In his new book, “The Iran Wars,” Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon uncovers new details on how far Obama went to avoid helping Iran’s green movement. “But in this case the White House ordered it to stand down.”At the time, Solomon reports, Obama’s aides received mixed messages. Members of the Iranian diaspora wanted the president to support the uprisings. Even the Obama administration provided diplomatic and moral support for popular uprisings in Egypt in 2011 and Ukraine in 2014. As Solomon reports, Obama ended U.S. programs to document Iranian human rights abuses.

Source: National Post August 24, 2016 15:56 UTC