Think about how bad things would have to be for ordinary Iranians to plead for Donald Trump to carry out military intervention against their own country (though in reality, against their hostage takers, the Islamic Republic).

Iranian women, children, men, flora and fauna are dying at the hands of the Iranian regime. Killing is what they do

Iranian women, children, men, flora and fauna are dying at the hands of the Iranian regime. Killing is what they do

Iran, the world’s oldest country, has been ruled by a theocratic authoritarian terrorist regime for the past 47 years. Following the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when the ayatollahs took over, a mafia of clerical families took the Iranian people hostage. In the ensuing half decade, the country with the fourth largest oil reserves and the second largest natural gas reserves has seen its currency plummet from 70:1 against the US Dollar to 1,630,000:1, with virtually no economic growth, high unemployment and a rate of inflation currently at 40 per cent.

The corruption and economic mismanagement is not even the most salient issue. It is the degradation and deprivation of all civil, human and women’s rights by the Islamic Republic against their “own” people. Under the Shah, before the Islamic Revolution, Iran was prospering both socially, particularly for women, and economically, with economic growth averaging over 10 per cent between 1960 and 1979. One of the first moves of the Islamic Republic when it took power was to force the hijab upon women and deprive them of equal rights, such as to divorce, child custody and inheritance.

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