The Amnesia of Samantha Power
The Obama administration’s chief enabler of Iranian tyranny is now shocked at the mullahs’ behavior. spectator.org/the-amnesia-of…
The Obama administration’s chief enabler of Iranian tyranny is now shocked at the mullahs’ behavior. spectator.org/the-amnesia-of…
Shortly after Trump took office in Jan. 2017, amid what appears to be a full-on campaign of sabotage of his presidency, including illegal unmasking of US citizens caught on FISA wiretaps, including fairly definitive participation by Samantha Power, Obama’s #IranDeal was canceled.
And when it was, this was what Samantha Power said:
“Trump has demolished America’s credibility & paved the way for Iran to re-start its nuclear program. Trump has done the unthinkable: isolated the US & rallied the world around Iran.”
“Trump has demolished America’s credibility & paved the way for Iran to re-start its nuclear program. Trump has done the unthinkable: isolated the US & rallied the world around Iran.”
It’s since been proven that Iran never stopped its nuclear program, and the Iranians have stepped up efforts, unsuccessfully, to provoke a war with the United States as those sanctions strangle their economy.
Unsurprisingly, amid a far more successful application of pressure in this administration than that Power and Obama managed, the Iranian citizens are once again demanding a better government and more human rights.
And also unsurprisingly, the Iranian regime Power and Obama thought was worth airdropping $150 billion on has resorted to violence and suppression in response.
Yes, Samantha. We know. We knew 10 years ago when the admin you worked in did nothing when Iranians took to the streets to reclaim their freedom & dignity from an enemy, rogue regime that, since 1979, had been in a declared state of war w/the US & committed countless acts of war.
And your response was to pay them $150 billion in cash, without the approval of Congress.
And don’t give us the lie that the $150B was *their* money, because it was seized in response to an act of war committed when the Iranians took the US embassy staff hostage: an action that has never been recognized or atoned for.
When that murderous regime is finally toppled and something actually representative of the Iranian people who are far less anti-American than the mullahs who rule them or the political elite represented by Power and others in the Obama admin replaces it, there will be a reckoning
Not with America per se, but with Samantha Power and the American Left, who have enabled the tyranny of the mullahs for so long.
