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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Well, she’s got on her “smart glasses” and she works at The Atlantic so she must be a brilliant liberal. As they all are.
That’s not a man, man!
The fact that she refers to Rouhani as a moderate is very telling.
She needs to get up to date or her talking points emails. "scattered protests about economic issues" was offered and correctly hooted down on the first day. They're burning police stations now.
How could Iran be having economic troubles? What did they do with the pallets of dollars we gave them?
I don’t know. It looks like Pajama Boy to me.
Correct title should have been: Tabatabai doesn’t understand....
lol
Why would you post this Leftard crap in Breaking News??????
[The fact that she refers to Rouhani as a moderate is very telling.]
Yes, very Obama-like. A moderate, eh?
I had one guy tell me Yahoo! was conservative. While there are many conservative posters, the editors and writers at Yahoo are as conservative as Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As if Obamas and Kerrys solution was better.
And without the required (BARF ALERT)
That’s a MAN baby
Yeah - if he really understood, he would be putting billions of dollars on pallets and sending them over......
I was chuckling to myself about the same thing. As POTUS, Trump has the largest, most complex and technologically advanced intelligence gathering system ever created along with what I suspect are the most experienced and knowledgable analysts on the planet at his disposal, but somehow he has know idea about what’s going on in Iran. Meanwhile, the idiots at the Atlantic consider themselves “in the know” because they are watching CNN in their lunchroom.
Great way for me to start the New Year with a good chuckle.
LAV
It’s a liberal genius at The Atlantic!!
It's posted in current events, which it is.
Know = No
D’oh!
“criticized by Iranians of all political persuasions as belligerent and disrespectful.”
Looking at the political persuasion of middle easterners isn’t where you find answers.
It’s the religious and cultural persuasions. They will consider whatever he said to be disrespectful because he’s a non-muslim westerner.
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