MSNBC’s Ali Velshi just dropped a gem of revisionist history on his 11th Hour show, claiming that the recently whacked Iranian bigwig Ali Larijani was a very sort of Western-facing moderate who only turned hardline after the U.S. pulled out of Obama’s beloved Iran nuclear deal. Picture this: Velshi paints Larijani as America’s lost buddy, corrupted by Trump’s mean tweets and JCPOA exit in 2018. Never mind Larijani’s decades-long resume as a key architect of Iran’s sham elections, a nuclear negotiator who stonewalled the West while Tehran enriched uranium to bomb-grade levels, and a loyal ayatollah enforcer who helped crush the 2009 Green Revolution protests with brutal efficiency. This isn’t journalism; it’s a masterclass in blame-shifting, where America’s unilateral moves are the root of all Middle East evil, ignoring Iran’s pre-deal cheating and post-deal sprint toward 60% enriched uranium stockpiles.
Dig deeper, and Velshi’s spin exposes the media’s dangerous allergy to accountability—much like how they frame every U.S. foreign policy hiccup as the spark for global chaos, while soft-pedaling the regimes that fund it. Larijani wasn’t some flower child turned radical; he was a regime lifer, speaker of Iran’s parliament until 2020, and a vocal defender of Soleimani’s terror network. Trump’s pullout didn’t harden him; it just ripped off the diplomatic Band-Aid, revealing Iran’s true face: a theocracy hell-bent on nukes, proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, and chants of Death to America. Fast-forward to today, with Israel taking out Larijani amid escalating strikes, and you see the real implication—weak deals embolden fanatics, just as appeasement historically does.
For the 2A community, this is a stark reminder of the stakes in arming ourselves against similar threats at home. Iran’s hardliners aren’t outliers created by U.S. arrogance; they’re the norm, armed with missiles and ideology that could one day target our shores. Velshi’s narrative echoes the same gun-grabber logic: If only we’d stayed in the deal (or passed more restrictions), everyone would play nice. Wrong. Self-defense rights aren’t negotiable, whether it’s your AR-15 against domestic tyrants or Israel’s Iron Dome against Iranian drones. The Second Amendment endures precisely because history proves deterrence beats diplomacy every time—pull out of bad deals, stand firm, and keep your powder dry. Iran’s not moderating; it’s accelerating. Stay vigilant, patriots.
