Iranians are revolting against the despotic regime that Barack Obama worked tirelessly to legitimize, and the former president's foreign policy guru is struggling to contain his despair.
Ben Rhodes, architect of the much-maligned Iran nuclear deal, hasn't posted anything on social media to express solidarity with the protesters who have been risking their lives since late December in one of the largest mass uprisings the country has ever seen. Instead, he has repeatedly denounced Donald Trump for vowing to protect the protesters from state-sanctioned violence.
When U.S. forces apprehended Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro—one of Iran's closest allies in Latin America—Rhodes was deeply concerned that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could be next to fall. The operation took place less than 24 hours after Trump expressed support for the protesters in Iran and promised to "come to their rescue" if the regime turned violent.
"The thing that worries me is this kind of behavior can become contagious, and maybe it already has been," Rhodes said on Pod Save the World, his foreign policy podcast with former Obama bro Tommy Vietor. "It's probably not, like, entirely a coincidence that Trump is threatening Iran at the same time that he's doing this in Venezuela."
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Ben Rhodes, architect of the much-maligned Iran nuclear deal, hasn't posted anything on social media to express solidarity with the protesters who have been risking their lives since late December in one of the largest mass uprisings the country has ever seen. Instead, he has repeatedly denounced Donald Trump for vowing to protect the protesters from state-sanctioned violence.
When U.S. forces apprehended Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro—one of Iran's closest allies in Latin America—Rhodes was deeply concerned that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could be next to fall. The operation took place less than 24 hours after Trump expressed support for the protesters in Iran and promised to "come to their rescue" if the regime turned violent.
"The thing that worries me is this kind of behavior can become contagious, and maybe it already has been," Rhodes said on Pod Save the World, his foreign policy podcast with former Obama bro Tommy Vietor. "It's probably not, like, entirely a coincidence that Trump is threatening Iran at the same time that he's doing this in Venezuela."
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