Iranian state television has broadcast a segment describing efforts to reach President Donald Trump’s son Barron and referring to a $10 million reward, an unusually explicit threat against a member of the US president’s immediate family.

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    I guess you can’t blindly destroy families around the world without someone wanting retribution.

    I reckon the problem is that donny will only care about his lost investment and it will probably boost his fan base.

    Edit: if they take them both out, that would be nice.

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    The best part is that they don’t try to give the money to you directly because that would be stupid, we all know you’re in jail or dead by that point. It goes to your family so they don’t have to worry about living in poverty in this shitty place anymore.

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    Trump threatened Iranian civilization as a whole. The US and it’s ally Israel have explicitly gone after Iranian civilian leadership and their families. So the Iranians have quite a ways of going before saying anything remotely similarly shocking. Hasan-i Sabbah is after all part of that civilization’s tradition and “FAFO” is your own apparent doctrine…

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    This kind of thing just gives Trump more propaganda fuel. Best thing to do is just be quiet and let Trump talk his shit and make a fool of himself. China did that very well.

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      Both these regimes are incredible at decision making, no matter what they decide we all lose.

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        I wouldn’t call personal vengeance for getting half your family killed a bad decision, to be completely honest. We’ll keep eating shit because of the decisions made by both of these countries, but I’m able to say “I get it” about one of these countries’ decisions.