In 2020, when #45 ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani (IRGC-QF), he removed from the chessboard quite an effective anti-ISIS commander.

Politically, at the last VPOTUS debate VP Mike Pence used this killing as a talking point, but he slurred the name and the audience wasn't swayed at all.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo received additional security after leaving office because of the potential retaliation from the IRGC-QF. Just as rogue elements in the US conducted the illegal "Iran-Contra Affair" in the mid-1980s, so could angry rogue elements in the IRGC-QF avenge their martyred leader behind the back of the political leadership in Tehran.

Killing General Soleimani was something the Israelis wanted because he effectively helped train and arm Lebanese Hezbollah, a ----- militia that organized to fight the 1982 Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. The 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon was the brainchild of Ariel Sharon. Prior to 1982, the major ----- militia in Lebanon was Amal (in Arabic this means hope).

#45 brazenly crossed a line by killing General Soleimani. In an American analogy, gangster Dutch Schultz crossed a line by attempting to kill Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in 1935. Dutch Schultz was then killed by hitmen from Murder, Inc.

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"What about if aliens abduct him? Then what should we do? What about if he trips and fall down the stairs? Alligator attack??"

Too funny! Thanks for this one, CLOWNSHACK.

If not for the MSM, #45 would have zero attention and the race wouldn't be close.

Fox TV is the new "Soma."

By insinuating the Iranians, #45 has diverted American attention away from the real issue:

A deranged young white male took pot-shots at an ex-POTUS with an easily accessible assault rifle. Look at all the time people are discussing conspiracy theories about this. The real problem is the US is awash with easily obtainable assault weapons.

That is why Dotard, channeling P.T. Barnum, is sliming the Iranians instead of addressing the real issue at hand.

As I stipulated before, by insinuating the Iranians and skeptics mincing over conspiracy theories, #45 and the GOP have diverted American attention away from the real issue:

The US is awash with easily obtainable firearms and assault weapons and people are dying every day because of it.

The Shah's secret police, the SAVAK, was trained and supported by CIA.

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"Writing at the time of the Shah's overthrow, Time magazine on February 19, 1979, described SAVAK as having "long been Iran's most hated and feared institution" which had "tortured and murdered thousands of the Shah's opponents." The Federation of American Scientists also found it guilty of "the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners" and symbolizing "the Shah's rule from 1963"79." The FAS list of SAVAK torture methods included "electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the ---------, and the extraction of teeth and nails."

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