In his interview with CBS’ Nora O’Donnell on Sunday, President Joe Biden gave the impression that he was betting Iran, but Iran is brazenly violating the limits of its nuclear activities, which he accepted as a component of his 2015 nuclear deal with iran’s government. Obama’s leadership and its European components.
Hours before Biden’s assembly with CBS, Iranian leader Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic would not carry out its illicit nuclear activities until Biden repealed U. S. economic sanctions opposing the regime.
O’Donnell asked Biden if he would meet Khamenei’s condition. Biden responded with a sudden “no” and then nodded after O’Donnell asked if “did they finish uranium enrichment first?”
Back in the studio, CBS’ Margret Brennan concluded: “It turns out there’s a dead end. “
But drama aside, there’s no snlock.
On Monday, Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki made an effort to oppose Biden’s comments: “If we announce a primary policy change, we would do so in another with a slight nod,” he said.
Even before Biden’s difficult speech and nod, Bloomberg News reported that Biden and his team should do things anyway: they need to help Iran financially despite the fact that their extensive uranium enrichment and other nuclear activities obviously show that Iran’s nuclear efforts are and need to help Iran without having to protect its policies in a cracking fight with Republicans over the suspension of sanctions. According to the report, the administration plans to provide Iran with U. S. -backed International Monetary Fund loans and other foreign aid, which Biden and his advisers may simply call COVID-19 relief.
Finding a way to give Tehran money isn’t the only way Biden and his advisers play softball, not hardball, with ayatollahs.
Last week, the administration facilitated the continuation through Iran’s Houthi agent over a giant domain of Yemen, from which it conducts missile and drone movements opposed to Saudi Arabia, an ally of the United States.
One of the many strategic weaknesses of the 2015 nuclear agreement, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA), which ignored Iran’s non-nuclear aggression: its indirect wars in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Gaza and Lebanon, its sponsorship of terror in the Middle East and the world, and its ballistic missile programs.
While then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Biden and his advisers promoted JCPOA as a non-proliferation agreement, its effect is not to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. With its sunset clauses, THE JCPOA guaranteed the acquisition of nuclear weapons. through Iran in 10 to thirteen years and facilitated Iran’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East.
Obama admitted this is the case in an interview with NPR in August 2015. At the expiration of the jcPOA’s restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities, Obama said that “their departure times [to an independent army nuclear capability] would have been reduced to almost zero. “
By postponing UN Security Council sanctions opposing Iran in exchange for the regime’s agreement to suspend some of its nuclear paintings for a limited period, JCPOA enriched Iran with the $150 billion song. As then-Secretary of State John Kerry brazenly acknowledged, these budgets provided the regime with the monetary means to advance its efforts towards regional hegemony through its representatives in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.
In short, JCPOA provided Iran with an open path to a nuclear arsenal and the relief of the sanctions Iran has won has provided the regime with the economic means to expand its non-nuclear aggression through terrorism, indirect wars, and ballistic missile progression. region, and indeed all over the world.
In an interview with Reuters in 2017, a major source of the Iranian government said that in January 2017, Qassem Suleimani, then commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Quds Force, held an assembly with Houthi leaders in Tehran. “In that assembly, [the Iranians] agreed to increase the amount of aid [to the Houthis] through training, weapons, and monetary support. Yemen is the country where the real war for power is taking place, and winning the war in Yemen will outline the balance of forces in the Middle East,” the source boasts.
Since 2014, The Houthis have controlled about 30% of Yemen, adding spaces where 80% of the population lives. Like Iran, the Houthis have pledged to destroy the United States and Israel. Since 2014, they have been bordering Saudi Arabia to attack Saudi oil rigs, cities and ships with missiles and drones provided through Iran.
Trump began restoring U. S. economic sanctions that opposed Iran in 2018, and in 2019, sanctions would have forced Iran to particularly diminish its for its various agents, the Houthis added.
Last November, the Houthis attacked Jeddah with a long-range missile that, according to a Houthi spokesman, originally evolved to attack Israel. Two months later, in one of his final acts, Trump’s leadership officially designated the Houthis as a foreign terrorist group.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken said at his first press convention that the Trump administration’s first policy the new administration intended to overthrow was the terrorist designation of the Houthis and the trump administration’s general position in Yemen. announced that the United States was actually changing course. Aside from the policies of the Trump and Obama administrations, Biden said his administration was ending Saudi army operations in Yemen and canceling “relevant arms sales” to the Saudis.
The next day, the State Department announced that management reversed Trump’s leadership designation of the Houthis as a terrorist group, ending sanctions of the past direction opposed to the Iranian agent, who arrived just after the Houthis opened a new drone and missile flight. movements opposed to Saudi Arabia.
Alongside the Houthis who oppose Saudi Arabia, Biden helped Iran assert its position on Yemen through the Houthis and at the expense of Saudi Arabia, and did so without receiving anything in exchange for Iran. Not only has Iran not reduced any of its banned nuclear activities, but it deserves to prevent UN nuclear inspectors from conducting intrusive inspections of its nuclear sites from 21 February. for seven months.
Biden’s efforts to empower Iran and its Houthi agent opposed to Arab allies in the Gulf of the United States will be very expensive for the region and the United States, make regional warfare more likely, diminish U. S. regional influence, and open the door to China and Russia to upgrade the United States as superpowers in the region.
Biden’s policy raises the possibility of a war because it encourages Iran to expand its aggression, convincing rejected US allies that they still have no option to take action against Iran and its nuclear program before it is too late.
Biden diminishes U. S. influence by telling Iran that it has no explanation as to why worry the United States, which rewards the regime even as it rushes to the nuclear end line and wages indirect wars opposed to America’s allies. allies back on the sidewalk.
That brings us to Russia and China. Both powers saw an opportunity to expand their presence in the region at the expense of the United States under Obama’s administration. In 2014, when Obama and his team realigned U. S. foreign policy with Iran in Persian. Gulf and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Russia began negotiating the sale of primary weapons to Egypt for the first time since the 1970s. Since then, Egypt has purchased Russian SU-35, Fulcrums MiG-29M/M2 fighter jets, Ka-52 attack helicopters and S-300 air defense missile systems.
Saudi Arabia has purchased the much more complex S-400 air defense missile system, such as ballistic missiles and Chinese drones. The United Arab Emirates also purchased Chinese drones.
While Trump has worked hard to rebuild America’s credibility, he has worked hard to rebuild America’s credibility. But it’s not the first time With the Sunni states of the Gulf and Egypt, Congress’ hostility to Saudi Arabia and us political instability. But it’s not the first time It has prevented Trump and his advisers from persuading his allies to change course. Now, Biden makes it clear that they were right not to leave all their eggs in the American basket.
Biden’s difficult speech on Iran last weekend was a thin layer covering a policy of deep weakness toward Iran. Politics is doubly because, thanks in a giant component to U. S. economic sanctions, Iran is on the brink of collapse. Undoes everything Trump has done, Biden’s administration is exerting its influence and giving Khamenei the upper hand. In the process, the administration increases the threat of war, loses America’s Arab allies, and empowers China and Russia at the expense of the United States.
Caroline B. Glick is lead columnist for Israel Hayom and The Israeli Solution: A Plan for a State for Peace in the Middle East (Crown Forum, 2014). From 1994 to 1996, he was a key member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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