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Another irrelevant thread coming up. As #Solemani was buried huge crowds gathered to pay their respect but what's interesting is that the #AyatollahAliKhamenei wept. This trend of powerful personalities openly shedding tears hasn't garnered enough attention. 
Earlier powerful men were supposed to be stoic or atleast portray that image. From time to time we have seen powerful men cry but now even that is used as a political tool. A list of POTUS's crying. Almost all the incidents are after the 90's.
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Lee Kuan Yew while announcing the failed merger with Malaysia.
SPECIAL REPORT: Trump's threats to destroy over 50 important Iranian cultural sites is a violation of US and international law. By @AlanRMacLeod #Iran #Solemani mintpressnews.com/trump-threats-…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognizes 24 sites in Iran (more than almost any other country in the world) that are of such critical cultural and historical importance that they belong to all of humanity.
The Trump administration pulled the U.S. out of UNESCO, owing $600 million to the organization after it admitted #Palestine as a full member. mintpressnews.com/us-pulls-unesc…
1. Trump’s thread is ignorant, very simplistic and linear - based on a previous history of blagging, smoke and mirrors, and intimidation used in his real estate business (not to great effect). The reality of war is different, very different. #Solemani
2. Regarding Trump & family, he’s scared of the horrors of war hence his dodging of the Vietnam draft and that he has kept his naive boys & girl away from serving (Eric Trump’s tweet about opening a can of ‘Whoop ass’ par example/ Trump’s naive little boy couldn’t be more wrong.
3. A brief study of U.S success (or not) in Iraq in the years after the 2003 invasion is all you really need to look at. The U.S spent over $700Bn on defense and operations across 2007. A U.S troop surge in Iraq in 2008 put around 170,000 U.S troops in Iraq. You might argue that
Bodies of slain General #Solemani & comrades arrive in #Ahwaz, Iran. A mammoth funeral procession has kicked off. Images of hundreds of thousands mourners packing the streets, bridge & square, is colossal.
.3/ This is only in #Ahwaz, southwest of #Iran & the first leg of #Solaimani’s funeral procession. I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like once they arrive to the capital #Tehran.
