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Do the missiles Iran has been raining down on other countries for decades not count as WMDs?
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No.

“ A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people”

https://www.dhs.gov/topics/weapons-mass-destruction.


As many like to say, quantity has a quality of its own.

Orwellian semantic games…Iran didn’t have a WMD, so now we will modify the definition of WMD.

No. There’s a definition from the UN here if you’re interested:

https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/UNHQ/9626F6CEB2A92C9B8...


AFAICT, not by any commonly accepted definition of WMD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction#Def...


Oh, that would be quite a spin. We can probably see it in the Faux News soon.



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