Some demonstrators also criticized Iran for spending billions of dollars to support regional allies such as Syria, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Hamas. Authorities in Tehran quickly denounced the protests as provocations instigated by the United States and Israel.
The government organized tens of thousands of counterdemonstrations in the big cities. The government also cracked down hard on the protests. An Iranian member of parliament claimed that the government arrested nearly 5, people. At least twenty-five people died. Khosravi told me that, because of the repression, some people he knows hedged their bets, and turned out for both demonstrations. They are afraid they might lose whatever they have. Trump, predictably, used the protests to justify hardening his anti-Iran positions.
The Trump Administration asserts that Iran poses a threat to U. But according to U. So why is Washington—Democrats as well as Republicans—in such a dither over the Iran nuclear threat? Patrick Clawson welcomed me into his office in Washington, D. His shelves are lined with books, including mine, The Iran Agenda. Clawson, the research director at the conservative Washington Institute for Near East Policy, is a former leftist who marched in demonstrations against the Shah of Iran in the s.
He became a conservative, he said, after working for the International Monetary Fund and witnessing what he calls the hypocrisy of Third World, leftist governments. I asked him whether he thought that, even now, with the nuclear accord in place, Iran is developing atomic weapons. But conservatives can provide no proof. The International Atomic Energy Agency has released eight reports indicating Iran is complying with the nuclear accord. The agency closely monitors all uranium in Iran, from mining to refining to enrichment.
Iran, it has concluded, has no nuclear weapons program. The Trump Administration has so far not imposed new sanctions on the nuclear issue, which would blatantly violate the accord. But it has imposed numerous new, unilateral sanctions on issues of human rights, terrorism, and ballistic missiles. Izadi earned his Ph. He arrived there in , just before the devastating Hurricane Katrina. He developed a deep admiration for how Americans responded to the crisis, impressed by how members of different religions helped one another.
Izadi continues to make a distinction between Americans and their government. He argued that Iran never had a nuclear weapon and never posed a threat to the American people. And the current nuclear accord guarantees that Iran will never develop one. Because the whole point of the criticism is to instill fear, there are no compromises or concessions that Iran can make that will satisfy the United States, according to Izadi. From an ideologically opposite position, Clawson agreed. He argued that the United States is justified in imposing sanctions that go beyond the issue of nuclear weapons because Iran violates the human rights of its own people and supports terrorist groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
We met on a blustery winter morning in Lafayette Park across from the White House. The Iranian government has pledged greater transparency after a lawmaker alleged that the clerical regime was playing down the outbreak and that the toll could be as high as Pompeo said that both China and Iran could have better contained coronavirus if they allowed free expression and he saluted foreign journalists who have reported on the epidemic. In Streetwise Hebrew for the Times of Israel Community, each month we learn several colloquial Hebrew phrases around a common theme.
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