The Iranian people are fed up with the crazy Mullahs and Iranian the military will not fight just to keep them in power. The reason the Iranians fought Sadam's Iraq for ten years during the 80's (and both sides lost a million people) was because they were defending their homeland.
You are right. The Iranian population is moving away from the hard liners. Something Bush & Trump can't figure out.
The difference is Obama turned his back on the Iranian people and got in his knees and licked the Mullah's sandals, while Trump is doing the exact opposite.
Obama To Iran Green Revolution Dissidents: Drop Dead | Investor's Business Daily
Michael Oren: Obama rejected Iran Green Revolution for nuclear deal
Obama’s failure to help Iranian protesters has been criticized since then by Israeli officials, led by Jewish Agency chairman and former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who has called it the biggest failure to help human rights in modern history.
Oh fuck you. He did no such thing.
Obama knew that the US getting involved would just help the Mullahs. Trump is an asshole who knows nothing about Iran or the Middle East.
Nobody was asking the US to get "involved", idiot. However, the president of the US and the leader of the free world could have made a statement showing a modicum of support for the people's right to human rights, women's rights, gay rights, and freedom of speech and expression, as opposed to getting on his knees in front of a bunch of bloodthirsty, barbaric Islamic animals that are oppressing and killing their own people.
- On June 15, 2009, on the third day of protests, Obama said he was “deeply troubled by the violence” against protesters and urged Iranian leaders to respect “the ability of people to peacefully dissent.”
- On June 20, 2009, Obama urged the Iranian government “to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people,” and declared that the U.S. “stands with all who seek to exercise” free speech and the right of assembly.
- On June 23, 2009, Obama said: “I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost.”
Leftist garbage propaganda. He stabbed the Iranian people in the back, the Iranian know it.
Why Obama Let Iran's Green Revolution Fail
Obama wasn't just reluctant to show solidarity in 2009, he feared the demonstrations would sabotage his secret outreach to Iran. In his new book,
"The Iran Wars," Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon uncovers new details on how far Obama went to avoid helping Iran's green movement. Behind the scenes, Obama overruled advisers who wanted to do what America had done at similar transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and signal America's support.
Solomon reports that Obama ordered the CIA to sever contacts it had with the green movement's supporters. "The Agency has contingency plans for supporting democratic uprisings anywhere in the world. This includes providing dissidents with communications, money, and in extreme cases even arms," Solomon writes. "But in this case the White House ordered it to stand down."
It's worth contrasting Obama's response with how the U.S. has reacted to other democratic uprisings. The State Department, for example, ran a program in 2000 through the U.S. embassy in Hungary to train Serbian activists in nonviolent resistance against their dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic, too, accused his opposition of being pawns of the U.S. government. But in the end his people forced the dictator from power.
Similarly, when Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze met with popular protests in 2003 after rigged elections, George W. Bush dispatched James Baker to urge him to step down peacefully, which he did. Even the Obama administration provided diplomatic and moral support for popular uprisings in Egypt in 2011 and Ukraine in 2014.
