My hope is for an Iran free from religious rule. After 47 years, it looks like everyday Iranians want it too.

As some people in this country fail to recognize is the severity of the situation and how bad things are out there, compared to the misguided, childish, and violent protests we see here. The Iranian people are literally speaking out for their lives' sake while here in the US you mostly have protestors protesting for the sake of protesting. In doing so, many are trying to push the limits of protesting vs stepping over the line and break the law. Ath the seom time, in some cases, the cause they speak out for contradict their stated values. LGBT for "free Palestine" is an example... So is storming unauthorized zones within the Capitol building when law enforcement has ordered them to stop. The Palestinian people under the rule of Hamas do not support the LGBT lifestyle and would persecute them in that region, and thus the contradiction. The people who thought storming into the Capitol and creating a riot is OK, is not consistent with law abiding practices which many of those same people demand (and thus, another contradiction).

As I said, the Iranian people are facing a radical, theocratic, and authoritarian government, which has prioritized far too much over the the people's welfare and security. What they are doing, unlike what would happen in the US, is putting their lives on the line only for speaking out against the Government. For any American to think we have the same problem here is asinine, naive, and ignorant. At its worst, those people simply run the risk of looking stupid and uninformed in this country. Iran is about to hold a public execution of one of those protestors if they haven't already. This is not the first time nor is it an uncommon thing from them to do. We have a right to assemble and speak out in general and even against the government. This is guaranteed in the Constitution. That does not equate to organized violence, obstructing LEOs, and encouraging more of it through an enabling group of local and state government officials who simply hate Trump. Especially those who facilitated the situation in the first place.

Strange that he's considering action against crackdowns on protests in Iran while saying we aren't doing enough to crackdown on protests against ICE in the US.