In an explosive charge from Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon in his new book, “The Iran Wars,” in 2009 Barack Obama chose to abandon the green movement, the Iranian reformers who hoped for a regime change that would rid Iran of its brutal Islamic theocratic Islamic regime, because he preferred to make a nuclear deal with the regime.
Instead of supporting movements that would return Iran to a less oppressive state, the kind of action the U.S. took in Hungary in 2000 to train Serbian activists in nonviolent resistance against their dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, or George W. Bush sending James Baker to tell Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to heed popular protests and step down in 2003 after rigged elections, Solomon writes that Obama ordered the CIA to sever contacts it had with the green movement: “The Agency has contingency plans for supporting democratic uprisings anywhere in the world. This includes providing dissidents with communications, money, and in extreme cases even arms. But in this case the White House ordered it to stand down.”
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