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DEFENDERS
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I hope that we all have been educated enough
to realize the fact that terrorism is more a political
issue than a religious one. Middle East has long
been the battle field of the world, or better said,
of the west. Terrorism and the conflicts that
are currently taking place in the region are the
result of western canalizations. A brief look at
the history would convince anyone that west has
been a real threat to the peace and security of
both Middle East and the world as a whole. And
yet, they say Iran is the threat to the international
peace and security for the weapon that they think
it is developing. The last time Iran invaded
another nation was in 1738. Since independence
in 1776, the U.S. has been engaged in over 53
military invasions and expeditions.
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Truth is,
any Iranian nuclear activities, real or imagined,
is as a result of American hostility towards Iran,
and not the other way around.
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Since the attacks on the Twin Towers of the
World Trade Center in 2001, the world entered
Middle East:
The Victim of Terrorism
By:Helyeh Doutaghi
ODVV Expert
to a new history and the ‘’war on terror’’ was
officially established:
Before 9/11 because of the human rights
disasters from 1980 to 2001 in the world (i.e.,
Rwanda genocide, Bosnian genocide), human
rights issues were the center of international
politics. The events of 9/11, however, made
a shift in the dominant political discourse of
antagonismand ‘’terrorism’’was nowrepresented
as the threat to Westerns values including human
right.
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As Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the
attack of 9/11 the relationship between terrorism
and Middle East was founded and hence the
pretext for “war on terror” found substance.
The invasion of Iraq on 2003 was the very first
step taken by the US to fight the ‘’terror’’ which
lasted until 2011. The invasion of Afghanistan
(in order to find Ben La Dan) was another attack
on a sovereign state with the same justification
Although there are no agreements on definition
of terrorism neither among states, international