US 'Supports' Iranian Protesters by Capturing Venezuelan Leader?
Al-Monitor, citing Reuters, suggests that Donald Trump's threats of intervention complicated Iran's efforts to quell protests, specifically linking it to the alleged 'capture' of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro. This narrative conveniently skips the foundational history: the 1953 US-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and
setting the stage for decades of anti-US sentiment and the 1979 revolution. To present US meddling as a recent, complicating factor is disingenuous; it's a feature, not a bug, of US foreign policy in the region. The article’s implication that Iran's leaders 'struggle' with protests because of external US threats, rather than their own internal governance, is a classic blame-shifting maneuver. It
overlooks the extensive track record of US sanctions, covert operations, and regime change rhetoric that fuels resentment and instability, ironically bolstering the very hardliners it claims to oppose. One might wonder if the real 'fear' is not US intervention, but the inconvenient truth that decades of such 'support' have consistently destabilized nations while enriching a select few.