but name one Iranian who blow himeself up to hurt any civilians anywhere in the globe.
It could be true, but Iran is accused of supporting Hezbollah. For some people they are freedom fighters; for others they are terrorist.
He fortunately does not have control of the Armed Forces by the constitution and he does not have his finger on any trigger point.
I don’t know if this is comforting. As far as I know, the # 1 in Iran is the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI. I think that his position is even more severe than Ahmadi.
About “wipe” remarks see my points above. Also believe me when I say no one in Iran especially the elite have no confusions about Israel Nuclear capabilities. But in Israel current and former governments there were those who for a long time advocated use of WMD’s not as a retaliation but as a first strike option. Even if that is not the policy and those are sheer lies, no nation can afford to be defenseless and have no similar retaliation capabilities in this region. We need to and we will defend ourselves regardless of the rhetoric of the day with any technology that suits our defensive needs. Politicians and governements come and go but the strategic equations remain the same regardless of the “hot-air” spoken by any sides politicians.
Even if Israel has nukes, even if they could be ready to use them pre-emptively, no Israeli govt. vowed to ‘wipe-out” Iran. They don’t have a declared policy to destroy Iran, or even countries that atacked them (Syria). OTOH, Iran (correct me if I’m wrong) has stated as one of its goals to destroy Israel. In these conditions, Israel is not a threat to the very existence if Iran. Iran is (or at least is perceived) as a threat to the existence of Israel.
The 2,500 years is just not about Perspolis or ancient Persia. There are 1,400 years of Islam and previously other religions. And there are many great cultural and scientific ahievements by Iranian scholars during the Islamic period that I am very proud of both as an Iranian and as a human.
I included Islamic period in those 2500 years. However, prabably many of the great men that Persia gave to humanity in 1400 years of Islam, would have been in trouble these days 🙂 : Avicenna is considered the “father of modern medicine” and the greatest philosopher the Islam produced, but he liked wine and women! In Omar Khayyám case, one cannot say if he was greater as a mathematician or as a poet; but his skepticism make the religious officials to oblige him to make a pilgrimage to Mecca in order to prove he was a faithful follower of the religion! Not to mention that in his poems he praised a joyfull style of life (again, wine &women included!) Those two men would have a harsh time in today Iran…
By the way there is no such thing as “Islamic guards” in Iran, We have “revolutionary guards of Iran”
I believed that the offcial name of the pasdarans is Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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