Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shared a startling revelation last week that Iranian negotiators had recruited psychologists to help navigate what they believed was Trump’s “impaired mental state.” And on Monday, Scahill provided an update on Iran’s unique approach to the negotiations, which he said Tehran partially credited for Sunday’s success.
“Senior Iranian psychologists began working with the negotiating team to try to cater the messages that the Iranians were sending via mediators back to Donald Trump to try to take into account what they say as his specific mental illness and mental deficiencies,” Scahill said in an interview with Democracy Now published on Monday.
“Almost quite clinically, they said they began to see this process yielding results as they worked with psychologists to send these communications to Donald Trump, and they credit that, in part, with getting to this point where Trump finally accepted some version of his manufactured and almost entirely false victory narrative.”
News flash geopolitics isn’t a fucking sports match. Sometimes both sides are evil and the average person always loses.
You can hate the US and a literal theocracy that executes women for being raped.
Why would you expect them to have any social progress? They constantly prop up Islamic extremists is surrounding states. They want their neighbors to be theocracies too. They want their neighbors to allow honor killings, to restrict the movements and agency of women, and to punish anyone that doesn’t follow their holy laws. It’s hilarious how you can clearly see the USA’s geopolitical goals and machinations and ignore Iran’s. Basically the only thing they have right is not supporting Israel.
What happened in Iran will not stop the USA’s meddling in foreign countries. Maybe things will change during midterms or next presidential election, but I won’t hold my breath.
All this has done has strengthened a theocracy to spread its oppression. There’s absolutely no reason for a better funded Iran to step back from their decades long goals. The opposite actually.
The average person in either country lost. I’m sorry real life can’t be as simple as you want it.
They prop up the people who are opposed to their enemies. Same reason the US props up extremists. Iran’s actions are easily modeled pragmatic responses to geopolitical reality, and quite poorly as religiously driven, otherwise they wouldn’t sometimes fund Sunni groups who they fundamentally disagree with.
You know Marx would have a term for those that go out of their way to support a theocracy over and Imperialist nation.
Class traitor
We could argue the pros and cons of each nation, but why? All we are arguing about is two large nations trying to impress their will upon smaller nations. Neither is good for the people of the smaller nations.
Countless Yemenis, Palestinians, Lebanese people are defending themselves from literal genocide with Iranian weapons. Don’t bothsides this shit.
Thats not what that means lmao
Cool story class traitor
Go ahead an pick your preferred oppressor. Capital or religion your choice. I’ll chose the people
You chose capital by opposing every resistance to it. There’s no third option when Israel is genociding Palestine and Hamas leads the unified front against them.