Iranians in revolt

 Andrea Widburg:

There is a full-scale revolt taking place in Iran. The regime’s depredations against its people, culminating with murdering a young woman for wearing her headscarf wrong, have pushed the beleaguered Iranian people too far. Add in news that Ayatollah Khamenei is dying or may even be dead, and the conditions are very good to end the monstrous theocracy that’s been controlling Iran and fomenting world terrorism for 43 years. However, there’s one important ingredient missing for a successful counter-revolution: Loud moral support from the White House.
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And indeed, revolution seems to be in the wind, After 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in custody because of a loosely worn hijab, people took to the streets. The Iran Human Rights Group says that the regime has been executing people at a rapidly increasing rate. Protestors have gone after the regime’s corrupt media, and students (who once led the Islamic revolution) are now changing about “women, life, freedom.”

If Trump were in the White House, he would be cheering the protesters on. That kind of moral support from the world’s dominant nation (it’s questionable if we’re still the most powerful) is huge. Former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky credits Reagan’s “Evil Empire” remark with giving hope to the opposition within the Soviet Union because it told them they weren’t crazy. The regime couldn’t gaslight them because they’d heard Reagan state the truth. Trump willingly spoke the truth about Iran’s evil at home and abroad.

But Biden isn’t speaking the truth. Instead, like Obama before him, he’s being remarkably silent. In 2009, during Obama’s first year as president, when he was at the peak of his popularity at home and abroad, a corrupt election in Iran led to the massive Iranian Green Movement which was demanding that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leave office. Americans supported the Green Movement. Unfortunately, Obama didn’t. He was silent, offering no encouragement at all to the protesters, and the protests died away.
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Democrats like Biden never miss an opportunity to seize an opportunity to support those who rebel against tyranny like the Islamic religious bigots of Iran.  We should be on the side of those who are fighting against a tyrannical regime like the one in Iran.