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I agree completely with both you gents. In retrospect, the U.S. not only made a horrible foreign policy decision but over all these decades, we have become facilitators to that oppressive, tyrannical regime. (God only knows what the average Iranian citizen thinks about the U.S.)
Having said that, we mustn't compound a very big mistake either. And I think turning a blind eye to a very wicked and hostile regime is no solution at all. Again...the Iranian people would interpret that as us giving tacit approval to the religious tyrants/zealots that in office. (If Obama were still in office, this is precisely what he would do -- look the other way!) We should act based on the present situation and the future. Iran is too dangerous to ignore. And more than this -- the Iranian government has dangerous allies even more wicked them themselves: China and Russia!
If these protests continue, Iran is going to have to make some tough decisions. Either quell the demonstrations with violence while the entire world witnesses their barbaric, murderous cruelty motivated by their religion, thereby losing politically correct Muslim brownie points all over the socialist world order, or they'll pull a classic move by distracting the world from its internal problems by focusing everyone's attention on an external problem instead. For example, Israel to name an obvious one.
Trump will have his work cut out for him if this civil unrest persists over there.
He should start thinking who his Arab friends are and if they can be used to persuade Iran to back off their oppressive ways. Assuming, the U.S. has any Arab friends in the world, he could play the Muslim Public Relations card and how Iran's oppressive actions would not serve Islam well from a PR perspective. This would be my first line of positive diplomatic action.
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