Who knows how it will turn out but it is a good thing and it’s been AWOL for 8 years.
Trump said this at the UN some months ago—and he was probably castigated in some quarters for it:
By my count, in the speech’s several paragraphs devoted to Iran, at least 11 of 17 sentences served to highlight specific ways that the regime has failed the Iranian people. Thus, the regime “masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of democracy.” It “has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state” whose “longest-suffering victims … are, in fact, its own people.” Rather than using Iran’s vast oil profits to “improve Iranian lives,” the regime wastes this wealth — “which rightly belongs to the Iranian people” — on foreign adventures, from “fund[ing] Hezbollah and other terrorists that kill innocent Muslims” to “shor[ing] up Bashar al-Assad’s criminal dictatorship, fuel[ing] Yemen’s civil war, and undermin[ing] peace throughout the Middle East.”
The entire world knows, Trump concluded, that “the good people of Iran want change” and that “Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most.” That is why the mullahs “restrict internet access, tear down satellite dishes, shoot unarmed student protesters, and imprison political reformers.” Trump finished with the provocative prediction that “oppressive regimes cannot endure forever” and that the day will come when Iran’s people face a choice: “To continue down the path of poverty, bloodshed and terror” or “return to the nation’s proud roots as a center of civilization, culture and wealth where their people can be happy and prosperous once again?”
It was relentless and quite remarkable. Unprecedented even. I can’t recall any previous U.S. president using their speech to the General Assembly to address the longstanding grievances of the Iranian people in such a sustained and comprehensive manner. It definitely never happened during the eight years of Barrack Obama’s presidency. Quite the opposite. Not even in his first U.N. address in September 2009, with the Green Revolution at its height and young Iranian protesters chanting, “Obama, you are either with us or with them [the regime],” did the 44th president deign to deliver a single word of solace to those being mowed down in the streets of Tehran.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/22...the-most-important-part-of-trumps-u-n-speech/
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I don’t recall Trump saying this, but one has wonder whether the Iranian people heard it and remember it well.
