Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Why Obama Betrayed the Iranian People

Why Obama Betrayed the Iranian People American Thinker

Why did President Obama refuse to support the demonstrators in Iran in 2009, but supported the "Arab Spring" in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere more recently?

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In 2009, demonstrators filled the streets of Iran, denouncing the regime and crying out for freedom.  It was a glorious opportunity for the leader of the free world to demonstrate his support for free people everywhere and strike a decisive blow against the bloody regime that had considered itself at war with the United States for three decades.

But Barack Obama didn't help them.  Quite the contrary.  The leader of the free world was too busy extending his hand to those same mullahs.

It was monstrous when Obama stood by and did nothing during the abortive Iranian revolution; instead, he bought ice cream and posed for photo ops on the golf course while the only revolution against Islamic rule in a Muslim country was taking flight in Iran.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed one reason why last week: the Obama administration's Iranian advisers told them not to express support for the protesters.

"At the time," Hillary said, "the most insistent voices within the Green Movement and the supporters from outside of Iran were that we, the United States, had to be very careful not to look like what was happening inside Iran was directed by… the United States. So we were torn. … [W]e kept being cautioned that we would put people's lives in danger, we would discredit the movement, we would undermine their aspirations."

Now the Foundation for Democracy in Iran has revealed that Hillary's advisors on Iran included Trita Parsi.

Trita Parsi is the president of the George Soros-funded National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a powerful Iranian lobbying group in Washington.  Arash Irandoost of the Pro-Democracy Movement of Iran calls Parsi "an intellectually dishonest regime apologist and an unofficial and unregistered lobbyist for the Iranian regime."  According  to Irandoost, "Trita Parsi contributes to the regime's agenda and serves the interests of those in power in the Islamic Republic of Iran, not the Iranians, nor the Iranian-Americans."

And the Progressive American-Iranian Committee says that when NIAC and Parsi received funding for various projects from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), "NIAC's projects were approved and welcomed by the Iranian regime."  NIAC coordinated its work inside Iran with Hamyaran, a "government initiated agency incepted, initiated, founded and managed by the Iranian regime."  NIAC and Parsi even lobbied the U.S. Congress to "stop appropriating funds for independent democratic movements and NGOs that were not under Hamyaran or regime's control."

Not surprisingly, Parsi opposes sanctions against the Islamic Republic, claiming that "imposing new sanctions prior to diplomacy having begun will only decrease the chances of successful diplomacy."  The NIAC has opposed sanctions for quite some time.  Iranian dissident Hassan Daioleslam notes that "in 2008, when [the] U.S. Congress was showing some teeth to the Iranian regime," a coalition of Islamic groups, antiwar groups, and others founded the Campaign for New American Policy on Iran to fight against new sanctions against Iran called for by the advisory resolution H.R. 362.  This resolution was not passed, and "NIAC and Parsi," says Daioleslam, "were on top of this event."

No strike on Iran.  No sanctions.  Just diplomacy — with a genocidally inclined and fanatically intransigent regime whose contempt for Obama's overtures made the president look increasingly beggarly as his presidency wore on.

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Annie

12 years ago

Ever since the nazi’s recruited little George Soros into the nazi youth- pretty much everything evil with mega money backing… has his evil fingers all over it.

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ApolloSpeaks

12 years ago

“The “leader of the free world” says Pam of Obama. You mean the leader of the free world from behind (or from his arse) don’t you? Last year at Brussels gaffe-a-million Joe said that “Brussels (not Washington) was the “capital of the free world.” If it were otherwise the oppressed Iranian people might now be free of the apocalyptic mullahs and the mad Ahmadinejad.

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Jamadagnii

12 years ago

I, too, had the sense at the time that if the US pushed too hard the Iranian government would have used that “foreign interference” as an excuse for an even more brutal and vicious crackdown against the Iranian people. Whether that was true or the result of the impression I received from media reports and this deliberate obfuscation, I really can’t say.
So why aren’t we going into Syria??

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Gary Huggins

12 years ago

Anyone that cannot understand the war that is going on between Islam and anyone else is either deaf, dumb, and blind or dead already. There are no moderate Muslims. There are only Muslims who have not shown their true nature.
Many years ago, I had the experience of working with Muslims. I have never feared for my personal safety at an occupation more than then. If I have personal dealings with an Islamic-based org., I would automatically assume that lies would be told by the organization. The Islamic rule is one can lie to a non-Islam for the purpose of enslavement or conversion to Islam. One must pick one’s path and be responsible for the
decision. Seems Obama has chosen his by his actions. I automatically assume Obama is lying every time he opens his mouth.

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Diane - Expat Taxes

12 years ago

Very Informative. I just launched my own expatriate tax return service for expatriates.

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Patti

12 years ago

I agree Pam,,this was an historic missed opportunity. Obama would have been in the history books,, for the RIGHT reason. He blew it.

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Isabellathecrusader

12 years ago

Sorry folks. Hillary Clinton was never “torn” on this subject.

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KKKK

12 years ago

i find osama-obama disturbing myslef. he could not bring himself to help the oppressed people of Iran in their time of need, offically because he “refused to medal in Iranian elections,” but really becuase of the power of the Iran lobby. i wonder if his “pastor” Jeremiah Wright owuld have invited the NIAC to come to his church to speak on howe we have “oppressed the Iranian peoeple” if he knew this group exists?
osama-obama knwos that this regime in tehrn is a terro regime bent on destorying Israel and annhilating America…and he’s not doing one iota about it! he can’t care for America, or Israel, or the Iranian people, or anyone or anything outside his little imaginery kuymaba dream world.

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ARNOLD CARL TAPP

12 years ago

LADY PAMELA ~ MANY ORCHIDS FOR MORE THAN 30,000,000 ( THIRTY MILLION ) VISITS TO
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ” ATLAS SHRUGS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< MAKAHAYAN

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Pollcat

12 years ago

What should the United States do about Iran? Vote at the link, you don’t have to register to vote or comment.

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