The people of Iran are actually pro-Western. The religious leadership is the “Death to America” crowd.
Ever wonder why Obama did not lift a finger when the Iranian people were fighting against the government?
If that were true, they never would have put up with the Revolutionary Guard and/or the Mullahs and would have overthrown them already; they would have insisted on keeping the Shah to boot. You can’t repress a whole country of Neda Agha-Soltans.
~The people of Iran are actually pro-Western. The religious leadership is the “Death to America” crowd.
Ever wonder why Obama did not lift a finger when the Iranian people were fighting against the government?~
You are 100% right. Situation is a bit different now when it was at the time though.
I think you mean were pro-western since I believe the majority of Persians (as they prefer to be called) emigrated to the west after the fall of the Shah.
As is well known, Obama stands with Mooselimbs, should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
In the case of Iran, the Mooselimbs under assault in 2009 were the the leadership of Iran. The "political winds" were the ordinary people of Iran. Obama stood with the Mooselimbs (the leadership) by failing to assist those ordinary people. It's his world-view, his big picture. The President of the United States is scum. It's a fact. But we already knew that.
A President Kissinger would not have acted so stupidly. But he isn't natural born, dontcha know.