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Tuesday, January 07, 2020 10:13:31 AM
Trump's Twitter threats against Iran cultural sites borrow from the ISIS playbook
"Trump’s Iran mess is getting worse. Here’s Adam Schiff’s idea on what to do about it."
Trump's mental condition could well be getting worse too.
Driven by fear, those who go to war with art always lose in the end.
Iranian women walk past the "Gate of All Nations" at the ancient Persian city of Persepolis near Shiraz in southern Iran on Sept. 26, 2014.Behrouz Mehri / AFP - Getty Images file
Jan. 7, 2020, 8:21 PM AEDT / Updated Jan. 8, 2020, 12:03 AM AEDT
By Melody Moezzi
With links
Being Iranian American is like being the child of divorced parents who refuse get along, not even for the kids. Growing up as one of these embattled children, conflict embedded in my DNA, I’ve never known a moment when my two homelands have been anything short of archenemies. Thus, what most of the world experiences as an external, geopolitical conflict, I and my fellow Iranian Americans experience as an internal, deeply personal one. These are our parents you’re talking about, and we love them both, even when we hate them.
But lately — between the American regime’s targeted assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and President Donald Trump’s ensuing threats, not to mention the Iranian regime’s murder and detention of innocent protesters — I can’t stand either one of them. Their fighting is literally keeping me up at night.
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But more and more, it feels like art is under attack, usually rhetorically but this week literally. On Saturday, Trump took a page from the ISIS playbook, tweeting a threat to commit cultural war crimes if Iran retaliated for last week’s killing of Soleimani. “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,” Trump tweeted. (Even Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper has noted that such an attack would, in fact, be a war crime.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/after-killing-iran-s-quassem-soleimani-trump-borrows-isis-illegal-ncna1111531
See also:
Iran officials hint at possible attacks on Trump properties
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=153149616
"Trump’s Iran mess is getting worse. Here’s Adam Schiff’s idea on what to do about it."
Trump's mental condition could well be getting worse too.
Driven by fear, those who go to war with art always lose in the end.
Iranian women walk past the "Gate of All Nations" at the ancient Persian city of Persepolis near Shiraz in southern Iran on Sept. 26, 2014.Behrouz Mehri / AFP - Getty Images file
Jan. 7, 2020, 8:21 PM AEDT / Updated Jan. 8, 2020, 12:03 AM AEDT
By Melody Moezzi
With links
Being Iranian American is like being the child of divorced parents who refuse get along, not even for the kids. Growing up as one of these embattled children, conflict embedded in my DNA, I’ve never known a moment when my two homelands have been anything short of archenemies. Thus, what most of the world experiences as an external, geopolitical conflict, I and my fellow Iranian Americans experience as an internal, deeply personal one. These are our parents you’re talking about, and we love them both, even when we hate them.
But lately — between the American regime’s targeted assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and President Donald Trump’s ensuing threats, not to mention the Iranian regime’s murder and detention of innocent protesters — I can’t stand either one of them. Their fighting is literally keeping me up at night.
[...]
But more and more, it feels like art is under attack, usually rhetorically but this week literally. On Saturday, Trump took a page from the ISIS playbook, tweeting a threat to commit cultural war crimes if Iran retaliated for last week’s killing of Soleimani. “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,” Trump tweeted. (Even Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper has noted that such an attack would, in fact, be a war crime.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/after-killing-iran-s-quassem-soleimani-trump-borrows-isis-illegal-ncna1111531
See also:
Iran officials hint at possible attacks on Trump properties
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=153149616
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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