Hawzah News Agency – The United States and some European countries have been accusing Iran of being a terrorist for years. After the martyrdom of General Soleimani, Trump appeared in front of the American media cameras and said proudly, "We managed to kill a terrorist." To understand the correctness or incorrectness of his words, we must first know the meaning of terrorism. In the dictionary of TahlilGaran, terrorism is defined as "the belief in the necessity of murder and terror among the people and a kind of [system] of thought which allows any action to achieve political goals."

We now need to understand which of these characteristics General Soleimani and his allies had. Did they believe in the necessity of killing and terrorizing, and if they were fighting someone, who was that person, and what did he do?

The forces of the Quds Force, at the request of governments such as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc., entered those countries to help their people who had been attacked by groups such as ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, etc., to defend them against these groups. After entering any area, in addition to looting their property, ISIS or other groups beheaded their men in front of their families, burned their children alive, and raped their wives and daughters in front of their husbands and fathers. In June 2014, ISIS massacred 1,700 unarmed Shia students at Spyker Air Base in Iraq and dumped the bodies of some of them into the river. It is as if a river of blood flowed and some of them were buried in mass graves.

The people that Qassem Soleimani was fighting against were a criminal and aggressor group, not ordinary and innocent people. Therefore, his goal was to help and support the oppressed, not to brutally kill people.

 It is wise to stand up and defend one's home and family when someone's home is invaded. But if that person alone could not do it and asked others for help, humanity says that others should help him. The logic of Iran in the imposed war of Iraq against Iran and in helping its neighbors is based on defense, not on the attack. In none of these cases has Iran initiated the war and always entered from a defensive position.

Had it not been for Soleimani and his friends who sacrificed their lives in this way, countries like Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon would have been devastated and so many innocent people would have been killed, and ISIS might have already entered other countries and even Iran.

The word "terrorist" is a label that US President, Bush, first gave to Iraqis. After the occupation of Kuwait, to attract public opinion and make the Americans innocent, he called the Iraqis terrorists and called the American action, a fight against terrorism; But was their goal really to fight terrorism, and were the Iraqis really terrorists? It must be said that these are lies that they tell to justify their work. The United States has long thought of plundering the Middle East and gaining access to its oil resources; To this end, it sometimes enters into direct negotiations with their governments, such as Saudi Arabia, and makes friends with them to exploit their resources. Just as Trump introduced Saudi Arabia as his dairy cow; But if regional governments like Syria and Iraq refused to cooperate with them, it will enter into a deal with them in another way. Former Secretary of United State, Hillary Clinton, has acknowledged in her book, "Difficult Choices," that ISIS was in fact, created by the United States to divide the Middle East. They brought ISIS into the region to destroy the ruling governments through an indirect war and then gain access to the resources of these countries. According to them, thousands of millions of dollars were spent on ISIS to implement their goals in the region, but the Quds Force, with the help of the people of the region, thwarted their plans.

Now, according to the definition of terrorism, the people of the world must judge whether General Soleimani and his allies, who fought the criminals to defend the oppressed people of the region, are terrorists?! Or Trump and the US government and those who supported them to equip and train ISIS?!

Elahe Dehghani