Trump Heats Up Feud With Iran
The Huffington Post exclaims that “Donald Trump Heats Up Feud With Iran By Praising Anti-Government Protests”.
I’m not sure how much he could “heat up” a feud with Iran, the country that declared war on us in 1979 and the country that helped Shi’ite militias in Iraq kill US troops with their special IED explosives with guidance from Quds Force advisors.
The Iranian government denounced President Donald Trump on Saturday after he escalated his support for the anti-government protesters who have been holding demonstrations in the country for three days.
Trump tweeted Friday his praise of the “peaceful protests” in Iran, calling protesters “Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption & its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad.”
On Saturday, the president tweeted two video clips of his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September, in which he called the Iranian government an “oppressive regime” and suggested that Iran’s leaders are afraid of their own citizens.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi responded to Trump’s amped-up support in a state television report Saturday by insisting that “Iranian people give no credit to the deceitful and opportunist remarks of U.S. officials or Mr. Trump,” according to The Associated Press.
CNN reports that two protesters have died in the “peaceful protests” in Tehran. The government has also blocked the Telegraph mobile messaging application, although the desktop app remains unaffected.
“Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption & its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad. Iranian govt should respect their people’s rights, including right to express themselves.” Trump added.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi pushed back against the US comments a day later, saying the Iranian people gave no credence to such “opportunistic” remarks by Trump or his administration.
His statement on the Foreign Ministry website also described “Mr Trump’s government” as the main source of ill will toward Iran.
Iranian officials have pointed to foreign intervention as being behind the anti-government protests.
I guess the media misses the Nobel-winning presidential touch which coddles the mullahs who have no illusions about their war against the United States.
In another link, CNN reports that five protesters were shot in Durod in the western part of Iran. So, tell me, who should President Trump support in this conflagration? If not the oppressed rebellious protesters, should he lend his support to the oppressive government, like his predecessor?
Category: Terror War
Foreign intervention? One can’t walk across Iran’s border anywhere, without getting arrested. How, exactly, are any furriners intervening?
Probably “foreign thoughts” as in “why can’t we be free to think or dance like everybody else without fear of arrest.”
SCoaMF remained mum so not to spoil Lurch’s fabulous nuke deal with the Mad Mullahs. This is Trump doing what he does best- stir the pot and see what floats up. And it’s long overdue.
” … it’s long overdue.”
Preach it!
Payback is coming.
America has not forgotten.
I’m neither a Trumpist nor a NeverTrumper (thank Christ it wasn’t Das Hildabeast), and Trump can certainly make an ass of himself on twitter, but I find it interesting that they attack him for saying something that’s objectively %100 true.
Iran has been all screwed up since Jimmeh Kahtuh dropped the ball during his time in Office but the TARDOS on the left won’t let that fact get in the way of them parading their idiocy for all to see.
Folks like terrorists and lefties who are determined to find excuses to hate us, whether one exists or not, will either find one or invent one no matter what we do or do not do. Best tactic is to live well in spite of them. No, we cannot just ignore them. Evidently they want to be eliminated, since they will not allow coexistence.
Not really any of our business. Let someone else play the villain or the good guy or whatever role we usually play depending on the perspective.
The problem is our Enemies support our enemies every time, no matter whether they are actually friends or not between them.
I say we should give some type of support to the enemies of our Enemies, even though they might not be our friends.
“The friend of my enemy is my enemy.”
“The enemy of my friend is my enemy.”
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
-Middle Eastern Proverb
We HAVE supported people in the past when they were enemies of our enemies and not exactly our friends like when we supported Sadaam Hussein in his war against Iran before he went extra-nuts on us, that’s just one example of when we’ve tolerated a tyrant because he was judged to be the lesser of other evils. Another example is how we allowed Muammar Quadaffi, look at the anarchistic hellhole Libya became after Das Hildebeast allowed him to be overthrown.
The enemy of my enemy is my ememy’s enemy. Nothing more. Nothing less.
This is true. What is also true is that we are stretched thin.
It would be utter folly to not use anything and everything that would aid us in overcoming the disaster of the last administration, IMO.
YMMV
It is essential to understand the difference between “friend”, ” ally”, “co-belligerent”, and “a common enemy”.
Not the same, and not even remotely equivalent. We are far to likely to assume things that simply are not so.
I agree. Hopefully St. Mattis will be able to help them keep their eye on the ball.
