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former9thward

(31,936 posts)
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 05:27 PM Jul 2021

Iranian Olympic Gold medal winner in shooting was a sniper in Syria.

Iran's olympian sharpshooter, Javad Foroughi, honed his craft during Syria’s civil war – where civilians, mostly women and children, were often put in the crosshairs of live bullets. He shouldn't be rewarded.

Like other members of the Basij militia, a US-designated foreign terrorist group affiliated with Iran’s International Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Foroughi honed his craft during Syria’s civil war – where Syrian civilians, mostly women and children, were often, and intentionally, put in the crosshairs of live bullets.

Foroughi isn’t ashamed of his service to the Iranian regime, nor is anyone even trying to hide it. Iran boasted of his service on state TV where Foroughi actually declared that the greatest honor in life was to fight on behalf of Iran’s genocidal, Holocaust-denying leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

One famous Iranian athlete won’t be competing in Tokyo: wrestler Navid Afkari.
Afkari can’t compete. He was executed last year for daring to protest the regime’s crimes against the Iranian people, including the mullahs’ suppression of all human rights, especially the rights of minorities, women and girls.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/iranian-sharpshooter-olympian-should-be-arrested-not-given-gold-medal-opinion-675253?_ga=2.182671008.701792966.1627328385-1969581575.1579377799&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=First+in+world%2C+Israel+agrees+to+give+seniors+60%2B+third+COVID+jab&utm_campaign=July+29%2C+2021+Night

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Iranian Olympic Gold medal winner in shooting was a sniper in Syria. (Original Post) former9thward Jul 2021 OP
Wow, that's bad Beringia Jul 2021 #1
Yeah, not exactly the "world peace" that the Olympics promote. NCDem47 Jul 2021 #2
And we have ex-military snipers and drone pilots walking amonst us right now, worries me even more. marble falls Jul 2021 #3
Remember when Trump pardoned war criminal Eddie Gallagher? SouthernCal_Dem Jul 2021 #4
The "shooting sports" are not nice- not representative of paz-full activity sanatanadharma Jul 2021 #5
Ugh Demovictory9 Jul 2021 #6

SouthernCal_Dem

(852 posts)
4. Remember when Trump pardoned war criminal Eddie Gallagher?
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 06:09 PM
Jul 2021

It appears both Iran and the Republicans in the United States love them some killers.

Not surprising.

sanatanadharma

(3,687 posts)
5. The "shooting sports" are not nice- not representative of paz-full activity
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 06:43 PM
Jul 2021

However, I am made to understand that shooting can be thrilling, great sport, satisfying, inviting of more.
Some activities and interests and desires are like that; they can be quite addictive, actually.
Perhaps most are.
Nonetheless some activities famously require increasing "hits" to achieve the thrill.

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