Far be it from me to defend the lying, duplicitous, terror-supporting religious tyrannical theocrats running Iran, but let’s get the facts straight:
In 1953, Iran had a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED secular president, Mohammad Mossadegh. He was modernizing his country. But he would not accede to the terms the Republican Eisenhower administration wanted for the sale of their oil (that the U.S. imperialists somehow felt entitled to), so they had him overthrown and replaced with a brutal dictator, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Pahlavi was friendly to the U.S. that had placed him on the Peacock Throne, but was brutal to his people, who rightly harbored resentments towards the U.S. for toppling their DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED secular president.
In 1979, the people of Iran finally overthrew the Shah, under the leadership of the religious theocrat Ayatollah Khomeini, who was succeeded by the current “supreme leader” Ayatollah Khamenei.
The Islamic Republic was hostile to the U.S., but eventually the Obama administration was able to orchestrate a brilliant SEVEN NATION international Iran nuclear treaty (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] comprised of U.K., France, Germany, China, Russia, U.S. and Iran) to prevent nuclearizing of Iran.
WE WERE AT PEACE. IRAN WAS UNDER CONTROL.
Then Trump came along, blew up the treaty, of which REPUBLICANS had obstructed ratification, treated Iran with bellicosity and belligerence and, surprise! surprise! now we are teetering on the brink of war.
The Iranian government is not an honorable actor in the region.
But at this time, it is TRUMP who has made the U.S. the rogue nation.
It is TRUMP, the belligerent bomb thrower, who has caused Iran to become a threat once again.
Far be it from me to defend the lying, duplicitous, terror-supporting religious tyrannical theocrats running Iran, but let’s get the facts straight:
In 1953, Iran had a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED secular president, Mohammad Mossadegh. He was modernizing his country. But he would not accede to the terms the Republican Eisenhower administration wanted for the sale of their oil (that the U.S. imperialists somehow felt entitled to), so they had him overthrown and replaced with a brutal dictator, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Pahlavi was friendly to the U.S. that had placed him on the Peacock Throne, but was brutal to his people, who rightly harbored resentments towards the U.S. for toppling their DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED secular president.
In 1979, the people of Iran finally overthrew the Shah, under the leadership of the religious theocrat Ayatollah Khomeini, who was succeeded by the current “supreme leader” Ayatollah Khamenei.
The Islamic Republic was hostile to the U.S., but eventually the Obama administration was able to orchestrate a brilliant SEVEN NATION international Iran nuclear treaty (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] comprised of U.K., France, Germany, China, Russia, U.S. and Iran) to prevent nuclearizing of Iran.
WE WERE AT PEACE. IRAN WAS UNDER CONTROL.
Then Trump came along, blew up the treaty, of which REPUBLICANS had obstructed ratification, treated Iran with bellicosity and belligerence and, surprise! surprise! now we are teetering on the brink of war.
The Iranian government is not an honorable actor in the region.
But at this time, it is TRUMP who has made the U.S. the rogue nation.
It is TRUMP, the belligerent bomb thrower, who has caused Iran to become a threat once again.