Several key advisers to former President Barack Obama have poured scorn on President Donald Trump’s support for the protests sweeping Iran in recent days.
The former Obama administration, over a year later, still has not accepted that it is no longer leading America, and that the American people exercised their democratic right to vote in Trump as their leader. The public lost confidence in a so-called leader who betrayed American principles of democracy. Among Obama’s misdeeds, he:
- Signed the Iranian deal, which released over 100 billion dollars into Iran’s coffers, enabling it to further fund its jihadi proxies such as Hizballah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.
- Airlifted 400 million dollars to Iran, which happened to coincide with the January 2016 release of four Americans detained in Tehran, such that critics called it a ransom payout.
- Paid Iran some $33.6 billion in secret cash and gold payments, in monthly installments of $700,000,000, between 2014 and 2016, according to testimony provided before Congress by an expert on the Iran nuclear agreement.
- Hid intel on Iranian jihadis in Syria in order to push the Iranian nuclear deal.
- Tried to convince Argentina to give Iran nuclear fuel, according to former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
- Ordered the CIA not to support the 2009 Green Movement in Iran, because he was too committed to “diplomatic” outreach to Ayatollah Khamenei.
In fact:
In 2009, when the “Green Revolution” threatened the Iranian regime, Obama and his administration refrained from supporting the protests. Obama said that “we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran.
Respect for this brutal regime that oppresses its people, aims to obliterate Israel and funds jihadi terror globally?
Should Donald Trump’s support help bring the Iranian people closer to freedom with any measure of success — weakening the Iranian regime — then it would further show up the incompetence within the Obama administration as leader of the free world. Otherwise, the new Iranian uprising could expose even more about the unscrupulous partnership between the Obama administration and Iran, none of which is flattering or useful to Obama and his cronies.
“Former Obama Advisers Tell Trump to ‘Be Quiet’ on Iran Protests”, by Joel Pollak, Breitbart, January 1, 2017:
Several key advisers to former President Barack Obama have poured scorn on President Donald Trump’s support for the protests sweeping Iran in recent days.
In 2009, when the “Green Revolution” threatened the Iranian regime, Obama and his administration refrained from supporting the protests. Obama said that “we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran.”
That weak response, and the administration’s general lack of support for the demonstrators, allowed the regime to consolidate power.
Obama was more concerned with preserving the possibility of an eventual deal on Iran’s nuclear program than he was in removing the Iranian regime as a strategic threat or in standing up for human rights. Critics charge that Obama missed a golden opportunity.
President Trump has taken the opposite approach, vigorously supporting the protests and criticizing the regime.
But the Obama brain trust rejects Trump’s approach, and apparently believes the approach Obama took in 2009 remains the best one.
Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice tweeted a New York Times op-ed by former Obama aide Philip Gordon, “How Can Trump Help Iran’s Protesters? Be Quiet.” The author argues that supporting the protests, and taking steps to end the Iran nuclear deal, will only help the regime to delegitimize its internal opponents.
Rice offered no other statement of solidarity for the demonstrators.
Rob Malley, who had once been dropped from the Obama campaign for meeting with the Hamas terrorist group but found his way back into the administration in negotiations with Iran, also praised Gordon’s op-ed.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was in office during the Green Revolution, was more supportive of the protesters, but said merely that she “hope[d]” the Iranian regime would listen to them…..
Krishna says
He is not blind on eye on Iran but due to Iranian taqqiya tactics Obama got decived of Iran even now hassan rouhani is playing taqqiya but trump is not blind enough
Januk36 says
+1
gravenimage says
Agreed.
Lia says
‘Obama got deceived’? Or became part of a planned deception?
Carolyne says
He was not ignorant of Islam, being one of them, and it was deliberate.
R Russell says
I believe Obama, though a Sunni Muslim was happy to collude with the Shias in their joint goal to destroy Israel. Obama made it clear what he thought of Israel – to be found in the Koran and the Hadiths and tried to make matters more difficult for them. He just wanted to make it easier by making the Iran deal so Iran could Nuke Israel sooner rather than later.