Especially those idiots in State.
At least with Qaddafi he turned over his WMD materiel and intelligence to us, and stopped funding terrorism after we invaded Iraq. True was still a ruthless dictator, but he behaved himself outside his borders.
There are those who argue that Hussein wouldn’t have invaded Kuwait if Bush’s ambassador had been blunt with him. According to some sources he thought he had tacit approval from the US. Then again Bush ’41 arguably screwed up by sending a female ambassador in the first place.
I think the majority of the “people” OF Iran are our friends, at one time it was a friend of the US and a christian nation, the morons still call King Cyrus a hero! and he helped rebuild Jerusalem, but that scalds the mullahs well worn ass!
Many on the left view the United States as the root cause of the world’s problems. Thus all who oppose the USA are the “good guys”. Those left-loons will make common cause with murderous theocrats, on the assumption that the left-loons will get to build their utopia once the USA is properly constrained/humbled/absent. They really can’t envision life on the wrong end of the slaver’s whip, because they intend to wield it, not receive it.
For everyone’s own good, of course.
Many of them really and truly believe that -we- cause all that terrorism stuff by not being more inoffensive. It is not like they actually -read- what their allies are saying, or note what they actually do. Since they have common goals, like “death to Israel”, they can overlook the excesses.
And discussion has become largely impossible. They cannot concede any of the points, even the contradictory ones, or their whole worldview falls apart. Anger becomes the only major response, often all the way over to “oh yeah? Well I will show you! (by actively aiding enemies of the USA).”
Excellent points.
Lenin called them “Useful idiots” and he was quite correct.
Yep
Gee whiz, a Country that regularly has Government-sponsored shout-a-thons where they scream “Death to America” and the Huffy-poo’s Screeching Flower Monkeys howl that it’s now President Trump’s fault? Yet another bunch of candyassed nitwitted imbeciles.
Meh. HuffPo = Pravda on the Potomac.
I always thought the same about The Washington [Com]Post!
Pravda- Truth
Izvestia- News
“There is no truth in news, or news in truth.”
Proverb, Soviet Russia, circa 1917
Edited to add:
My point being, not a whole lot has really changed.
Iran denounced Trump?? Let’s see hands of those who are surprised (mine is not raised)
Barry did NOTHING in 2009 when they tried to
bring about change.
AND speaking of doing nothing, neither did pinhead Eisenhower who encouraged people behind the iron curtain only to do nothing in ’56.
My dad doesn’t think too much of Ike, either.
Before my time …
From the preamble to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Page 5(?); ” With due attention to the Islamic content of the Iranian Revolution, which has been a movement aimed at the triumph of all the mustad’afun over the mustakbirun, the Constitution provides the necessary basis for ensuring the continuation of the Revolution at home and abroad. In particular, in the development of international relations, the Constitution will strive with other Islamic and popular movements to prepare the way for the formation of a single world community (in accordance with the Qur’anic verse “This your community is a single community, and I am your Lord, so worship Me” [21:92]), and to assure the continuation of the struggle for the liberation of all deprived and oppressed peoples in the world.content of the Iranian Revolution, which has been a movement aimed at the triumph of all the mustad’afun over the mustakbirun, the Constitution provides the necessary basis for ensuring the continuation of the Revolution at home and abroad. In particular, in the development of international relations, the Constitution will strive with other Islamic and popular movements to prepare the way for the formation of a single world community (in accordance with the Qur’anic verse “This your community is a single community, and I am your Lord, so worship Me” [21:92]), and to assure the continuation of the struggle for the liberation of all deprived and oppressed peoples in the world.” “With due attention to the Islamic content of the Iranian Revolution, which has been a movement aimed at the triumph of all the mustad’afun over the mustakbirun, the Constitution provides the necessary basis for ensuring the continuation of the Revolution at home and abroad. In particular, in the development of international relations, the Constitution will strive with other Islamic and popular movements to prepare the way for the formation of a single world community (in accordance with the Qur’anic verse “This your community is a single community, and I am your Lord, so worship Me” [21:92]), and to assure the continuation of the struggle for the liberation of all deprived… Read more »
Obama and Libtards gonna be so mad if Iran removes it’s Mullahs with the encourage of President Trump. Obama is probably crying himself to sleep now days.
They were already blaming Trump for instigating the protests in the first place, so they’re going to take shots at him & this country no matter what.