Putting Iran’s ‘violence, bloodshed and chaos’ in the spotlight The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy By David Amess The Washington Times, September 28, 2017 --  Washington Times,  deserves credit for his first-ever address to the U.N. General Assembly last week. While his comments on Iran made many of the gathered world leaders and diplomats feel uneasy, his observations were actually spot on. Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, no U.S. president has ever provided such a poignant description of the theocratic  regime  in Iran. “The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos. The longest-suffering victims of Iran’s leaders are, in fact, its own people.” One’s view of Mr. Trump’s policies, ch...