For 46 years, the Revolutionary Islamic Government has tortured the people of Iran. From the moment that the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in Paris, he managed to propel one of the world’s great cultures into a new Dark Age.
Since 1979, that regime has slaughtered and executed its domestic political opponents. It has publicly hanged people convicted of “crimes against morality,” including people convicted for the “crime” of being gay. It has sponsored terrorism across the Middle East, Europe and America.
The regime has been the biggest colonizing, imperialist power in the Middle East. And it has tried to kill a US president, a US secretary of state and a US national security adviser — among others — on American soil.
Given all of that, you might have thought that there would be marches against the ayatollahs most weeks in Western cities. But there never has been. When the Iranian people have risen up in the past (as in the 2009 Green Revolution), they did so alone. Back then, President Barack Obama did nothing to support the pro-democracy movement in Iran. He just sat back and allowed female protestors to be shot through the head by the foul Basij militia and other government entities.