On Point: Soleimani's Fatal Arrogance Reveals a Fool's Contempt for His Enemies
http://www.strategypage.com/on_point/2020010722562.aspx
by Austin Bay
January 7, 2020
Understand these facts first and foremost: Qassem Soleimani was a career state-sponsored terrorist whose financial, ideological and strategic sponsor was the Iranian theocratic dictatorship the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini founded in 1979.
Another fact: In 1984, the U.S. State Department placed Iran on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. If 1984 sounds like an Orwellian omen, 1983 was arguably more apt. The 1979 assault on and occupation of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by Khomeini's zealots constituted an attack on sovereign U.S. territory and ought to rate as terrorism. Holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days while screaming, "Death to America," in my view crossed the criminal terrorist line. However, the Iran-sponsored 1983 bombing of Beirut's U.S. Marine barrack was definitely terror. Lebanese Shiite Iran proxies -- Lebanese Hezbollah being their nom de guerre -- were identified as the culprits.
Soleimani's status as a career terrorist and the ayatollah regime's career commitment to financing, training and using terrorists are absolutely essential contexts for understanding the latest clashes in the long war on America that Khomeini proclaimed in 1979.
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