[ April 20, 2024 ]
Liars, hypocrites, morons, and terrorist supporters at CNN are in support of murdering mullahcracy.
So I had to check for myself and it’s true. The first and only coverage CNN provides on the #IranProtest is the counter-rally supporting the government pic.twitter.com/gaU8qd9Vv1
— Pardes Seleh 🧜♀️ (@PardesSeleh) December 30, 2017
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Two US presidents on two Iranian crackdowns
Stephen Collinson ProfileAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN:
(CNN)When protests erupted in Iran in 2009, then-President Barack Obama reacted cautiously, concerned that a forceful intervention could make America — reviled as the “Great Satan” by Iranian revolutionaries — a rallying cause for the clerical regime.
Eight years on, with demonstrations and violence breaking out again in Iranian cities, the US position is reversed, with President Donald Trump and his team almost gleefully leaping at the chance to line up alongside Iranian protesters.
In one of his first tweets of the new year, Trump was openly rooting for regime change.
“Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration. The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FOR CHANGE!”The sharp change of tack reflects the gulf in the intellectual and temperamental approach of the last two presidents and illuminates a dispute between rival schools of foreign policy thought about how the US should act and wield power in the world.
It is consistent with the hard line Trump has taken toward Iran, muscling up alongside US allies Israel and Saudi Arabia to try to check the country’s regional influence while continually casting doubt on the Obama-era nuclear deal with Tehran.
Trump’s position also represents a return to an elusive hope that has often characterized Washington’s approach to Tehran since the revolution in 1979 — that a political awakening will sweep the revolutionary regime away — combined with a belief that tough US talk can be a catalyst for change.
And it is in tune with Trump’s habit of repudiating the approaches of his predecessor. Republicans now argue that latest repression exposes Obama’s deal to freeze and reverse Iran’s nuclear program as a failure, even though its proponents insist it was always meant to deal with only the most dangerous aspect of the toxic US-Iran relationship: the concern over the possibility the country could develop nuclear weapons.
Still, four days into the Iranian protests, there is no sign yet that Trump will do much more than cheer the protests from the sidelines. There is also no indication that the demonstrators would actually welcome a US role, raising doubts over the influence Washington actually has in shaping an uprising being driven by internal political dynamics in Iran, especially economic discontent.
The death toll in the protests had climbed to 12 by Monday, according to reports in the state-run Iran newspaper, which cited the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting network, and in the Islamic Students News Agency, citing the governor of Dorud, Mashallah Nemati.
Trump has been closely watching the protests build, tweeting on Friday that Iranians were showing they were “fed up with regime’s corruption & its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad.”
The next day he tweeted out highlights of his UN General Assembly speech in which he warned that “oppressive” regimes like the one in Iran could not last.
“The USA is watching very closely for human rights violations!” he tweeted on Sunday, before accusing the government of cutting off the Internet to stop word of protests spreading — an apparent reference to Tehran’s efforts to limit access to social media.
Trump’s approach is rooted in the belief of many Republicans that Obama’s strategy did not do enough to fan protests against an enemy government and allowed Iran to invest the proceeds of sanctions relief under the nuclear deal to bolster its influence throughout the Middle East.
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18 Comments
6 years ago
I surprised myself when I thought of this point, but American TV media has a reputation for fielding hard questions at their guests on air, so has anyone thought of say Fox interviewing someone from CNN and asking them to justify their attitudes towards those risking their all in Iran ?
Is it impossible to get an interview and really press them until they’re seen to squirm ?
6 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Tucker Carlson is excellent at making liberal guests squirm and go ballistic, because he calls them out, and knows their ‘arguments’ better than they do. He knows the facts, they know how to call names and make emotional appeals to ‘justice,’ and ‘equality,’ etc. I rarely watch Fox anymore, and if I do, I tune into him. He’s absolutely brilliant. Incredible knowledge, doesn’t hesitate to laugh in the faces of his guests when they are being ridiculous.
6 years ago
CNN & allies are so pathetic. Everyone with some common sense can see that Irans case is just another step further into the implosion of Islam.
6 years ago
President Trump tweets, ““Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration. The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FOR CHANGE!”
How could you NOT want freedom for those people? How could you not know that Iran is a brutal dictatorship? Does it mean we should jump in there? No. But to publicly state support for Iran’s people who want freedom, to publicly call out Iran for what we all know they are — how does one argue with that? How does one criticize that?
The left finds ways, of course. Is there anything at all that President Trump has said, that they agree with?
