All repressive governments, like all democracies, are different.
My impression of the Iranian government is that it has both national pride and genuine religious conviction. How it interprets those qualities through its domestic policies is not the subject of this page.
My question is about the promotion of terrorism. If people who commit terrorist acts think that they are doing so for the sake of Islam, then how does that argument not fall apart under scrutiny when a Russian-Iranian alliance in Syria is considered?
Syrians are starving. They are displaced. The majority of them are Muslim.
The majority of Russians aren't Muslim and are unlikely to be interested in conversion through either violent or nonviolent means.
How can the conclusion that the support of terrorism by a coherent state with nonMuslim allies is politically rather than spiritually motivated be avoided? I don't think it can.
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