The American President Iran was Waiting For

President Obama had a dream. The Islamic Republic of Iran was simply misunderstood. The U.S., the sole superpower, as befits the typical arrogant colonial power, had intervened in Iran in 1953 by sponsoring a coup of the beloved Iranian prime minister, Mossadegh. The Iranian regime hated the U.S. for that act, and for other acts of colonialism. Ignore the fact that this view of the 1953 coup against Iran cannot be the cause of the Iranian regime’s hatred of the U.S. The founder of the current Iranian regime opposed the leftist, corrupt and undemocratic regime of Mossadegh, and the Islamist clerics of Iran were supportive of the British-led, American supported ouster. Anyway, President Obama believed (and still believes) that all the U.S. needed to get right with Iran was to elect the right kind of U.S. president. A humble man, like Obama, who understood and respected the Islamic faith, and who could apologize for the great wrong done by the U.S. to Iran. If the...(Read Full Article)