Ex-CIA man Larry Johnson yesterday on 'Judging Freedom: INTEL Round Table'

The podcast is here. 

'Donald Trump has created a surge of patriotism in Iran, nationalism, national pride that they will fight and and defy anything that the United States wants to do.  

'You know, I want to combat one of the biggest lies about Iran that uh to recognize they do have limits. They impose limits on what they do to other countries unlike the United States back when the war started in September 1980 when Iraq launched the attack on Iran at the behest of the United States with the support of Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzeziński that continued into the Reagan administration and in August 1983 with support from people like Donald Rumsfeld by providing chemical precursors Iraq launched the first of chemical weapon attacks, weapons of mass destruction on Iran and those continued for the next six years with the last one taking place in August of 1988.

'During that entire time, Iran never retaliated with chemical weapons and did not start building chemical weapons for the same reason they didn't build a nuclear weapon. It was haram. It was a sin. These are people that actually live by some honorable principles, unlike the United States who sucker punched a country that was trying to negotiate in good faith, who murdered girls, schoolgirls, and killed a female volleyball team, among other things. And why? All based on a lie, a claim that Iran was preparing to attack us when in the history of the 46 years that Iran's been around, it's been the United States that's been sponsoring terrorist attacks against Iran, including the our proxy use of Iraq to attack Iran and inflict over 300,000 dead Iranians. Americans need to wake up to this lie, this audacious lie. It's not Iran that threatens us. We threaten the world.'