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Westwood (in Los Angeles), which is sometimes called "Little Tehran" due to the large Persian population, had a massive demonstration in support of the strikes this past Sunday.
They want their country back. I can relate to that. I want my country back too.
When would you say you lost it?
Good question. Probably before I was born.
Dang.
Probably 1913, when both the Federal Reserve was created and when the US Federal Government was granted the power to levy direct taxes.
Yes. That's a good place to start.
The part that has really struck me though are the videos from inside Iran itself where people are celebrating and tearing things down again. The Regimes response has practically been shooting people on the street and that historically speaking does not work long term.
My understanding from talking to people is that while the Shah was corrupt and repressive he was at the same time much more hands off in certain areas. What replaced the Shah though has been a blanket repressive Regime or rather just something much worse than what they had.
Agreed. I'm not arguing about Iranian politics. Trump ran against forever wars, and specifically against getting involved in this situation. The administration's argument as to why we started this changes daily. Ultimately, it seems more and more that Israel decides what we do.
Personally the only person in the Admin who seems to be able to keep his story straight over the vast majority of the things going on is Sec. Rubio.
I agree to a point with the Israel point when it comes to attacks on Iran and how the dominos were going to fall. Iran was always going to hold us responsible for Israel attacking them. With Gaza Trump has done a surprisingly decent job there and I did not see that coming at all. Not only are hostilities down but Israel pulled out of so many areas and aid has ramped up considerably. We even have some cooperation with the Islamic World on reconstruction and helping Gaza.
To me this would be the same sort of thing that would happen if North Korea and South Korea heated up again and they started lobbing missiles at each other. Even if the U.S. was just sitting there without having done a single thing North Korea would lob things at us and we would have to respond.
I was in DC in 1979 and the early 1980s. Many of my college classmates were the sons and daughters of the Shah's supporters who fled Iran. No doubt the diaspora is happy.