MSNBC Guest: Iran Has ‘Good Reason To Distrust The United States’

‘America is so often wrong historically, so often wrong in the Middle East’

O'DONNELL: “Nina, you know the region much better than I do, as does everyone here, so your take on where we are?”
BURLEIGH: “Well, obviously I’m not in Switzerland and I’m not up to speed on exactly what's going on behind those closed doors. So very broadly, I can say that America is so often wrong historically. Has been so often wrong on the Middle East. OK. Let’s start there. In 1953, the United States engineered a coup crushing the moment of democracy in Iran. There have been other examples of that, of American behavior in the Middle East like that, and God speak to Kerry and these people who are working with the Iranians now. The Iranians have good reason not to distrust -- sorry, to distrust the United States. And we have to talk to them. I mean, they are the relatively stable, they are relatively democratic country in the Middle East. They are not Saudi Arabia.”

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