Obama right to be circumspect
HOURS AFTER reading Jeff Jacoby’s column criticizing President Obama’s cautious response to the protests in Iran (“Obama’s restraint on Iran,’’ Op-ed), I was reading reports that the regime in Tehran was already blaming the US for the demonstrations.
Iran’s current government was created after the toppling of the shah, an American proxy.
It has subsisted for 30 years on anti-American rhetoric, and like all authoritarian states it uses imagined external threats to cement its power at home and crush dissent.
[Sound familiar?]
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