Biden’s appeasement has encouraged Iran’s terrorist agenda
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As Israel begins its necessary war against Hamas, the U.S. must do all it can diplomatically and with military and intelligence support to ensure it succeeds.
Unfortunately, although President Joe Biden has offered clear rhetorical support for Israel since the weekend and condemned Hamas’s multipronged atrocities, his record dealing with the world’s worst terrorist regime, Iran, has been weak, dishonest, and shameful. Iran is Hamas’s sponsor in weapons, financing, and other support. Hamas is essentially a terrorist arm of the Tehran regime more than it is a representative of the Palestinian people. If Biden is as serious about supporting Israel as he claims to be, he must abandon his policy of appeasing the religious tyranny in Tehran.
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The most obvious recent example of Biden’s appeasement was his unfreezing of $6 billion for Iran last month. This was a massive bonus prize for Tehran to go with a dangerous and lopsided prisoner swap. Biden officials claim the money can be used only for humanitarian purposes because Qatar will monitor disbursements to ensure funds don’t end up with terrorists.
But this claim treats all listeners, Americans and others, as fools.
Qatar is a key source of funding for international terrorist groups including Hamas. Just in recent days, Hamas leaders have been seen celebrating in luxury Qatari hotels as their followers massacre and kidnap innocent men, women, and children. Even were Qatar determined to stop cash flowing to terrorists, it could not prevent disbursements to front accounts. How can Qatar prevent terrorists skimming money off falsified humanitarian contracts by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? The IRGC controls a vast swath of the Iranian economy, and Biden has gifted it a new investment account for its export of murderous mayhem.
Speaking of the IRGC, remember that it was they who plotted to assassinate former Trump administration officials in the U.S. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei authorized the plots in revenge for the January 2020 U.S. killing of the IRGC’s terrorist kingpin Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Washington must now protect former national security adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and diplomat Brian Hook at a cost of millions of dollars a year, which stretches the resources of the U.S. Secret Service and Diplomatic Security Service. Yet, as the Washington Examiner reported, the Biden administration has sought to avoid even indicting would-be Iranian assassins in fear of disrupting efforts to suck up to Tehran and revive the absurd deal former President Barack Obama struck in 2015.
A sensible and decisive president would have ordered limited military action against Iran to deter it from such plots. Instead, Biden allowed Iran to keep its assassination agenda with impunity. This was encapsulated three weeks ago when Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi used his U.N. address to vilify Israelis, saying, “the ropes of the guilty will bring them to justice.” When asked if Iran remained committed to assassinating Americans, Raisi affirmed that that remains the case, saying, “This cannot be forgotten or forgiven. … The perpetrators … they must meet the punishment for the crime committed.”
Biden responded by doing and saying nothing.
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The administration is culpably obsessed with restoring a fatally flawed nuclear accord. Even if you set aside the fact that Iran has broken the commitments it made in 2015, set aside its covert nuclear weapons research in underground bunkers, set aside the mullahs’ intention to execute a second Holocaust against the Jews, Biden’s policy has been lamentably weak and ineffective. It has demonstrated to Tehran that the U.S. administration lacks resolve and wisdom. This encourages Iranian aggression. Biden made it more, not less, likely that Tehran would press the start button of Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis at the weekend. His policy toward Iran has been unforgivably naive and disingenuous.
The horrors inflicted on Israel should wake the president from his daydreams. He must acknowledge what Iran really is — a terrorist sponsor determined to murder Americans and Israelis. There should be no appeasement of the terrorist state or its network of terror organizations. Biden must reverse course and deal with the world as it really is rather than as, in his somnolent fantasies, he has till now believed it to be.