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.”
There are many victims.
Let me clarify, America is in no way being exploited by Iran, what the fuck.
No. But Americans are victims of the Trump regime.
America is being exploited by Trump is what is implied, not by Iran.
Thats not what the comment says.
The comment is implying Trump is being exploited and America is paying the price for Iran’s exploitation of Trump.
Both can be true. Iran took advantage of Trump’s mental illness to get what they wanted. They deserved it, but it’s a costly deal for the American people. I and everyone with a brain blame Trump.
Honestly this is a raw deal for the world in general. Oil will now forever be slightly more expensive due to the tolls. Iran will come out of this stronger and that’s bad for the world too.
We watched the two school yard bullies go at it and the one that started it lost. Which is fun to watch, but honestly nothing is materially better for anyone. We still have a fledgling fascist theocracy and an autocratic theocracy.
The fledgling theocracy will probably thrash and cause more issues globally and the existing theocracy will use it’s wealth to expand its local power.
Issues Iran has caused: defeating ISIS, helping Lebanon defend itself from America’s attack dog Israel, helping Yemen defend itself from America’s other vassal, Saudi Arabia.
You’re still uncritically accepting same “both sides” bullshit the US uses to prevent opposition to imperialism. A place not having your ideal government doesn’t mean its good when the US keeps it weak by starving its people, finding some fascists to arm, and/or bombing them.
Iran being able to stand up to the US is fundamentally a good thing. Maybe we’ll even see social progress now that they’re not facing an existential threat.
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.
The comment says there are many victims, referencing the fact that it’s not just Iranians who have suffered because of Trump’s senility and evil. You’re choosing to read it differently than it was intended.
Trump caused this; while it could be seen as justified for Iran to exploit the situation, the American People, the majority of whom did not want to be in this position, are the ones mostly paying the price.
Iran getting reparations for hundreds of school children America murdered and its assets unfrozen is not Iran exploiting anybody, if I spend half a century repeatedly stabbing you, and then pull the knife out 1 inch, that’s not you stabbing me, thats a slight decrease in how much I am currently stabbing you.