Iranian Scholar: Trump Is in Stark Contrast to Obama Who Waited for 11 Days to Offer Support to Iranian People Uprising

‘They are holding the regime accountable to their misery’

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MOINIAN: "In fact, they're not. And that's the irony of all this, the blustering regime against America. Iranians are natural allies of the Americans. This is a sophisticated, educated population. They look to the West, they see all the youth, the same education. Even sometimes not as educated as the Iranian counterparts and they have the lifestyle, they can afford an apartment, can get married, they can move on. The Iranian counterparts are basically repressed, they don't have an outlet for their dissenting voice, they don't have a hope for the future. And it stands in stark contrast to Obama where he waited 11 days, 11 crucial days before he offered support in 2009 uprising to the Iranian people. I was telling you before in the podcast that we did beforehand, that the chants on the street of Iran, out of the 31 provinces, 29 of them erupted in protests. They are not death to America. They are holding the regime accountable for their misery. They're saying not Syria, not Lebanon, my life is only for Iran. So they know that the regime elite is cracking down on them. They know that this is not the regime that they bargained for in the revolution. And they want, as Lara said very aptly, they want the regime to be held accountable."

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