He launched into a monologue alternating between grievances and fantasies about the United States: American sanctions harming the Iranian people are illegal under the U.N. charter, and the Americans maliciously manipulated the U.N. Security Council into following suit. U.S. leaders intentionally sow havoc globally in order to distract the American people from their country�s declining power. The Americans prop up illegitimate regimes in the Middle East and then just toss them aside when inconvenient, leaving chaos and violence. Look at Iraq. Look at Libya. Look at Afghanistan. Trusting the United States always leads to disaster. U.S. democracy is in meltdown, as witnessed by the Occupy Wall Street protests (which had concluded nine months earlier, an eternity in American political life). On and on, for well over an hour.