{"id":43841,"date":"2019-02-15T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43841"},"modified":"2019-02-15T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:41:40","slug":"understanding-why-iranians-bash-the-u-s-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43841","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Why Iranians Bash the U.S. Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/2019\/02\/13\/understanding-why-iranians-bash-the-u-s-government\/\">Understanding Why Iranians Bash the U.S. Government<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days ago, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>carried an article by&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>\u2019 journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/11\/world\/middleeast\/iran-40-anniversary-rally.html\">For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the U.S.<\/a>,\u201d which was about Iran\u2019s celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979. The article included the following sentence, \u201cAnd like some evil doppelg\u00e4nger, the United States was omnipresent, despite having broken all ties with Iran in 1981.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Erdbrink failed to point out two things: One, it is understandable why the Iranian people bash the U.S. government, and, two, while the U.S. government may have broken diplomatic ties with Iran, it has nonetheless continued to use economic sanctions to target the Iranian people with impoverishment and death as a way of hopefully effecting another regime change within the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The distinction is important because the Iranian people love Americans. They just hate the U.S. government. And when one considers what the U.S. government has done to Iranians and continues to do to Iranians, which, unfortunately, many Americans don\u2019t like to think about, it is not difficult to understand the deep enmity that Iranians have toward the U.S. government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First things first though. When the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>&nbsp;refers to \u201cbashing the U.S.,\u201d it makes a common mistake by conflating the U.S. government and our nation. Actually, they are two separate and distinct entities, a phenomenon best reflected by the Bill of Rights, which expressly protects the citizenry (i.e., our country) from the U.S. government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1953, the CIA, which is one of three principal parts of the national-security branch of the federal government, secretly initiated a regime-change coup in Iran, one that not only ousted from power the democratically elected prime minister of the country, Mohammed Mossadegh, but also destroyed Iran\u2019s experiment with democracy. That\u2019s ironic, of course, given that U.S. officials are always reminding people how enamored they are with \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Why Iranians Bash the U.S. Government Two days ago, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;carried an article by&nbsp;Times\u2019 journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, \u201cFor Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the U.S.,\u201d which was about Iran\u2019s celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979. The article included the following sentence, \u201cAnd like some evil doppelg\u00e4nger, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4102,135,11469,441,16095,1921,827],"class_list":["post-43841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-future-of-freedom-foundation","tag-iran","tag-jacob-g-hornberger","tag-new-york-times","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43842,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions\/43842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}