Iranian hometown response to Soleimani's death

[babylonsister]

Séamus Malekafzali
@Seamus_Malek
After a small initial gathering early this morning in Kerman, Qassem Soleimani's hometown, there is now a massive funeral crowd lining the streets, all wearing black.

Link to tweet

[dem4decades]

1. Wow. Massive. An indication of what's ahead i'm ahead.

[Marengo]

2. Am I supposed to feel bad about this?

[abqtommy]

3. I guess how bad a person feels is in direct proportion to whether they believe that Iran can target

the U.S. with their submarine-launched missiles. Have a happy!

[Marengo]

10. Not sure if serious

[abqtommy]

15. I am serious and I feel bad...

[Marengo]

18. Well, in that case, I feel bad for you.

[LuckyCharms]

4. I would.

Because of the number of new terrorists created with this recent event.

I would feel very bad.

[Marengo]

9. The Iranian regime is a terrorist organization, Soliemani being a significant actor. His fate is...

Well deserved.

[LuckyCharms]

13. Of course it is.

But I prefer to look at the bigger picture.

Spilling his blood may provide some temporary satisfaction, but in the longer term, it will cause a massive amount of deaths to both those who are innocent, and those not so innocent.

Sometimes it is preferable to control a danger, rather than eliminate it.

You and I do not know what the worse solution is...leaving him alive or killing him.

But I think we both know that it had to be explained to Trump who this guy was, and what he represented. And I'm pretty sure that our protection played absolutely no role in Trump's decision...no role at all.

[Marengo]

14. Oh, so because other nut jobs might get mad, we're supposed to ignore one of their commanders...

Who’s actively engaged in the killing of US personnel and planning to kill more. Soleimani was behaving in the manner of an enemy combatant, and you have absolutely no knowledge his justified neutralization will result in “.massive amounts of deaths” to the innocent. As for “not so innocent”, not sure I see a problem with that.

[LuckyCharms]

19. And you have no knowledge that it won't result in that.

Go get 'em.

[Marengo]

22. My experience and education has taught me making such declarations is unwise.

[LuckyCharms]

29. Did your experience and education teach you

how many civilians died in the Iraq war?

[Marengo]

31. And now you may cite or link to where I stated on DU that the invasion, occupation, and resulting...

Destabilization of Iraq would NOT result in considerable civilian casualties. As a bonus, you can also cite or link to where I stated I SUPPORTED the invasion of Iraq to begin with. I’ll be waiting, in the interim may I offer a rag for wiping the saliva from your foot. Providing you have the integrity to remove it.

[LuckyCharms]

32. You seem nice.

[Marengo]

34. Uh huh, as I thought.

[LuckyCharms]

35. Good thinking!

[Marengo]

37. I'm waiting...

[LuckyCharms]

39. For what?

[Marengo]

42. Oh please, that's lame...I'm still waiting

[LuckyCharms]

43. I'm writing a short story about

this one time I shit my pants in my pickup while driving home a freshly cut Christmas Tree.

[LuckyCharms]

47. I do, and I don't think it's good to make fun of my

disability.

[BannonsLiver]

26. You had probably never heard of him before today.

[tenderfoot]

33. The people giddy about his death seem as horrible/blood thristy as they describe him being.

Like when some lunatic commits a heinous crime and some respond with "hang him" "kill him" "DEATH PENALTY!!!" "castrate him" "hang, draw and quarter" "break out the guillotine!"

[Marengo]

36. And you assume that why?

[coti]

46. Because your arbitrary justifications for violence show that you're likely just looking for a fight

anyway.

Not to mention your aggressive, ill-considered approach to posting on DU.

[bearsfootball516]

27. That's the same mindset that got us into the Iraq war.

[Marengo]

40. Another irrelevancy passes off as profound.

[LuckyCharms]

50. Exactly. n/t

[coti]

48. With provoking a larger conflict, not his death, being the point anyway

Hell, in the unlikely event Iran resists the urge to retaliate against this, Trump will just find another way to provoke them.

