The Daily Beast: "When Iran Took Americans Hostage, Bernie Backed Iran's Defenders"

[JaneQPublic]

This is an opinion piece, but nevertheless it demonstrates what Sanders can expect now that he's the front-runner. He and his spokespeople should have responses ready.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-iran-took-americans-hostage-bernie-backed-irans-defenders?source=twitter&via=desktop

As Democrat Socialists condemned Khomeini’s hostage taking, Sanders stood with a communist party that condemned “Carter’s war drive against the Iranian people.”

Go back over 40 years, to the start of Iran’s long conflict with the United States. On April 1, 1979, the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran was proclaimed. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had returned to Iran from exile to assume command of the revolt, became Supreme Leader in December of that year. His rise was accelerated by the seizure on Nov. 4 of 52 American diplomats and citizens, and citizens of other countries, at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The hostage crisis became the means by which the Ayatollah crushed political opponents in Iran. Dealing with the hostage taking became the overwhelming political crisis for President Jimmy Carter. It lasted 444 days.

Virtually all Americans—Democrats, Republicans and independents—united in support of the hostages and the international call for their freedom. One prominent political figure on the 2020 stage, then almost completely unknown, stood apart by joining a Marxist-Leninist party that not only pledged support for the Iranian theocracy, but also justified the hostage taking by insisting the hostages were all likely CIA agents. Who was that person? It was Bernie Sanders.

Sanders would like the public to believe, as an AP story put it, that “democratic socialism [is] the economic philosophy that has guided his political career.” But that has not always been the case. In 1977, he left the tiny left-wing Liberty Union Party of Vermont that he’d co-founded, and in 1980 instead aligned himself with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the self-proclaimed Trotskyist revolutionary party, became its presidential elector in Vermont, and campaigned for its candidates and platform that defended the Iranian hostage seizure.

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[highplainsdem]

1. K&R

[True Blue American]

2. This surprises you?

I did a google search years ago. It is amazing hom much of the past I read has been erased.

What happened to it?

[mr_lebowski]

5. You think the past from before the internet existed ...

Has been erased from the internet?

Interesting angle.

Have the happenings of day-to-day life of cave-dwelling humans been erased from the history books?

Just wondering

[True Blue American]

7. I found the original

Info on the Internet! Google to be exact!

The only thing I found this time gave a brief rundown on his History before he was elected and an article by a friend who answered,” None of your business Z,”

How ever I used to post with a friend who watched Bernie when.

Also, Vermont is a small state tha has one Health care plan, no Doctors, people go to Boston for Health care and no jobs. Not a great record for 30 years. These are facts from people who live there, not me.

[hlthe2b]

3. It is a damned shame Bernie did not get sufficient airing and vetting in 2016 with every drop of

attention (from both Left and RW--not to mention MSMS)-- upon Clinton).


This is not going to be pretty and I only pray it is not devastating, no matter how much context might matter

[Fresh_Start]

4. I don't think there is any proof that Sanders supported the Iranians

the party he was a member of supported the Iranians.
We don't know what Bernie's specific position was at that time.

[mr_lebowski]

6. I think he's said he DIDN'T, even ... but ... if you're defending yourself, you're losing (nt)