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Buley
In retrospect, it may be added that back in 1979 the media was wholeheartedly in support of “student” protesters supporting Khomeini. Jimmy Carter took to the sidelines and watched it happen.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
in 1979 the media was already infiltrated by the state department who wanted to see the shah removed because the arabs were getting nervous about persian displays of modernism and freedoms their own people did not have. all the reports about the shah’s brutality were vacant of the fact that his government was fighting against the enemy within who eventually brought the mullahs to power with the help of our government. we make friends. use them. then overthrow them. the state department has been running this show for a long, long time. our scary anti american anti semitic state department with those ambassadors who seem like nothing more than messenger boys.
6 years ago
Reply to
JGray1
Thanks for the fine monologue. This writer needs to conduct some serious refresher research going back a ways – to 1954 or thereabout, when Mossadegh (and his cleric associate, Khomeini) were routed from Tehran and replaced with Shah Reza Pahlavi. His benevolent leadership lasted until 1979. as Khomeini was welcomed back both as ayatollah and chief mullah. Now under Trump, we see another major change taking place.
Like you, I distrust the role the US Snake Department has played in dealing with Iran. Innocent blood is shed when State chooses to ignore, as it did in 2009, or simply choose the wrong sides, which it has done since the days of Cordell Hull. One winders to what extent the CIA is involved – GHW Bush was director when the Shah was overthrown – I believe.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
In the 80’s, Bush supported the Iranian protesters, telling them he had their back, Then he ignored them as they were tortured, murdered, incarcerated, where many still remain if they’re alive.
6 years ago
Reply to
marlene
You nailed it again, Marlene. Then again, what can one reasonably expect from one who is, above all, an internationalist?
6 years ago
Basically same thing over at MSNBC — they interviewed an Iranian employee, Ayman Mohyeldin, who blamed the protests on the economic conditions and the “unfair” economic sanctions by the US and EU against Iran. It’s the US’s fault that the Iranian economy has not fully recovered in his opinion, and he minimizes the fault of the Iranian government for syphoning the money into their pockets and sponsoring terrorism throughout the region.
The liberal media was hoping to avoid the story altogether hoping that the protests would collapse. Now the MSM is reluctantly reporting but obfuscating. I have nothing but contempt for the liberal media.
6 years ago
Reply to
RCCA
Good points. There will never be economic strength and opportunity for people under an Islamic dictatorship. There cannot be economic growth when there is no freedom of thought and speech. They are the bedrocks of economic growth. No free thought / speech? You have communism. And nothing thrives under communism. Everything dies.
6 years ago
Reply to
RCCA
The liberal main stream media and all the other tentacles of the “progressive” / globalist hegemony (in politics / academia / “Deep State” / big business / entertainment & arts establishment / NGO’s) are PUBLIC ENEMY #1!!! and are far far more dangerous to the future of the free world / the “West” then ~1.6 billion primitive / blood thirsty / Anti Christian / Antisemitic / sex crazed (to varying degrees) muslims will ever be… Tragic but true
6 years ago
Reply to
Tilt
It’s not a competition between 1.6 Muslims and the free world, and I certainly don’t see the dichotomy you describe. After all, those Iranians in the streets are Muslims, in case you have forgotten. I see the problem caused by the entrenched professional political class, both Democrats and RINO’s, as Pamela has pointed out. They have figured out how to milk the system and want to keep on doing that.
IMO, the progressive left will soon have a mental break down as they realize they can not pretend to themselves that they are supporters of freedom while supporting the Islamic establishment of the Mullahs and attacking Trump.
6 years ago
You know that none of the ENMEDIA, will ever give coverage to the Persians who oppose these LOW- LIFE mullahs . We know they would never call ANNI CYRUS and ask her opinion of this iSLAMOFASCIST GARBAGE ! Or BOSCH FAWSTINE on iSLAM in general ! THIS ENMEDIA GARBAGE WOULD BE GIVING US NAZI PROPAGANDA DURING WW2 !
6 years ago
6 years ago
our msm is nothing but crap and is not worth seeing hearing or reading. same as the polls. which is also the same as the stats. this is an orwellian time where nothing should be believed unless it comes directly from the people who are experiencing it. the whole world apart from Israel has an underground now. we are part of that underground. and we are discovering what happens to those who fight those battles. we never thought it would come here yet here it is.
6 years ago
They’re like the rescued Borg, Seven of Nine. Now that the Borg Cube has been destroyed, they don’t know who they are or what they believe.
