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2019-08-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran puts US think tank FDD on its target list.

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Posted by 3dc 2019-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Thanks for bringing this up 3dc and TW.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-08-25 00:54|| 2019-08-25 00:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The mullahs scream, "The light! It burns!"

Posted by Phinens Dingle9259 2019-08-25 00:57|| 2019-08-25 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 3dc did all the work, Alaska Paul. I only added a little comment afterward.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-25 01:06|| 2019-08-25 01:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't know anything about the FDD, but this article touched a nerve (no pun intended). I would suggest the UK's defense establishment also be looked into.

Germany should investigate chemical weapons-related sales to Syria

Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-25 01:13|| 2019-08-25 01:13|| Front Page Top

#5 As one 'follows the money' yet another inconvenient truth revealed:

How Western companies sneakily sold chemical weapons components to Syria and Iraq

Firms in the U.S., France, India, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Malaysia, Italy, Singapore, the USSR, Japan, China, North Korea, the two Germanies, Thailand, The Netherlands, Austria, and the U.K. all were involved in dual-use sales to Iraq, Libya, or Syria. After U.N. inspectors got access to Iraqi records following the 1991 Gulf War, the U.N. didn't publicize who had sold what … in order to avoid embarrassing leading governments.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-25 01:43|| 2019-08-25 01:43|| Front Page Top

#6 the U.N. didn't publicize who had sold what … in order to avoid embarrassing leading governments

And there you have the nub of the continuing problem.

Posted by AlanC 2019-08-25 07:47|| 2019-08-25 07:47|| Front Page Top

#7 For those who don't remember this is: FDD's Long War Journal

Posted by 3dc 2019-08-25 09:56|| 2019-08-25 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Dennis Ross
@AmbDennisRoss
That the Islamic Republic is threatening a think tank, FDD, is unbelievable. Even those who are frequently defensive of the regime should be reacting to this and making it clear this is intolerable and should it in any way act on the threat justify its complete isolation.

Posted by 3dc 2019-08-25 14:00|| 2019-08-25 14:00|| Front Page Top

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