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US-Iran Peace Talks Stall as Nuclear Dispute and Blockade Raise Stakes

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 @BCT488C from Texas  commented…1mo1MO

My opinion is that all American Citizens should be aware of the war we are in with Iran. Everyone needs to be educated about the atrocities and crimes committed, which have been approved and supported by our president. There is a genocide going on, and people need to see how it is affecting everyone. American citizens and Iran.

 @B8PC6ZTRepublican  from California  disagreed…1mo1MO

There is no genocide going on in the Middle East; you have some incredible audacity and disrespect for those killed in real genocides and Israelis killed by Radical Islamist terror groups to suggest that anyone is committing a genocide against the Iranians. There have been no war crimes going on; war crimes are defined by the War Crimes Act of 1996 as grave breaches of the Geneva Convention without justifiable military necessity. Stopping a tyrannical regime from illegally obtaining nuclear weapons that it will most likely distribute to terror groups is absolutely justifiable military necessity, and killing a few thousand civilians, while a tragic loss, is not a grave breach of the Geneva Convention.

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Bernie Sanders Charges Ahead As Democrats Stall Out

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