January 5, 2018 | Quoted by Zachary Fryer-Biggs - Newsweek

Trump’s Aggressive Rhetoric on Iran, a Change from Obama, May Backfire, experts say

President Donald Trump has been egging on Iranian protestors on Twitter, a staggering turnaround from his predecessor’s work to keep American fingerprints off of dissent in Iran—and his approach may open the door for hard-liners in Iran to crack down on demonstrators and then blame America for the repression, experts say.

“It’s very empowering for a superpower to declare solidarity with you,” said Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who previously advised several Republican politicians.

Goldberg said that the argument that U.S. public support for the protestors could be used by the Iranian regime is “hullabaloo.”

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