The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has reacted to Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress by saying that the world and the American people are too intelligent to take advice from “an aggressive and occupier regime” that has itself developed an arsenal of nuclear weapons.

So you've latched on to the notion that Iran has already committed war against Israel because it funds Hamas and Israel, and therefore all your conclusions and justifications will emanate from that conclusion. You're justifying the murder of a scientist, which we agree was an act of war, on the premise that Iran finances Hezbollah and Hamas, who both holds seats and are major players in the governments of their respective countries.

Your view of global politics is warped as fuck. So, now America has declared war against Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria because it funds Israel?

America declared war on Iran when they funded Saddam during the Iraq-Iran war in the '80s? Does Iran have the right to murder American scientists currently working on developing nuclear devices on American soil.

Are we not going to take into account that, relatively speaking, countries like Lebanon and Palestine view Israel as the aggressor and occupier, and that the funds they receive are used for self-defense? Or that Iran helped train Hezbollah originally for the sole purpose of ridding South Lebanon of the ILLEGAL Israeli occupation? You are a free thinking man, aren't you?

You are delusional if you think war is not being conducted between these two countries.

I mean, I'm sure repeating that makes you feel good inside your own head because it quells your fears that Israel could potentially be the aggressor in the situation. That lone voice in your head might help you sleep at night, but unfortunately for you the declaration of war encompasses a very specific set of parameters that requires a performative speech act of some sort between countries or states. A legal standing exists between states and nations during wartime. A lot of countries would currently be at war with each other if they went by your "romanticized" criteria, FreeThinkingMan.

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