Well he doesn’t know that YHWH has told us what will happen in the Middle East and what appears to be that nuclear fallout and its clearance will form part of it for it is found in the Bible. (People who are sceptical about the Bible generally don’t believe the effects of a nuclear attack are recorded within it.)
Iranians are fed up with the dictatorship and who knows matters might change again for Iran – not the way the Ayatollahs want it to be.
Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says
The Iranians will be all right & if the mullahs or little rocket man sends a nuclear missile & it lands between my open legs, it will Not hurt me… read John 3:16…
Carolyne says
I don’t understand believing in a supernatural being who doesn’t like vowels, but I do believe that Israel will nuke Iran sooner rather than later. And I will be glad.
rms says
I suspect these “former” advisers are “current” advisers.
p bay says
cursed advisors
WorkingClassPost says
If President Trump is telling Saudis to stay out of it, then he’s doing the right thing.
That regime looks set to fall eventually, maybe not just now, but some things are worth waiting for…
Peter says
These are the same idiots who ended sanctions, giving up any leverage on Iran, permitted the ongoing financing of Iran’s terrorist policies, gave the regime $150 billion (if these PC/MC ideologues are so committed to their faith, why did they pay the Iranians interest on their money???), and sacrificed national interests for a meaningless “nuclear deal.”
What credibility do they have?
Zero.
Jaladhi says
>”But the Obama brain trust rejects Trump’s approach, and apparently believes the approach Obama took in 2009 remains the best one.”<
What an oxymoron- "Obama brain trust"!! Total sum of the brain power of these ignorant morons is "Zero". How can one expect anything intelligent from the likes of them!
gravenimage says
Yeah–’cause the protests in 2009 worked out so well. You can only believe that if you are supporting the Mullahs.
Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says
I got more brains, than all of them put together & I failed 1st & 4th grades, too! I failed a total of 7 times ,(a prime n), butt a law was passed that they could only hold you back twice -1+0^0/2+1 Qed. RH. TM. PROVEN!!!
Carolyne says
Susan Rice can go on every Sunday morning show and lie about Benghazi, so she can lie about Iran and anything else her master, the Muslim Obama, asks of her.
mortimer says
Barack Obama was one of the great examples of the Peter Principle: someone promoted far beyond his competence.
Obama’s extreme incompetence allowed terrorism to advance tenfold. It was due to the perception of his Pollyanna attitude to Islamic terrorism.
The terrorists pushed ahead not fearing Obama’s wrath and they were correct.
Bxgirl says
Exactly. And he was inwardly intimidated by Netanyahu. Trudeau and Macron may be in those categories.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, I wish Obama had been no worse than incompetent.
Kepha says
At first, I thought the O incompetent. Then, I started to feel he was quite competent, only malevolent. In the end, with Shrillary Shroooooo giving the world access to our classified material , I decided that the O and crew were incompetent, malevolent, and, above all things, wise in their own conceits.
Bob says
Obama knew exactly what he was doing, the intent was to enhance the power of Iran & that’s what he did .Obama despises this country & for 8 years the goal was to make us weaker militarily & economically,
he was successful.
Manny says
Completely agree. The first traitor president.
Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says
That little gay guy set out to “fundamentally transform this Country”!!! And, that much he did, butt thank GOD, for Our President Trump!!!
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
So here we have Susan Rice giving unsolicited advice. If I’m not mistaken, there’s an orange jump suit awaiting her in federal prison for the multiple felonies she committed abusing the NSA and CIA for political gain.
Run silent run deep. Give the Persian mullahs sufficient space to work their magic.
mummymovie says
B. Hussein O.-
His PR Squad has just gotta keep spinning the “legacy”:
Eight years of untreated cancer in North Korea, and the full-fledged empowerment and payoff of the now-nuclear Iranian regime and the Mullahs.
Not to mention opening the floodgates in Libya to migrant horde flows invading Europe by pissing backwards on deal with Gaddaffi (doesn’t help matters with Kim Jong Un either), and leaving Iraq to IS… among multitudes of other pro-jihad and pro-hijra measures.
Hell of a legacy, eh?
Who should be keeping their mouths shut?
Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says
Well I am not waiting in line & his arse is Not brown, it is Black, like his Mind! One thing I know for sure, O’bomba, is a Devil.,. & very deceitful, for his power was in his rhetoric, where Liberals & media hung on his, every word & were deceived, even today! We were fooled to think, we needed the first black president, the 1st. Gay president & we were Not going to make that mistake again, by voting for the first woman president
just because she had a Vagina!!! That is Stupid & boarders on Insanity!!! ‘What Happened!? @HillaryClinton,
You Wore Your Vagina On Your Sleeve, that is What Happened!!!
Thomas Kimball says
To Obama and his cronies “STFU”!
Wellington says
Susan Rice has no credibility. Ditto for her former boss.
eduardo odraude says
Yes, Rice is apparently a serial liar:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451378/susan-rice-devin-nunes-unmasking-controversy-did-rice-lie
Here’s an article from two weeks ago responding to comments of the Obama people on Trump. An excellent article (except for a single line).
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/the-death-rattle-of-obamas-foreign-policy-record-susan-rice/
mummymovie says
None, whatsoever.
A sleazy amateur at best and more likely a criminal.
Surprised she still has the nerve to shell out suggestions to anybody.
mortimer says
Obama was apparently as adept at taqiyya as was the Shi’ite mullahocracy in Iran.
Emilie Green says
“Former Obama Advisers Tell Trump to ‘Be Quiet’ on Iran Protests”, by Joel Pollak,
For people who think that everything Iran should be QT, and who are advising Trump to do likewise, these people are making a lot of noise.
Obviously they’re saying all these things to protect the Iranian mullahs generally and that awful 2015 executive agreement.
Fortunately it won’t work. Trump goes by his own drumbeats and he says the world through American eyeglasses whereas Obama sees the world through Islamic lenses.
Carolyne says
Obama is an arrogant, foreign-born, Muslim traitor and his advice should be ignored as he is an ignorant stooge for Allah.
Manny says
Well said. He is in the bag for Islam, whether he’s a Muslim or not.
JEFFREY B says
He’s a muzzie.
p bay says
a dirty one at that
Carolyne says
I believe he is a Muslim traitor. He was born a Muslim, raised as a Muslim, went to school registered as a Muslim, and has made a number of statements indicating he is on the other side, i.e. “The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” And, “The most beautiful sound on earth is the call to evening prayer.” And, “My Muslim faith…..” What more does anyone need to conclude that he is a Muslim and his goal was to deliver the US into Muslim hands.
If the US Patriots had “Been quiet” and not rejected British rule, we would be kowtowing to Theresa May. Not rocking the boat is certainly more comfortable, but it is the coward’s way.
Manny says
I’m convinced that Obama is a traitor to the US, and a complete Islamic sympathizer. In the dictionary under “useful idiot” is a picture of Obama himself.
shoehorn says
‘Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused foreign “enemies” of fuelling the protests.
“In recent days, enemies of Iran used different tools including cash, weapons, politics and intelligence apparatus to create troubles for the Islamic Republic,” he said.’
Xenophobia counters Islamophobia?
shoehorn says
gah! wrong post; commenting on:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-02/450-protesters-arrested-over-three-days-in-tehran/9299778
Bodega says
Obama never was an honest broker. Everything about him, his history, time in the white house, his so called wife, his time in school, the so called degrees he got,all fake. Why? to gull the democrats who still think his “s**t don’t stink”.
I cannot wait until he is held responsible for the billion dollar heist on the American people. Totally, 100$ disgusting that we fell for all that.
Carolyne says
Obama spent a fortune having all his records sealed. Can Mr. Trump unseal them?. If he can, he should do it. Let the world know what a traitor looks like.
eduardo odraude says
With Obama, regardless of the explicit policy of his administration, many people sensed that he did not think the Iranian government was all that bad, and that perhaps he felt some sympathy toward the theocrats along with his subtle antipathy toward the US and the West. By contrast, apart from Western leftists, people perceive Trump as having a more traditional US attitude: intense visceral opposition to global totalitarian movements. Insofar as public opinion rules the world, Trump’s views and the cultural wave they represent are a powerful force for rebellion against dictators. The difficulty of suppressing communication technologies is another factor making tyranny more difficult these days.
