Trump on the revolt in Iran: Imperialist hypocrisy and sinister “support”

"Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever," U.S. President Donald Trump bellowed on Twitter as he called for "change" in Iran". Trump’s representative to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, went on to add: “And let there be no doubt whatsoever, the United States stands unapologetically with those in Iran who seek freedom for themselves, prosperity for their families and dignity for their nation."

The fact is that this monster and his regime, who banned ordinary Iranians from entering the U.S., seek to justify economic sanctions that would punish ordinary Iranians to force them to accept a government more to the U.S.'s liking. The "change" Trump wants is like what the U.S. brought to Iran in 1953, when, along with Britain, the CIA organized a coup against the secular, nationalist government headed by Mohammad Mosaddegh, and replaced it with the direct rule of a monarch. Shah Reza Pahlavi's regime was a main pillar for U.S. domination of the Middle East for decades. Moreover, its brutality and the subordination of Iran's economy to the West created the conditions that allowed the Islamists to seize power in 1979. Trump may hope that Americans know nothing of this, but Iranians haven't forgotten.

The truth is that although Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is a representative of the thoroughly reactionary regime targeted by thousands of Iranians in recent days, he won an election with a far higher percentage of votes than Trump, who, in fact, was opposed by the majority of voters. They are equally (il)-legitimate. What right does a Nazi-loving, woman-hating promoter of religious rule and intolerance like Trump have to criticize his mullah counterparts!? Underlying this outrageous imperialist hypocrisy is the ominous future Trump seeks for Iran: to make it an outright neocolony whose people can be even more thoroughly crushed and squeezed dry to help "Make America Great Again" as the world's uncontested dominant imperialist power.