Posted on 12/31/2017 6:46:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
On issues from climate change to healthcare, there are few things President Trump relishes more than doing the opposite of something his predecessor did. Now an eruption of anti-government protests across Iran — the biggest in nearly a decade in the Islamic Republic — offers him another way to set himself apart from President Obama.
But it’s a path strewn with foreign policy pitfalls as well as potential opportunities.
Iran’s leaders already are casting Trump’s increasingly effusive expressions of support for the demonstrators as opportunistic meddling and are painting the demonstrators as foreign pawns, adopting a strategy that some analysts say could jeopardize the legitimacy of the nascent anti-government protests.
Trump’s volley of tweets, hailing the protests only hours after they broke out Thursday night, contrasted with Obama’s more muted initial response to the 2009 wave of unrest known as the “Green Movement” that followed the disputed reelection of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president.
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La De Da Timez is simpatico with the Mullahs of Hussein and Jimmah?
Like the football ‘protests’ President Trump can’t lose on this one, and the press can’t possibly win.
Yet, they rush in like fools.
Things would be a lot different if they had a 2nd amendment there.
Wishful thinking by liberals hoping for the worst for Trump a d the USA.
Win or lose, America backs liberty against tyranny.
Everyone will just have to deal with it.
Let me get this straight. Resisting Trump is good, resisting Islamic tyranny is bad? Only a Democrap could make sense of that.
Imagine that. They hate Trump so much they’ll hope the Ayatollahs crush the protesters before they’ll support any of Trump’s policies.
“Yet, they rush in like fools.”
2018 is going to be very, very interesting.
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What idiotic horse crap. Like they aren’t going to crack down no matter what. These reporters are filth.
What in the world is an American President supposed to do when oppressed people are fighting for their very lives???
Liberals always seem to claim they care about human rights, yet are remarkably silent when push comes to shove.
Chief example, Obummer’s reticence a few years ago when Iran last rose up.
God Bless President Trump and may the Iranian people soon know peace, liberty and freedom.
Iran’s government, the number one state sponsor of terrorism, must be toppled.
The Arab Spring was all about islamist totalitarianism. The riots in Iran seem to be about true freedom. Absolute opposites.
They talk about the Iran nuclear deal like it was ratified by Congress or sumthin’.
You can bet Trump has the support of the Saudi King in this action. Anything that weakens to Mullahs is good for the Arabs.
Hey don’t ya know the liberal drill..do the OPPOSITE of what Trump does..if Trump is Anti Cancer, liberals are pro cancer..if Trump came out tomorrow and said he was for abortion liberals would say ban abortions..liberals, they just can’t help themselves
Funny. They were okay with, we came we saw he died ?
Iranians are Persians, not Arabs.
It's pretty hard to do the wrong thing by doing the opposite of 0bamaomao.
But Saudi King’s position in Arabic world is facing great challenge.
Look at Qatar.
No Persian Spring for them! :)
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