Nancy Pelosi Dismisses Protesters in Iran: ‘Different Reasons Why People Are in the Street’

RUSH EXCERPT:

PELOSI: “The regime — the protesters are protesting as I understand it this brand of protesters about the fact that plane went down. And many students were on that plane. And these are largely students. I think the Iranians shouldn’t have had commercial flights. The fact is this, there were protesters in the streets before against the regime. After the taking out of soleimani there were protesters in the streets joined together as you know against us that wasn’t good. Taking down this plane is a terrible, terrible tragedy. And they should be held accountable for letting commercial flights go at a time that was so, so dangerous. But there are different reasons why people are in the street, of course, we’d love to see the aspirations of the people of Iran realized for the better situation there. But escalating the situation — unless we’ve exhausted every other remedy — ”