Adam Kinzinger on Trump’s Threats Over Iran’s Protest Crackdown: Intervening as a Result of This Uprising ‘Would Only Be Counterproductive’

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KINZINGER: “No, I don‘t. And, you know, look, it‘s — I think there was some questions before all this started about has Iran restarted its nuclear program or its missile program because there were a lot of — there‘s a lot of kind of traffic going into Iran, which was curious. So I think it‘s possible that there could be renewed strikes at some point related to that. But I think, you know, intervening as a result of this — let‘s actually call it an uprising, it‘s pretty close to an uprising now — would only be counterproductive because right now, this is what in the past Iran has actually used to put these protests down. They‘ve used obviously very heavy-handed tactics and then tried to create an external enemy as if — and then say, like, basically we‘re all in this together against, you know, the great Satan, the United States of America. And so, I think, while I don‘t appreciate what the president is doing in terms of talking big on social media because I just, I still believe in the speak softly, carry a big stick, I think it would be a big mistake to intervene in the middle of it, because that just creates an external enemy. Right now, it appears that there are a significant number of Iranians that want regime change in Iran coming from themselves, and there is nothing wrong with regime change coming from inside.”