In a recent New York Times opinion piece entitled “The Day After War Begins in Iran,” which seemingly grieves the death of murderous warlord and terrorist general Qasem Soleimani, the author makes the case that President Trump’s action to take out the savage killer is “an act of war.” Nowhere in the article does the author mention that the airstrike was in result of an American killed and an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
The author, Azadeh Moaveni, continues to laud Soleimani as a “hero,” writing, “Nearly 40 years ago, General Suleimani began his career in the trenches of the Iran-Iraq War, the formative drama of the Islamic Republic, where heroism was applauded by most Iranians who felt their country was the victim of external attack and isolation.”
In another passage, Moaveni describes Soleimani’s death as an “American drone strike incinerated Iran’s top general and national war hero Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, along with a senior Iraqi militia commander, in what can only be understood as an act of war.”
Another passage reads, “For decades now, the United States has often seemed driven to hurt Iran.”
One must wonder why the New York Times even agreed to consider, much less publish a piece that sympathizes with a barbaric murderous terrorist. There is no excuse for this kind of sorrow for the death of a man with the blood of at least 608 Americans and countless others on his hands.