Why Iran’s Dictators Need the United States as an Enemy

Why Iran’s Dictators Need the United States as an Enemy
An Iranian soldier sitting atop a T-72 tank as it rolls past a portrait of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei during the Army Day parade in Tehran on April 18, 2015. Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images
Thomas Del Beccaro
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The recent news out of Iran is stark. In the wake of the shooting down of a plane of innocents by Iran’s military, renewed protests have sprung up. Protests by those seeking freedom in Iran, of course, are met by vicious crackdowns on those Iranians that participate.

Thomas Del Beccaro
Thomas Del Beccaro
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Thomas Del Beccaro is an acclaimed author, speaker, former chairman of the California Republican Party, and Fox News, Fox Business, and Epoch Times opinion writer. He is author of the historical perspectives “The Divided Era” and “The New Conservative Paradigm” and is publisher of PoliticalVanguard.com, where he publishes daily commentaries.
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