Ya, cutting off your nose to spite your face will make america safe
11 Iranians were caught last month trying to cross the border.
They shoulda drove drunk across.
How many people have died as a result of Trump tearing up that treaty? You'd be at war with Iran right now if not for the sanity and forebearance of the Ayatollahs. When the Iranian Ayatollahs, the least sane and reasonable people in the world, behave more logically than the President of the United States of America, the world is in trouble.
When Trump took office, Iran was 10 years away from a nuclear weapon, and reducing that nuclear capability. As Trump leaves office, Iran has NOT made any overt moves to acquire a nuclear weapon, even though it could have. The other nations in the treaty, have encourage Iran to maintain compliance for the day that Trump was gone.
What most American fail to realize is that Iran was never YOUR enemy. YOU are their enemy - and with good reason. The USA imposed the Shah of Iran as the head of the Iranian government when Harry Truman was in office. The Shah of Iran makes Assad and Saddam Hussein look like a choir boy, in terms of the treatment of his own people. The term "reign of terror" comes to mind. All to keep Iran from becoming "communist".
The CIA worked to expose opposition to the Shah, and then turned "traitors" over to the Shah and his secret police for "final disposition". The American government kept the Shah's palace guard equipped with weapons, training, and logisitics support to keep the "communists" at bay. This Britannica piece on the Shah of Iran, focusses on his economic development and co-operation with the West. It hints at widespread opposition to his rule, without explaining why.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, shah of Iran (1941–79). A power struggle between him and Mohammad Mosaddegh led to the latter’s ouster in 1953, with help from the United States and the United Kingdom. The shah’s White Revolution fostered development but harmed many Iranians. He was ousted in the...
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The Shah was personally pocketing most of that oil money. It was going to him, his family members, and the oligarchy. Much like the Saudi princes. Except that the Saudis have also ensured a good quality of life for their own people, while providing opulent lives for themselves. The Shah didn't do any of that. His people lived in abject poverty while he built lavish palaces and sat on the Peacock Throne. Note the lavishness of all of the backdrops in these photos. The furs, the jewels, gold everywhere:
The Shah of Iran killed nearly 100,000 Iranians to stifle dissent - with the full knowledge and support of the CIA and various American governments, from both sides of the aisle. They put him in office, and they kept him there, and they knew what he was doing. Better dead than red.
That's how you make an enemy of the Iranian people. The whole point of the Iranian Agreement was to try to bring Iran, back into basically, not supporting anti-Western terrorism. It was really ******* difficult to get them to the table in the first place because they don't trust the west - and who can blame them?
Donald Trump completely validated all of their beliefs that the West was not to be trusted. They could have built a nuclear weapon by now if they wanted one. So let's deal with reality, not the fairy tales the right tells you about Iran.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The halls of the former prison in the heart of Iran's capital now are hushed, befitting the sounds of the museum that it has become.
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