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Terrorists have attacked the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum and Iranian parliament in two nearly simultaneous incidents:
There have been multiple attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to state media. A woman was arrested after a bomb attack and shooting spree wounded two people at the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum south of the city Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. The news agency reported that a second attacker is currently surrounded by security officers.
That attack occurred at the same time as a shooting in the Iranian parliament, in which at least three people were injured after an attacker stormed the building in central Tehran, according to state-run Press TV.
Also at Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, and Tehran Times.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @05:47PM (15 children)
Are you sure? It might be a bunch of Christian white supremacists!! Why would you be so quick to assume that DAESH is responsible? Just because they say so, doesn't make it so. /sarcasm
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday June 07 2017, @05:54PM (2 children)
Well, stats are pretty clear that Americans kill Americans, Europeans kill Europeans, and Middle-East people kill each other.
Statistically, a young Iranian raised in a Muslim family is likely the culprit of a crime in Tehran.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:49AM
Exactly. I kill me! [youtu.be]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:45PM
"Americans kill Americans, Europeans kill Europeans, and Middle-East people kill each other."
And everybody kills the Jews
But during national brotherhood week...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday June 07 2017, @06:50PM (7 children)
Look, buddy, we know people who are ideologically in lock-step with you are killing americans every month. Your sarcasm is unwarranted.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:47PM (6 children)
Unwarranted, you say? Did you check with NCIS?
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:59PM (5 children)
Unwarranted I say. Plenty of white supremacist terrorist fucks.
And they're all pretty much the exact same kinda person as you, only more willing to take action. Your ideology sucks, runaway. It sucks so hard.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:13AM (4 children)
"same kinda person as you"
Your ignorance is showing.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:34PM (3 children)
No, I've seen your posts. I don't mean "conservatism", even if that's descended from "mostly wrong" to "active trying to be wrong about things" over the past 30 years. I mean this identitarian worldview, hinged entirely on flagellating visible differences with other cultures as inherent inferiorities of those cultures, coupled with a fundamentally authoritarian attitude, when given the "right" authorities.
It's indistinguishable except in implementation.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:18PM (2 children)
Actually, I don't think I've ever characterized Islam as "inferior" to our way of life. Islam actually has some things going for it, that seem superior to our way. What I have stated, repeatedly, and very clearly, is that Islam is incompatible with the western way of life. Islam is anathema to every judicial system that western man has experimented with, beginning with the Code of Hamarabai, and continuing on through current US Code.
In Islam, there are no rights. There is only submission. Submit to the will of Allah, as interpreted by the leading imams of the time. Submit, or die.
Take the worst of the worst that Christianity has ever been accused of, subtract all of Christianity's best traits, and you have Islam.
People think that the Christian inquisitions were a bad thing. In Saudi Arabia, the inquisitions continue, daily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GsG4y7JoQY [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IEH0BLuDbI [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:26PM
Yeah, fine, I get it, your flavour of identitarian exclusionism is totes special and unique to you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:45PM
Gotta agree with ikanreed here, you have a lot of decent viewpoints and quite a few good arguments from time to time; but then you sneak in with some weirdly pro-authoritarian garbage from time to time. My guess is it is latent brainwashing from your stint in the military, plus your older generation simply seems to take a lot of authoritarian beliefs for granted. So you probably have no idea and think its just normal. Can the fish see the bowl?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:56PM (3 children)
What I wrote was:
Were I sure that they were responsible, I would have written "ISIS did it." When I use the word "claim" I'm indicating doubt.
-- https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/claim [oxforddictionaries.com]
According to one of the stories, they provided a video. If you mean to imply that I ought to have assumed that they did it, and the fact that they claimed to have done the attack was not noteworthy, I disagree. They didn't claim to have done the recent attacks in Afghanistan; as far as I know no one has. So I thought that the claim of responsibility was noteworthy.
I'm unsure what you're hinting at with the mention of "a bunch of Christian white supremacists." Christians in Iran are a small minority, and many of them are Armenian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Iran#Current_situation [wikipedia.org]
I'm unsure whether you deem Armenians white. In the last century, Iran was occupied by the Russians, the British, and the Soviet Union. The first two would qualify as white, Christian countries, I'd say. Perhaps you're ridiculing me because I've submitted stories about the white supremacy movement in the United States? I've also submitted stories here about violence that appeared to have been done by Muslims; the editors didn't deem them newsworthy.
/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=20424 [soylentnews.org]
/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=13387 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by calmond on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:41PM
This kind of crap is exactly why I don't post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:49PM (1 child)
So we often here calls for more stories, so why would your two stories not be news but this one is? Or some of the other lame stories TMB submits in order to troll people? I've had stories that didn't make it in that seemed like easy wins. What gives?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday June 09 2017, @01:21AM
An editor sent me a note about the Jakarta story. The note has disappeared now (my messages disappear more quickly than they ought to) but I recall that it was to the effect that that sort of attack was a fairly typical occurrence for that part of the world. As for the story about the Dhaka attack, I don't recall clearly, but I think there was a note saying it was rejected because the event happened in Bangladesh. I've also gotten a note saying that too many "political" stories were being submitted; that note has also disappeared, but the sentiment was expressed in a comment by one of the editors:
-- /politics/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=18256&page=2&cid=473669#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
When I submitted several stories that weren't about science or technology, they were removed from the queue without being explicitly rejected. I thought it was a bug, but NCommander explained that it's an option the editors have, which isn't normally used to indicate rejection:
/meta/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=19640&page=1&cid=516941#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]