Posted on 01/01/2018 9:20:29 AM PST by MAGA2017
The protests that have rattled Iran this weekend are in many ways an echo of the near past. In the summer of 2009, millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest the reelection of President Ahmadinejad.
The opposition believed his reelection victory was fraudulent. They chanted slogans demanding a recount of the votes. Others denounced the regime and its highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Hardliners and security forces confronted the crowds with anti-riot gear and harsh condemnation, often labeling them agents of foreign powers. It was a huge moment and seemed, at the time, to portend an irreversible shift in geopolitics.
Iran is experiencing the first large-scale unrests since the Green Movement faded. Since then, Iranians tackled their challenges at the ballot box rather than on the streets—in two presidential elections, both won by the moderate Hassan Rouhani; and in two parliamentary elections leading to the country’s legislative body being populated by more moderates and reformists. But familiar difficulties have returned. With the controversial nuclear deal—between Tehran and world powers, including the United States—failing to deliver economic recovery for the masses, many were starting to feel restless once again.
President Trump has taken to Twitter on multiple occasions to comment. “The world is watching!” he tweeted on Friday. And also, “the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most.”
In one tweet, the president included a link to a video of his speech at the UN General Assembly in September, which was largely criticized by Iranians of all political persuasions as belligerent and disrespectful.
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Trump doesn’t understand, but the Atlantic writers do?
Does this need any further belittling of the Atlantic dorks?
Good grief, they are only journalists, the lowest regarded profession in the multiverse.
Yeah and Obama did. LOL.
The Left has been enabling Terrorist Mullah regimes in Iran for about 40 years.
This commie Atlantic and it’s media pals are irrelevant it will take another year of the Don to wake them up as we don’t care what they think.
Yep Trump attacking the great Iranian democracy.
Slime lower than a lib lawyer. Belly Crawlers.
The Fraud and the Hussein Heads at the Atlantic serve the same masters.
Media, Democrat playbook Page 2 circa 1981. Reagan is dangerous, doesn’t understand Soviet Union, endangers its citizens.
I made this up but I think you get the drift.
I’m sure she loved the way Obama sat back while Iranian people died.
no, seriously. I’m sure she thinks Obama handled Iran great for 8 years.
NUTS!
The Atlantic is the one that does not live in the real world. What utter tripe.
And “it” does? Comfortable here are you? How about a one way ticket to get a real eye view of whats going on. I thought so
It is impossible to take anyone seriously who looks like that.
The IT reports just a tired old liberal mantra that non-liberals are violent and dangerous, yet, it’s been liberals that get us into wars.
What the left understands is their terrorist allies are loosing their grip on freedom seeking people. That clearly means that they are going to attack anyone who supports freedom.
Is that a...Pat?
I agree w/ that assessment and the left, under Obama, turned their backs on the Green Revolution as if they were supplicants to the Mullahs.
It looks like Trump isn't going to continue that cowardly surrender.
Everyone keeps mentioning 2009....but 2011 had some heavy protests. I posted a link.
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