It seems that the U.S. Iran honeymoon appears to be over
It’s Sunday, July 5, and when I think of America, I think of Reagan-era, American-dream action movies—Rocky, Rambo, Top Gun—something just oozing red, white and blue. Over the weekend, I got some déjà vu.
“For 250 years, the United States of America has been the hope, the promise, the light and the glory among all of the nations of the world,” Trump declared in his Fourth of July address on the National Mall, fireworks lighting up the sky behind him.
Cut. Pan the camera. Transition to an entirely different ceremony. “TEHRAN” flashes at the bottom of the screen. Hundreds of thousands of mourners are packed into the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque for the funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. An emcee at the podium calls for Trump’s death before the crowd. The response is instant: thousands of voices erupt into “Death to America! Death to Israel!”