Protests Erupt Across Iran As Angry People Flood Streets

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The mullahs have ruled in Iran since 1979. That's a long time. But there are still people who remember what it was like in the country before. They remember what it was like to have more freedom then. There have been resistance movements ever since, inside and outside Iran, trying to bring change.

They've had moments in the past where things seemed to come close, such as with the Green Movement that started in 2009, and had hundreds of thousands in the streets. But Barack Obama was in office in 2009, so their hopes of any support were dashed. Then, too, in 2016, he secretly flew $400 million to Iran. So you had millions that went to helping to prop up the terrorist state.

But the Iranians are a persistent people, it would appear, especially when you hurt them in their wallets and make it challenging to survive. We're at another one of those moments in history where hope has sparked again in the country, and people are in the streets, calling for change.

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MY TAKE: As long as Iran is run as a Islamic theocracy it Iranians will not any voice in their government and Iran will remain a destabilizing influence in the region. The West and the moderate Islamic states in the region has drop the ball too many times in the past when the Iranians have flooded the streets. Repression only followed our ineptitude.