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Is Iran a Greater Threat Than ISIS?

Is Iran a Greater Threat Than ISIS?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 37.5%

  • No

    Votes: 20 62.5%
  • Total voters
    32
Bibi wants us to think so.
 
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No.

Iran is a ****hole, but not a threat to the world.
 
Iran is the largest source of state funded terrorism in the world, openly supporting Hamas, Hez and terrorists in Africa. It's in violation of UN treaties regarding uranium enrichment. It shares nuclear and missile tech with North Korea.
 
ecofarm said:
Iran is the largest source of state funded terrorism in the world, openly supporting Hamas, Hez and terrorists in Africa. It's in violation of UN treaties regarding uranium enrichment. It shares nuclear and missile tech with North Korea.
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And you have links are or we supposed to believe you on face value?
 
EnigmaO01 said:
And you have links are or we supposed to believe you on face value?
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I don't care if you, personally, do not know these things.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Recently Netanuahu stated at the UN General Assembly that Iran is a greater threat than ISIS. Do you agree with this statement?
Video can be found here: [h=1]Netanyahu: Iran poses greater threat than Islamic State[/h]
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Saudi Arabia is the largest source of state funded terrorism in the world. Iran isn't the problem that the Saudis are.

Saudi Arabia is said to be the world's largest source of funds for Salafi jihadist terrorist militant groups, such as al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, the Pakistan Taliban, ISIS and Lashkar-e-Taiba in South Asia, and donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide, according to Hillary Clinton.[78] According to a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state, "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups."[79]

State-sponsored terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Iran and ISIS are both threats, but different kinds of threats. Hard to tell which is the "larger" threat. Apples and oranges.
 
Montecresto said:
Saudi Arabia is the largest source of state funded terrorism in the world. Iran isn't the problem that the Saudis are.

Saudi Arabia is said to be the world's largest source of funds for Salafi jihadist terrorist militant groups, such as al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, the Pakistan Taliban, ISIS and Lashkar-e-Taiba in South Asia, and donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide, according to Hillary Clinton.[78] According to a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state, "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups."[79]

State-sponsored terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saudi does not fund AlQ and your source does not appear to actually be wikipedia. The source conflates private donations with state funds.
 
ecofarm said:
Iran is the largest source of state funded terrorism in the world, openly supporting Hamas, Hez and terrorists in Africa. It's in violation of UN treaties regarding uranium enrichment. It shares nuclear and missile tech with North Korea.
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What he said above... so, hell yes. Bibi is correct.
 
I don't think either of them are that big of a threat to the United States. A better question is which one is overblown more.
 
Bibi didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. Heck, Bush told us about Iran over 13 years ago.

However, BECAUSE it was Bush saying it, nobody believed it. Bush was right about a lot of things...even Obama agrees with him. That just means there are a lot of dumbass people out there who don't have a clue.
 
ecofarm said:
Saudi does not fund AlQ and your source does not appear to actually be wikipedia.
The source conflates private donations with state funds.
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Since the ruling family in Saudi Arabia controls all of the government the state treasury there is their piggy bank. Who's going to stop them from doing whatever they want to do?
 
shrubnose said:
Since the ruling family in Saudi Arabia controls all of the government the state treasury there is their piggy bank. Who's going to stop them from doing whatever they want to do?
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Conspiracy theories aside, the Saudi government does not fund AlQ. Nor do they send death-row inmates to fight in Syria (that was a load of crap from a conspiracy website). The source for Monte's quote does not appear to be the real wiki and it openly conflated private and state funding.

Iran is, in fact, the largest source of state funded terrorism.
 
shrubnose said:
No, as others have said Iran is a different kind of threat. ISIS is a threat right now, Iran could be a threat in the future.
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Hamas and Hez are not a threat now?
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Recently Netanuahu stated at the UN General Assembly that Iran is a greater threat than ISIS. Do you agree with this statement?
Video can be found here: [h=1]Netanyahu: Iran poses greater threat than Islamic State[/h]
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I voted no. I would have see more evidence, but I think Netanuahu is kind of hysterical. Perhaps he is upset ISIS has bumped Iran and Israel to the foreground of people's mind. I think he probably needs to approach his concern a little more rationally and use less hyperbole. It makes him look bad.
 
ecofarm said:
Conspiracy theories aside,
the Saudi government does not fund AlQ.
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 Nor do they send death-row inmates to fight in Syria (that was a load of crap from a conspiracy website). The source for Monte's quote does not appear to be the real wiki and it openly conflated private and state funding.

Iran is, in fact, the largest source of state funded terrorism.
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From what I've read I tend to agree, but there's nothing to stop the Saudis from funding any group that they want to fund. They are going to do whatever they want to do, they won't be asking for permission.
 
ecofarm said:
Conspiracy theories aside, the Saudi government does not fund AlQ. Nor do they send death-row inmates to fight in Syria (that was a load of crap from a conspiracy website). The source for Monte's quote does not appear to be the real wiki and it openly conflated private and state funding.

Iran is, in fact, the largest source of state funded terrorism.
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Israel with their self-proclaimed chosen mentality is no doubt the greatest threat the world has ever known. Has Iran even crossed a border since the 1800's?

And don't even try calling me anti-semitic because that victim mentality is too played out.
 
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shrubnose said:
From what I've read I tend to agree, but there's nothing to stop the Saudis from funding any group that they want to fund. They are going to do whatever they want to do, they won't be asking for permission.
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So? Unlike Iran, they don't. They share intel and operations against terrorists instead of openly supporting Hamas, Hez and others.
 
ecofarm said:
Iran is the largest source of state funded terrorism in the world, openly supporting Hamas, Hez and terrorists in Africa. It's in violation of UN treaties regarding uranium enrichment. It shares nuclear and missile tech with North Korea.
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They fund Hezbollah and Hamas, what do these groups have in common?

They're Shia Islam, which is 15% of Islam! Sunnis who are the majority of Muslims! including the majority in Pakistan! the only Muslim atomic state, view Shia as heretics, worse then us infidels.

So now who's fighting ISIS? Iran, keep in mind, all the terror groups who've attacked us are Sunni, why would a Shia state hand over a bomb to people who consider them worse then infidels? Iran will not arm anti American groups.... It's not in their interests to do so..... In fact how's a great time to mend fences with Iran so we don't have to keep worrying about them, their anti American rhetoric comes from the fact that 1) we sponsored a king who mistreated the people bad enough they rose up and2) ever since there's been anti Iran rhetoric coming from the White House.
 
ecofarm said:
Hamas and Hez are not a threat now?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is Hamas and Hezbollah are more or less limited to attacks on Israel and don't have a world-wide agenda.

As far as I can tell, the main difference between the threat ISIS is posing and the one posed by Iran is that Iran is not likely going to resort to the same kind of guerilla/terrorist/asymmetric warfare as the ISIS fanatics. Iran is not likely going to commit terrorist attacks in Western countries, because if such attacks can be traced back to them, retaliation would cost them much more than they benefit, and if it cannot be traced back to them, there is not much sense in terrorism. The threat by Iran is that if they successfully develop nukes, they can shift the balance of power in the ME and severely damage Western interests there.

ISIS, on the other side, is a bunch of fanatized radicals who don't really have to care for a state and are not required on the approval of the people they are "governing", and they do have a fanatic global agenda. Their warfare is based on asymmetric tactics and terrorism, and there already is a competition among them about who's the first to commit the next successful big terror attack against the West.
 
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