[Salon] Iran declares EU armed forces to be "terrorist organizations"

[Chas Freeman <cwfresidence@gmail.com>]

FM: John Whitbeck

Transmitted below is a link to a statement posted by the Iranian Foreign Ministry declaring, in application of the principle of reciprocity, that the armed forces of all European Union states are "terrorist organizations".

https://x.com/IRIMFA_EN/status/2025284315156738138

And why not? 

As the use and abuse of the word "terrorist" has become utterly incontinent, everyone should by now recognize that the word is essentially meaningless, simply a handy epithet with which to label anyone one doesn't like (https://thefloutist.substack.com/p/terrorism-this-insidious-word and https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/07/terrorism-the-indefinable-word), often with the goal of justifying and manufacturing consent for doing to those so labeled things, like killing them without legal process (see "narcoterrorists" in small boats), that would be easily recognized as illegal and immoral if done to anyone not so labeled.