Karim Sadjadpour: “The fate of a 2,500-year-old nation and its 93 million inhabitants rests, for now, in the hands of Donald Trump.
“On a least eight occasions over the past three weeks, Trump encouraged Iranian protesters into the streets, assuring them that the United States had their back and ‘help is on the way.’ He threatened that if the Iranian regime killed protesters, the U.S. was ‘locked and loaded’ to take action …
“Trump now faces a fateful choice. He can make good on his promise and risk the always-unpredictable consequences of military action, or he can face the shame of having given false encouragement to freedom fighters and emboldened one of America’s fiercest adversaries.
“If Trump chooses not to act, his encouragement of the Iranian people to rise up, his repeated promises of U.S. support, and his subsequent abandonment of them will be remembered as one of the most callous examples of presidential betrayal in modern history. Expressing moral support for protesters was the right thing to do. But inciting them to rise up and promising intervention, only to watch them get mowed down by the thousands, will be counted as an act of cruelty …
“What could guide him, however, is concern for the damage that inaction will do to his strongman image. Trump does not enjoy being made to look weak, or being ridiculed. And much as Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro did in the weeks before his capture, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has over the past week taunted Trump as a ‘tyrant’ who ‘will be overthrown.’ Being made to look ineffectual—particularly at a moment when public opinion would reward him for toughness—could well goad Trump into taking action.”
Can anybody explain what at all has Trump to do with the fate of Iranians and who vested him with the power to decide the fate of a nation on the other end of the world?
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No more Middle East conflict involvement. The American people do not want this anymore, we are not the world police.
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Trump was bluffing. The Iranian regime knew it, because no other country in the Middle East supports removing their regime. They have no love for the Iranian regime, but they don’t want their regimes to be possibly challenged.
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Karim Sadjadpour: “The fate of a 2,500-year-old nation and its 93 million inhabitants rests, for now, in the hands of Donald Trump.
“On a least eight occasions over the past three weeks, Trump encouraged Iranian protesters into the streets, assuring them that the United States had their back and ‘help is on the way.’ He threatened that if the Iranian regime killed protesters, the U.S. was ‘locked and loaded’ to take action …
“Trump now faces a fateful choice. He can make good on his promise and risk the always-unpredictable consequences of military action, or he can face the shame of having given false encouragement to freedom fighters and emboldened one of America’s fiercest adversaries.
“If Trump chooses not to act, his encouragement of the Iranian people to rise up, his repeated promises of U.S. support, and his subsequent abandonment of them will be remembered as one of the most callous examples of presidential betrayal in modern history. Expressing moral support for protesters was the right thing to do. But inciting them to rise up and promising intervention, only to watch them get mowed down by the thousands, will be counted as an act of cruelty …
“What could guide him, however, is concern for the damage that inaction will do to his strongman image. Trump does not enjoy being made to look weak, or being ridiculed. And much as Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro did in the weeks before his capture, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has over the past week taunted Trump as a ‘tyrant’ who ‘will be overthrown.’ Being made to look ineffectual—particularly at a moment when public opinion would reward him for toughness—could well goad Trump into taking action.”
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Can anybody explain what at all has Trump to do with the fate of Iranians and who vested him with the power to decide the fate of a nation on the other end of the world?
No more Middle East conflict involvement. The American people do not want this anymore, we are not the world police.
Trump was bluffing. The Iranian regime knew it, because no other country in the Middle East supports removing their regime. They have no love for the Iranian regime, but they don’t want their regimes to be possibly challenged.