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Pompeo: From now on we target Iranian decision-makers, not proxies
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the Trump administration has abandoned the previous US administration’s focus on countering Iranian proxy groups like Hezbollah and suggests the US strike in Baghdad that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was an example of the new strategy."We’re going to respond against the actual decision-makers, the people who are causing this threat from the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Iran," Pompeo says. He also says any target the US military may strike in Iran, in the event Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan,the abbreviation IRGCis a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either Shahor Führeror maybe both, and they hate retaliates against America for killing its most powerful general, would be legal under the laws of armed conflict. Pompeo was asked on ABC’s "This Week" about President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s assertion Saturday on Twitter that the United States has 52 Iranian targets in its sights, "some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture." The laws of armed conflict prohibit the deliberate targeting of cultural sites under most circumstances. The American Red Thingy notes on its website that the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols, ratified by scores of nations in recent years, states that "cultural objects and places of worship" may not be attacked and outlaws "indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations." Targeting cultural sites is a war crime under the 1954 Hague Convention for the protection of cultural sites. The UN Security Council also passed unanimously a resolution in 2017 condemning the destruction of heritage sites. Attacks by the Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and other armed factions in Syria and Iraq prompted that vote. "Every target that we strike will be a lawful target, and it will be a target designed with a singular mission ‐ defending and protecting America," Pompeo says. Posted by: trailing wife 2020-01-06 |
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