[LuckyCharms]

49. Very true. n/t

[safeinOhio]

16. The Iranian regime is a direct

result of regime change and the taking of Iran's oil, along with installing the Shah.
One countries terrorist organization is anothers freedom fighters.

History is worth study.

[Marengo]

20. If you suggest the regime and its black shirt nut jobs represent freedom in any objective sense,

our world views are entirely incompatible. Oh, and anyone who tries to pass off pseudo intellectual cliches as profound probably shouldn’t suggest others don’t have an adequate understanding of history.

[safeinOhio]

21. Take a trip back to the 1950s

and study what the US and England did. Iran had a very popular elected President that was overthrown by us and a brutal dictator was installed. They don’t hate us for our freedom. They hate us for taking theirs along with the oil.

[Marengo]

25. Oh, so Soleimani should have been left alone to kill more US personnel cuz Mohammad Mosaddegh?

Don’t assume I don’t know anything about that period of Iranian history.

[Demsrule86]

56. There are plenty of 'leaders' who don't represent freedom in any sense...but we do not have the

right to go to a sovereign country and kill them. Trump should be up on murder charges.

[rainy]

53. Yes!

[Tiggeroshii]

52. ?

Care to back that up with.. anything?

[Johonny]

24. The argument has been that part of what keeps the ruling class in power in Iran

is not their popularity, but the west's ability to spark nationalism within Iran. The president just made a general that was not well beloved by his own people, a martyr. It's the classic mistake the west has made for years...

[Marengo]

30. Soleimani's martyrdom doesn't change the fundamental nature of the regime. Will Iranians...

Who oppose the regime suddenly embrace it because someone not well beloved by the population (although to be fair I have head the opposite is the case) and a central actor carrying out the agenda of said regime is delivered to his just reward? I don’t know, I’m not in any position to offer a definitive answer, but I must wonder.

[coti]

44. Well, most don't really feel bad for Saddam, either.

On the other hand, the hundreds of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis, the thousands of dead American soldiers, the trillions of dollars wasted, the needless distraction and stress, and our soiled good name...I feel a little bad about those. Still.

[Botany]

5. And soon a group of American tourists or business people or students or military will be on a ...

... bus, or on a train, or aboard a cruise ship, or @ a restaurant, or someplace else and be attacked because Trump
started this crap after talking to Putin.

[babylonsister]

6. Or a plane?

Yep. Typical asshat, doesn't think anything through.

[Botany]

7. Blowback and asymmetrical warfare is coming.

BTW the French warned us of the blowback before bush and Cheney started their
Iraqi war so Dick Cheney could make a shitload of money. And so ISIS was born.

[Judi Lynn]

8. He doesn't care. He always can send more people to die trying to end the war he started. n/t

[MarcA]

41. +1,000 n/t

[Marengo]

11. Right, because such a thing has never happened before, and never would happen if not for Trump

[LanternWaste]

17. Thankfully, no one at all (other than yourself) is arguing or implying otherwise.

Bit of a mote in your eye, eh?

[MarcA]

38. Agreed. The result of more pseudo tough guy acting

and much of the MSM and populace will give him and his ilk a pass, if not
outright praise.

[dalton99a]

12. COMING SOON: Qassem Soleimani Martyrs Brigade, specializing in suicide attacks against Americans

And videotaped executions of captured/kidnapped Americans

[jeffreyi]

23. All wearing black, and all mad as hell.

[frogmarch]

28. Has security been increased for trump? nt

[IcyPeas]

55. I was thinking anything with trump's name on it....

is a target and there are quite a few of them around the globe

[lapfog_1]

51. Trump will likely tweet about this being much smaller than his inauguration!

[underthematrix]

54. #TraitorTrump ordered the assassination of an Iranian govt official who is

revered in the MIDDLE EAST. He was head of an organization similar to our C.I.A. This means American govt officials are at risk.