threat.

The US terrorist attack of Iraq was the biggest act of terrorism in this century.

Nothing else comes close.

But there was a big Iran-Iraq war too. Surely they are still pissed about that?

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Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East.

I dunno. ISIS really hates Shiites. A whole lot. A bunch. Shitloads of hate.

But this makes it sound as if religion is involved when we know these attacks are blowback from meddling.

 

[LordKiran]

Big deal. As of June 8th, 2017, this year there have been 6,610 gun deaths in the US. But nobody - especially the alt-right - seems terribly concerned. They're far more afraid of dying at the hands of a terrorist, which is statistically an almost non-existent possibility.
Why are people so scared of something that isn't happening? You can thank that giant orange turd on Pennsylvania Avenue and his enablers.

There are several forms of deaths in the US, such as gun deaths, heart attacks and old age, but that does not mean we should do nothing about preventing terrorism.

typically, the money and effort expended on a problem should be proportionate to the size of the problem. Insofar as the US is concerned, near non-existent sounds about right.

 

[dismal]

There are several forms of deaths in the US, such as gun deaths, heart attacks and old age, but that does not mean we should do nothing about preventing terrorism.

typically, the money and effort expended on a problem should be proportionate to the size of the problem. Insofar as the US is concerned, near non-existent sounds about right.

So, terrorism should get, what, about 30X the attention and funding as far more non-existent problems like Police shooting unarmed Black people?

 

[funinspace]

Big deal. As of June 8th, 2017, this year there have been 6,610 gun deaths in the US. But nobody - especially the alt-right - seems terribly concerned. They're far more afraid of dying at the hands of a terrorist, which is statistically an almost non-existent possibility.
Why are people so scared of something that isn't happening? You can thank that giant orange turd on Pennsylvania Avenue and his enablers.

There are several forms of deaths in the US, such as gun deaths, heart attacks and old age, but that does not mean we should do nothing about preventing terrorism.

You should get another Captain Obvious award...no fucking shit we need to spend money trying to prevent terrorism. Who do you think, thinks otherwise?

And what makes you think that the US doesn't spend money hand over fist doing just that?

We even spend more than we did during those big bad scary days standing up to the USSR.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/intelligence-spending-classified-budget-snowden/

Unsurprisingly, the CIA, NSA, and reconnaissance satellites collectively account for nearly 80 percent of our total civilian-ish intelligence spending. Another $23 billion goes to “intelligence programs that more directly support the U.S. military.” That’s a total of $75 billion. Adjusted for inflation, Gellman and Miller say this exceeds our peak spending during the Cold War.

http://www.matthewaid.com/post/46076751997/fbi-facts-figures

On 9/11 the FBI’s annual budget was $3.81 billion. Today, the Bureau’s annual budget amounts to a whopping $8.12 billion.

On 9/11, the FBI consisted of 26,835 employees (11,122 special agents, 14,690 professional staff, and 1,023 intelligence analysts). Today the FBI consists of 36,074 personnel (13,913 special agents, 19,043 professional staff, and 3,118 intelligence analysts), up almost 10,000 people over the past decade.

 

[LordKiran]

typically, the money and effort expended on a problem should be proportionate to the size of the problem. Insofar as the US is concerned, near non-existent sounds about right.

So, terrorism should get, what, about 30X the attention and funding as far more non-existent problems like Police shooting unarmed Black people?

you have that backwards actually.