Instability may be true especially in Islamic theocracies, where alleged spiritual purity of governance is the only excuse for the dictators, yet where hypocrisy of the rulers inevitably becomes painfully visible. Such hypocrisy necessarily undermines the dictatorship’s only excuse for imposing itself, and thus leads to the eventual overthrow of the dictators.
cornelius says
Of course they are advising Trump in such a manner….it would be devastating to their legacy and their agenda if the mullahs were turned out.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Cornelius.
Carolyne says
You are right, cornelius, but did Mr. Trump ask for their advice? Of course not. They just don’t know they are no longer in a position to do anything but talk. They are like a third world country, never doing anything constructive, but full of inane advice for those who do.
Champ says
“The former Obama administration, over a year later, still has not accepted that it is no longer leading America, and that the American people exercised their democratic right to vote in Trump as their leader.” — Christine Douglass-Williams
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hear, hear!!
gravenimage says
+1
Kepha says
The O–America’s first Third World Great Leader (and we all know what wonders such people did for their countries).
gravenimage says
Former Obama advisers tell Trump to be quiet about the Iranian protests
………………………
How *dare* Trump fail to support the Mullahs, as his predecessor did?
abad says
Hussein Obama needs to stop interfering with President Donald J. Trump’s policies and decisions.
Hey Obama, I think a grass hut village in Kenya is calling you!
Kepha says
He can go live with half-brother George in a Nairobi shantytown.
Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says
Yeah! And why don’t You go back to Afrika, where you came from! We don’t want You here O’bomba, You Shanty Irishman!!!
Carolyne says
That grass hut is his family manse.
CRUSADER says
Americans should step away from accommodating, enabling, and appropriating Islamic things….
We should do this, as example:
say byzantine not ottoman….when referencing furniture pieces.
say aegean not turquoise…..when referencing colors of blue.
Tom says
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
underbed cat says
Perfect quote /Tom and Marcus Tullius Cicero, I know you not, but you were a wise man, who just gave a perfect description of the Muslim Brotherhood operations, from history and to place a muslim inside the office of the White House.,as a” traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, and carrier his banner openly”, (in arabic and soft words and able to work into the halls of government unseen)….”appears not a traitor”( acts friendly but carries a hard heart), “he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.” ( to gain absolute power, make evil as beauty and to close ones eyes to death of a soul)”…”he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city,” (D.C. and strike fear into the hearts of the infidel to bring sharia to rule and conquer the new land) and make this ideology appear inocculus until it is too late unless the information warfare is exposed. Once inside the gate and a acheivement of power is tasted they will always attempt to regain the power lost, that he once claimed.
WPM says
That is what Obama is a traitor ,how we America elected him twice shows how shallow many of us have become. He bribe many Americans with promises of the increase government regulations would free up our lives ,life does not work that way. He believe in transferring wealth from people who generate it ,who work hard and are smart to people who cannot get their life together because they lack the moral fiber of personal responsible. Islam forever blaming someone else for problems of their own creation . Who kills the most Moslems in the world other Moslems, who keeps most Moslems living in unbelievable poverty in Moslem major countries Moslem leaders. Who treats their woman like objects and second class people ,making murder of daughter a minor crime and a duty because of a bruised male ego Islam. Who encourage their children to kill themselves for their hateful non loving god Islam. Who hate non believers making a duty to either kill them or enslave them Islam .What American president side with Islam made excuses for Islamic violence ,try to blame Islamic resentment for the West on myth filled lies told by Islam for over 1400 years Obama.
Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says
These Muslim fanatics like O’bomba believe that “allah” will reward them with 72 Virgins & they could Not be more wrong! Mohammad was a Dyslexic & misread the Quran! It says, “with 27 Virgins will I reward You, Butt You won’t know, if they are Male, or female, until You get here Suckers”!!!
Carolyne says
I don’t think they care if they are male or female. All the same to them–especially pre-pubescent.
p bay says
what did obama get in return? ie: secret paybacks, etc
J D S says
Obummer and his advisors…Now how did that work out?
J D S says
Obummer and his advisors…Now how did that work out?
s says
perhaps it is time to name these advisers…