White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders hammered the Obama Administration for ‘sitting silently by’ during protests by the Iranian people in 2009.
Sanders referred to the Green Revolution of 2009, also known as the Persian Spring, in which protesters similarly took to the streets to object to the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Players in the uprising reached out to the Obama Administration for support, only to be met by silence.
“President Trump is not going to sit by silently like President Obama did,” Sanders said. “He certainly supports the Iranian people and wants to make that clear.”
Obama, however, through inaction, supported the Iranian regime. That regime ended up imprisoning the protesters and even killing a number of them.
.@PressSec on Iranian protesters: “President Trump’s not going to sit by silently like President Obama did.” https://t.co/zz76komxsq pic.twitter.com/0meAhRhLDd
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 2, 2018
Former President Obama was so completely on the wrong side of history during the Green Movement that Sanders cited Hillary Clinton as a voice of reason on the matter.
“No, I think one of the big things that even Hillary Clinton outlined in this when she said that the Obama Administration was to restrained in the 2009 protest and said that that won’t happen again,” Sanders outlined. “For once, she is right and we agree with her.”
President Trump has been unapologetically supportive of the protesters but has fallen short of calling for regime change in Iran.
The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their “pockets.” The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
“The United States supports the Iranian people and we call on the regime to respect its citizens’ basic right to peacefully express their desire for change,” Sanders added.
You mean no more billions of our tax dollars delivered secretly and under the cover of darkness? Well hot damn!!!!
— Dianne Crandall (@twifan_nana) January 2, 2018
While Obama was squashing protesters in 2009 through inaction and handing over pallets of cash to the mullahs in 2016, Trump is supporting the people.
What a concept.
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