The Iranian people are closer to toppling their government than perhaps at any time since the Revolution in 1979. The last time Iranians took to the streets in such numbers since then to seek regime change, one Barack Hussein Obama turned a blind eye, and even struck a deal with Iranian leaders that sent a plane filled with 80 billion in cash dollars to enrich them.
It is doubtful Donald Trump would ever do something like that. Still, after saying the U.S. is “locked and loaded” and ready to come to the aid of the Iranian people should the government turn to bloodshed in response to demonstrations, he is now being lured to the bargaining table by Iranian leaders to discuss a nuclear deal.
Hopefully, a White House meeting scheduled with his advisers on Tuesday to discuss options with Iran will pull him away from the pretense of Iran’s actually negotiating in good faith. Already, more than 500 Iranians have died in the protests, and the Mullahs have sworn the death penalty for those accused of rioting, which of course they can define in any way they please.
The president has a historic opportunity to free the Iranians from their religious dictatorship, whose foreign policy is based on two slogans: “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”
For the sake of the restoration of freedom in Iran, and the removal of the world’s number-one sponsor of terror in the Middle East and throughout the world, Trump needs to act as decisively as he did in Venezuela.
Let’s hope the lure of the bargaining table and Trump’s subsequent opportunity to brag about “peace treaty number nine” doesn’t bring President TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) to the global stage. We need the Central American Swashbuckler of a week ago to deal with the thugs in Iran.
