Iran’s comments on Harry

[PoochPalace]

As expected, Harry I’ll advised comments on his active service has drawn attention from extremists.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry have alleged tweeted:

“The British regime, whose royal family member, sees the killing of 25 innocent people as removal of chess pieces and has no regrets over the issue, and those who turn a blind eye to this war crime, are in no position to preach others on human rights.”

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Well yes , it was a very ill advised comment for Harry to make . He could easily have told about his experience of the war without this piece of information. Not a wise move by him and whoever allowed this to be included.

Taken out of context from the book along with everything else. What did people think he did during the war sit around twiddling his thumbs??

Well this was bound to happen. Myself and DH were only talking about it last week.

@lollipoprainbow That’s really not the point. As a member of the British Royal Family, he should not have openly talked about how many people he had killed. That’s the issue here.

Did he specifically say they were civilians, or that he didn't know who they were, it was indiscriminate?

he is like a child that never thinks through the repercussions of his actions and then jumps up.and down, stamps his feet and blames everyone else when it hits the fan.
The media repeated verbatim the whole passage. There was no taking it out of context and he has now put a huge target on his families backs and given the Taliban a moral high ground to spout their poison from.

I doubt Harry is arsed about what Iran’s Foreign Ministry have to say tbh.

There’s a lot of people/representatives/leaders I’d be interested in hearing from on this subject, Iran is not one of them, with the government's denial of women's rights and its brutal crackdown on protests. Absolute cheek.

I await the Foreign Office letting the government of Iran know that while they have quoted verbatim things Harry said in his book, they have taken it out of context…. 🙄

I don't understand this. Is it supposed to be a justification for human rights failings ("we're shouldn't listen, look Harry said bad thing")

I don't get it.

The chess piece analogy was particularly crass- bound to rile. I’m telling his truth he has caused international tensions which put others at risk. How this, and other passages like the penis cream were kept in I have no idea.

I await the Foreign Office letting the government of Iran know that while they have quoted verbatim things Harry said in his book, they have taken it out of context…. 🙄

Is there anything about PH's book that isn't being taken out of context?

He's got his money, millions and millions, he doesn't give a fuck about peasants dying in this country, let alone the middle east. (when I say peasants I mean all regular plebs in all countries)

His words, his mess - and none of his whip smart team picked up on this ? Or did they - and thought sod it, this will get some headlines

We are quite well aware of what happens in a war. It's a totally different thing to write about it in such a way in a book. And how on earth was it "taken out of context"? - which seems to be an excuse for anything the idiotic man says.

Think some people are forgetting that since Harry’s tour, the war has been deemed illegal by international law. That is why it was a particularly ill-advised comment and why Iran (and the Taliban also) are basically saying ‘don’t lecture us about human rights with your own record’.

It’s nothing about ‘context’ of the book. It’s context of the current political situation which members of the RF have to be aware of.

The fact that it was there to be taken out of context is unacceptable.

Of course Iran quickly used it to make their own point. However it’s really bad idea to put this info in the book at all and especially in the way Harry did.
I don’t think a lot of high profile people/leaders will comment on this book because they usually don’t want to comment on anything connected to royal family.

All these excuses for H, "out of context," *bad move for whoever allowed this to be included" etc.
The responsibility rests with H.
Surely common sense alone would have made him realise that stating how many Taliban he killed would have repercussions?
The press were bound to pick up on it, and the Taliban would then hear of it.

@lollipoprainbow - anyone with a military background knows you don't talk about operations. He clearly wanted the notoriety and sensationalism - no other justifiable reason.

I actually think the words in the book are worse than the headlines. I was going to put the words here but decided against it as it could cause more damage. It really is shocking that he thought on any level this is ok. Same with his description of Pat at Eton. It shows he is unfeeling and cruel.

This is simply not true, as a result of Harry's comments in the book about his 'kill count' he has had to step up his personal security to arm guards.

I think he is very worried about his family's security, who wouldn't be! There are nut cases around that don't need much of an excuse to target someone like Harry.

Sadly Harry couldn't bring himself to take responsibility for his own words, and incredibly blamed the media for printing them! And taking them ''out of context', despite publishing word for word what Harry himself said. Does he actually expect people to carry on nodding along to this nonsense?

Harry has put himself, his family and the British military at risk with his stupidity and he only has himself to blame if the worst happens. He won't get much sympathy here!

I thought PlayStation came into it….

I don't agree that it was ever okay to kill random people either much less write about it, I did not agree with the war in the first place, and honestly to call human beings that have died, to call them chess pieces is astonishingly disrespectful - and a total disregard for human life.

"25 innocent people"

I'll just leave it there

But what I can't understand is how that passage made it into the final draft. Doesn't the ghostwriter/publisher have a duty of care? Wouldn't the legal department have thought "this is a bit close to the line here, there could be ramifications from a terrorist group"

I mean literally every single person in the world had exactly the same "oh shit" response when the passage got leaked