Jimmy Carter and the international Left helped install the Ayatollah. After 40 years of hate and terror, Trump will finally take him down.
The BBC published a report in 2016, based on newly declassified documents, which stated that the Carter Administration had very extensive contact with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his entourage as the Iranian revolution was developing in 1979. The Carter administration actually helped stop the Iranian army from intervening against the Ayatollah, helping to set the stage for the fall of the Shah, who had been supported by prior U.S. administrations. Khomeini in fact "personally wrote to US officials" and assured them he would not cut off oil exports or hurt U.S. interests.
It was all a lie and the gullible Carter Administration fell for it, essentially abandoning any opposition to the clear threat the future Islamic State would present to the world. (Obama would subsequently also fall for the lies, only this time, about enriching uranium.)
Carter was of course, not the only guilty party in the western world that helped to enable Islamic terror in Iran get its start. Socialists and leftists in Iran itself surely were a significant instigator of the Iranian revolution, aiding the religious fanatics with misguided understanding of the Ayatollah’s intentions. Secular groups like the People's Mujahedin (MEK), saw the revolution as a way to overthrow the Shah. They also were echoing the revolution's anti-imperialist rhetoric and focus on seemingly socialistic social and economic issues. The liberal Brookings Institution called the success of the Iranian revolution “the assumption of authority by an inchoate coalition of leftists, liberals, and Muslim clerics (which) captivated the world.”
Indeed, Left wingers worldwide, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States, also enabled the success of the revolution, and took to the streets demanding the fall of the Shah and the elevation of the Ayatollah.
In Britain, there was widespread support, largely fomented by the Left, for the Iranian revolution. One observer wrote “Britain dropped its support for the Shah before the 1979 revolution, seeking to ingratiate itself with Iranian opposition forces led by Khomeini. Once his regime was in power, Whitehall went so far as to arm it, even brutally conniving with it, seeing it as a counter to the Soviet Union.” (I personally witnessed mass demonstrations on the streets of London in favor of the Ayatollah in December of 1978 when I was staffing a meeting of Howard Jarvis with then Opposition Leader Margaret Thatcher after the passage of Proposition 13 in California. It was clear to me that the Ayatollah had become a darling of the British media and Left wingers in the United Kingdom.)
Similarly in the United States, the Left took to the streets to support the Islamic State.
With forty years of hindsight and the bloody, inhumane history of the Islamic State, one would think that today’s Democrats would have become wiser about Iran and the mistakes of the non-authoritarian Left in helping to install the brutal regime. One might think that Trump’s success in helping to eliminate allowing the world’s most hateful regime to possess the most powerful of weapons would be greeted with even tepid favor. But that has not been the result. Democrats in Washington, D.C. just can’t bring themselves to agree with any praise for anything Trump does, even when it is transcendently righteous. It is a profound shame on them, and twice a shame on the Leftists, and those liberal political leaders, who helped foster the problem that, after so much death and destruction, that Trump and Israel are now solving.
For my part I am pretty happy with what we have done. My concern was Iran’s nuclear program. After that my primary concern returns to our insane national debt, a big chunk of which was us borrowing money to pay for very expensive military actions. We owe it to our kids and theirs to not fund a war today, if possible, and charge it to them.