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What a curious thing to say.
Is the destruction of houses containing 'not people' somehow less likely to generate refugees than houses containing people?
I'd suspect it's the explosions that generate the refugees not necessarily who's being exploded.
Well I think the charitable interpretation is to read the claim in context. And the context is this:
It seems unlikely that bombing the homes of elites will result in refugees, at least in the sense of a large wave of poor people flooding in. Although I could see it resulting in the sort of refugees who have numbered bank accounts.
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Yes. Because the elites are small fractions and they usually stick together - so there is not much surface area to generate refugees. Iranians know well enough that the USA and Israel are not doing indiscriminate killing - and if you are living in working class neighborhood or rural village or whatever - you are totally safe.
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Not surprising thing to say if you are consistent anarchist rejecting all forms of statism and political authority as robbery, extortion, kidnapping and murder. From such POV, government officials and their lackeys are not human, but two legged predatory beasts.
Easy to find if it is the case - would OP also list Israeli officials and functionaries among "non-people"?
They are absolutely legitimate targets. And if you kill Israeli elder surrounded by all his grandchildren - I will shrug it off with the same war is hell with which I shrugged of the school in former barracks strike.
But so far Iranian strategy is not that of assassinations but what could generously be described as monkey with a wrench combined with spray and pray.
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If an explosion rings out in the forest with no one to hear it, does it produce refugees?
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