Iran is Donald Trump's Enemy, Not Mine!
- Donald V. Watkins
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By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on May 12, 2026
An Editorial Opinion
Iran is one of the most advanced civilizations in the world. As a country, it is 5,200 years old. Its population is 93 million people.
Iran has not overthrown a democratically elected government anywhere on the planet. In contrast, the U.S. has carried out over 64 covert CIA operations to overthrow foreign governments since the 1950s.
In 1953, the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran for the sole purpose of helping Britain steal Iran’s oil.
Iran has no record of habitually breaking bilateral agreements with other nations or indigenous tribes. Not so for the U.S. government. Between 1778 to 1871, the U.S. government executed 500+ formal treaties with Native American tribes and broke every single one of these agreements.
In 1953, the U.S. installed a Clarence Thomas-like puppet called the “Shah of Iran” to facilitate the theft of Iranian oil for the company that is now known as British Petroleum.
In 1979, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ousted the Shah. Thereafter, Iran became a theocracy operating under U.S. sanctions. Despite these sanctions, Iran matured, grew, and thrived.
Iran's Support of Africa
Iran has a long track-record of supporting and helping people of color in Africa. Iran has major, non-exploitative, bilateral agreements with the following African nations:
Niger for uranium and energy.
Kenya for trade and information technology.
South Africa for refineries and security.
Zimbabwe for medicines and environmental projects.
Uganda for drone technology and critical minerals.
Democratic Republic of the Congo for critical minerals.
Nigeria for energy projects.
Namibia for uranium, nuclear power, manufacturing, beef, agriculture, medicines, and advance educational opportunities.
Burkino Faso for high-grade military technology, including drones, a petroleum refinery, and new capital city.
Trump calls these African nations "Shithole countries" and gratuitously trashes them in the media. He has also cut U.S. aid to all of them while increasing aid to Israel.
Iran's Respectful Treatment of Black Americans
When Iranian students took 66 Americans hostage during the U.S. Embassy takeover that ousted the puppet Shah in 1979, the Iranian government released all 10 Black hostages within the first 16 day of the crisis. The other hostages remained in captivity for 14 months. “Blacks for a long time have lived under oppression and pressure in America and may have been sent [to Iran under duress],” the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said in a statement.
In 1980, when Miami residents took to the streets after four police officers were acquitted in the death of an unarmed Black marine, Iranian state media and officials organized solidarity demonstrations across the country, including a mass rally in Tehran that drew an estimated 200,000 people calling for social justice for Black Americans.
During a 1984 tour of Syria, Libya and Algeria, Iranian president Ali Khamenei promoted the Afro-American Human Rights Watch Committee, an Iran-led initiative intended to address racism in the United States, Israel and apartheid South Africa.
Iran has established itself as a trustworthy and reliable partner for rapidly developing countries throughout the African continent. It has also supported the economic empowerment of U.S. Blacks for nearly five decades.
In contrast, since January 2025, the U.S. government has engaged in a massive and cruel Blitzkrieg against Black Americans to erase their constitutional, civil, and economic rights at every opportunity. This is the cornerstone of the MAGA agenda.
I don't have a problem with Iran. I have a problem with Trump. He is the proven "enemy" of Black Americans.
Trump is a dumb, demented, low-IQ, racist. I will NEVER allow this kind of scumbag to represent my political and economic interests anywhere in the world. MAGA can have this narcissistic buffoon. He is milking them dry with all of his Ponzi schemes, nonstop grifting, and presidential scams. The $8 per gallon gas prices that are coming in June should wipe MAGA out, especially those who are driving the gas-guzzler monster trucks that are decorated with Trump flags. The Iranians are thoroughly kicking Trump's ass and everybody in Washington knows it. Trump is on his way to China now to get on his knees and beg President Xi Jinping for help with the Iranians.
I never allow any politician to choose my friends or enemies. They lie to the American public too much to give them that kind of power over me. I choose my own friends and enemies, period.