Max Hassani

We are going to send Iran back to the Stone Age? President @realDonaldTrump! Stop targeting ordinary Iranians and Iran’s infrastructure, the Islamic regime’s officials you call “less radical leaders” in Iran, the ones you are willing to negotiate with are exactly the ones with a Stone Age mindset. President Obama once called them “moderates” and tried to negotiate with them. You are making the same mistake by calling them “ reasonable” Listen to my conversation with @jaketapper to understand what kind of “help” Iranians received from both U.S. presidents.

Over the past few days, while we had no internet in Iran and relied only on satellite TV, I repeatedly saw Western media like @CNN and @FRANCE24 describe Hassan Rouhani as a “moderate” and a viable successor to Ali Khamenei. I find it hard to believe that those so-called “experts” are unaware of the killing of more than 1,500 protesters or the deliberate shootdown of a passenger plane during his presidency in 2018. So let me draw your attention to his very "moderate" speech after the crackdown on students in 1999: “Those rioters who in recent days have been attacking the regime will be punished in court as enemies of God and corruptors on earth. If it were not for the restraint of officials, our revolutionary Muslim youth would have torn these thugs and hooligans apart, piece by piece. These elements will be suppressed with force.”