In a pre-taped CNN interview that aired on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said President Donald Trump’s drone strike on high-ranking military leader Qasem Soleimani was an act of “state terrorism.”
Michelle Goldberg nails it.
You’d think Iran would be an expert on the subject, but…
Trump’s skin is so, so thin that everyone can get under it. Remember during the campaign the claim that he “lacks Presidential temperament?” We were warned.
We’re not lawless like President Trump.
Good
It’s weird to me that Iran could be the one that gives trump the final push off the cliff.
But, we live in interesting times, and yes I know that’s actually a curse.
Stephen Colbert said the same thing.
Too many people think that if the bomb has decals and a serial number, it’s not terrorism.
Soleimani was evil and his death should not be mourned. That said, he was the equivalent of our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Director of homeland Security combined - a high ranking authority in a government with which we are not at war. So imagine our response if Iran assassinated our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. There is a reason we do not target high ranking officials of foreign governments. This can only lead to an escalation of conflict, one that no one can “win.”
Could you please stop saying it’s “considered” a war crime? It’s considered a war crime because it’s a war crime.
Has Melanoma chimed in yet about Donnie bullying Iran?
The Iranians have long memories for US meddling in their internal affairs. While most Americans couldn’t identify Mohammed Mosadegh, most Iranians, the vast majority of whom were not alive in 1953 (including Zarif), most assuredly can. They don’t take this business lightly, nor, as @crewman6 notes above, will they. They’ve been accused (rightfully so) of state-sponsored terrorism enough to know it when they see it.
When Iran sounds more reasonable than the United States the world is in a lot of trouble.
Agreed. Describing this assassination as the US killing an Iranian General wildly understates the impacts. Most civilians in the United States woukd be hard put to name any US General who has not been in the cabinet.
This is as though Eisenhower had been Vice President after D- day and had been assassinated.
I do not believe that most people thought, in 2013, that we would be in this predicament. That it happened and that it still persists–even though most of the country knows that the man causing the predicament (1) came to office by fraudulent means and (2) has continued to break laws–says more, to the rest of the world, about who we are as a society, than about Trump.
Trump is a mentally ill, evil man.
He has support. Without that support, he is nothing.
Well, criminal in chief, so much for taking the laser focus off impeachment, now you’ve got something else hanging over you that is much worse. What will you come up with to make America think you’re a star again? I can only imagine game plan #56.
Iran, home of endless unhinged rants about the various great satans, is now playing the role of the adults in the room. And the US intelligence community is standing up for civil liberties.
I don’t think we can even see the back of the looking glass any more.
As least some of us listened.
I’m guessing Iran won’t be needing a draft after this masterful recruiting stimulus. Thanks Donnie.
With respect to foreign affairs, we are in the place we feared after the 2016 election — although I am sure most of us thought the crisis would involve North Korea. (Domestically, we hit that place a long time ago with the Muslim ban, lack of funding to Puerto Rico, evisceration of clean air and water regulations, separation of and caging of migrant children, etc.)