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ck4829

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6. The fact that our government calls it "terrorism" when Iran is involved is a factor

Reply to purple_haze (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 22, 2025, 02:31 PM

Jun 2025

I mean, it’s not “terrorism” when the FSB is poisoning dissidents in NATO countries or when the Wagner Group is doing human rights abuses in Syria or Mali.

The fact that those two groups are not Iranian but Russian is a key reason why.

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