There is some false info. Iraq had carried out far more raids and attacks than Iran before officially invading in September 1980 than Iran had. Saddam's own intel reports conclude in 1980 that Iran was in no shape for conducting any "offensive" plans into Iraq.
Saddam's justification for war is no different than Israel's false pretexts for its 1967 war against Egypt and Syria. This was no "pre-emptive strike" as there were no Iranian plans for war, nor were they in any shape for war. Iran was economically and militarily disadvantaged, as well as diplomatically isolated after the revolution, as well as much of the war.
This is visible in Iran's order of battle in 1980 (outnumbered by Iraq in personnel and serviceable equipment) and disparity in arms purchases compared to Iraq through the war (Iran ~$24b USD; Iraq ~$80b USD, 1980. refer to Pierre Razoux's Iran-Iraq War Appendix F).
Iraq had expansionist aims in Iran, declassified archives from the Saddam era prove that. Iraq coveted Iran's Southwest. Saddam in his recordings prior to official start of war wanted to advance as far as Qasr-e Shirin to seize it. Rhetorically, in Ba'ath ideological propaganda and trinkets, such as in their logos or maps, swathes of Iranian land are claimed. Revolutionary Iran had no such nationalist/expansionist ideological claims on Iraqi territory.
There was no smoking gun incident Iraq could point to and say "this XYZ definitively caused the war", as Iraq had participated in escalatory moves, such as sponsoring ethnic separatists among the Kurdish, Azeri, Baluch, Arab communities of Iran; or various cross-border attacks/air-raids. This was no one-sided affair, Iraq shared responsibility for escalations in tensions, in addition to being the direct initiator of full-scale war in 1980.
Briefly returning from my hiatus to just observe: all leftcoms should be required to pass a basic literacy and IQ test before they are allowed to tweet.
🧵THE MYTH OF “JEWISH” BOLSHEVISM DESTROYED - MASTER THREAD
Many of you are probably familiar with the widespread claim circulating on twitter, which claims that the Bolshevik revolution was Jewish.
This lie collapses upon minimal scrutiny of facts.
This thread will PUT TO REST the fairy-tale once and for all.
From now on, show it to anyone who repeats these claims. If they continue to assert it, be assured they are lying to you on purpose.
'Anti-Woke' Right are a bunch of Zionist grifters.
All they want is to go back to 20 yrs ago. 20 yrs from now they'll idealize today's corrupt society too.
I am a COMMUNIST. I seek to return to the FUNDAMENTALS of mankind's HISTORY as delivered by the prophets.
That means FORWARD.
That means WIPE OUT THE DEBTS.
That means JAIL THE BANKERS.
That means LAND for the LANDLESS
That means PROTECTION for the WEAK and ELDERLY.
That means GUIDANCE for the YOUTH.
That means DRUGS OFF the STREETS.
That means KNOWLEDGE for ALL
That means FOOD for EATING, HOMES for LIVING, MEDICINE for HEALING, PRODUCTION for MANKIND - NOT MAMMON!
FREE PALESTINE, FREE AMERICA, AND DOWN ZIONISM, DOWN WITH THE RIGHT WING GRIFTERS!
"To free 'God' from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of beings. To free silence from its idolatrous dishonor would require nothing less than to free the word 'God' from the Being of beings."
— Jean-Luc Marion.
Heidegger: "Memory is the gathering of recollection. It safely keeps within it...that to which at each given time thought must be given before all else."
Socrates: "It is no wonder that soul should call to remembrance all that she ever knew about virtue, and about everything."
The media calls the men dying for their homeland terrorists. I call them patriots.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Palestinians are only guilty of reciting, in their acts, the Roman poet Horace:
"It is sweet and noble to die for one's country."
Henry Ford was one of the 20th century’s most dangerous anti-Jewish propagandists, and he also made cars. "Making sense of the current moment of mounting anti-Semitism requires examining Ford’s outsize part in its origins," @DanielSchulman argues: https://t.co/wLiRh1j3lj
🇮🇷🇻🇦NEW: Iranian President Ibrahim Raesi held a phone conversation with Pope Francis
The president criticized the silence of the international community regarding the crimes of the Zionist regime and considered it against the teachings of Abrahamic religions.
The president expressed his appreciation towards the position of the Catholic Church and the Vatican, and emphasized the need of religious unity in the face of Zionist agression.
For Maximus "the act of communion is the summary of the entire economy of salvation, because the incarnate Logos gathers human nature within itself without absorbing it or altering its essence. Communion allows for participation in divine light."
- Agnieszka Świtkiewicz-Blandzi
@NotMarlbotka@Absurd_Ruka Bashir was playing a double game with Israel - he tried to rescind on some promises after he was put in power, when he saw that the extent of Israeli influence was still being limited by Syria. This was also why Israel had hedged with Haddad.
@OneArabianFaris Facts don't care about your feelings NIGGA.
Syria supported a defensive force in 2006 that afterwards won popular elections and became the legitimate government of Lebanon.
YOUR ARGUMENT FAILS.