In publicly condemning Iran for its reaction to the protests of the past week, President Trump has repeatedly made reference to human rights concerns. Human rights is not an issue often mentioned by the administration.
The issue of Iran jailing protesters, and using force against some of them, is a concern that’s hardly unique to Iran, President Trump himself has provoked larger protests in Palestine, and Israel’s crackdown has involved similar mass arrests and several killings.
Countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia similarly have what would be fairly described as calamitous human rights records, but neither has faced serious criticism from President Trump either.
Of some 2,900 Tweets since taking office, human rights have been mentioned by President Trump all of four times. Every single mention was related to Iran. Though President Trump has long expressed interest in “confronting” Iran, it seems human rights concerns begin and end to the extent he can use them as a pretext to rail against the Iranian government.
The naievete of this President is breath taking.
Meanwhile, journalists covering protests at Trump’s inauguration are facing up to 60 years in prison.
Egypt and Jordan are protected since they signed treaties with Israel. Saudi’s have the oil and huge American interests in Dallas etc, plus recently they have funded most of the CIA’s covert activities in the mid-east.
So Trump is restricted by the Zionist lobby to only tweet about the disobedient countries. That being any country that supports democracy human rights and freedom for Syria or Palestine etc.
It bodes well for N Korea because Trump will never be allowed to expend valuable American soldiers on a war that doesn’t further the goals of Israel.
Someone should point out to the Donald how the Saudis handled the uprising in Bahrain. Or maybe how the Israeli’s shoot protesting double amputees in the head.
Trump and his best friend in Saudi Arabia are huge human rights abusers in Yemen.