For Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi—who died this week in a helicopter crash—the question was not whether terrorism was good or evil, but who perpetrated it against whom.
Raisi condemned the terrorist attack that the Islamic State launched this January against Iranians who were commemorating the death of Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in January 2020.
Soleimani had commanded the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Forc, which itself engages in terrorism, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“The IRGCF-QF,” says the DNI’s website, “is one of the Iranian regime’s primary organizations responsible for conducting covert lethal activities outside of Iran, including asymmetric and terrorist operations.”
“Iran views terrorism,” says the DNI, “as a tool that it can use to support its…
