Should the U.S. support protesters in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon?
Our abandonment of the Iranian people in the Green Revolution of 2009 when hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest the repressive theocracy was a stain on our value-based foreign policy.
Demonstrators clash with members of Iraqi security forces during the ongoing anti-government protests near the Governorate building of Basra, Iraq November 8, 2019(photo credit: ESSAM AL-SUDANI/ REUTERS)By ERIC R. MANDEL