By Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE 23 December 2023
- If the Biden administration thought that by rescuing Iran’s economy, which had hit bottom, and removing the Houthis from the list of Foreign Terror Organizations would make both Iran into an ally, the generosity appears to have backfired.
- If the Iranian regime is allowed to advance to nuclear weapons capability, it will be on course finally to drive the US out of the region; threaten its oil-rich neighbors; destabilize Europe; deploy military assets in Venezuela and Cuba, and, at last, come for the “Great Satan,” the United States.
- It must be made unmistakably clear to Iran that the United States will not allow Iran’s current regime, a designated state sponsor of terrorism, to arm itself with nuclear weapons and emerge as yet another global nuclear threat in the Middle East, Europe and South America.
The Biden administration’s policies of placating the ruling mullahs of Iran and their proxy, Yemen’s Houthis, have clearly failed. If the Biden administration thought that by rescuing Iran’s economy, which had hit bottom, and removing the Houthis from the list of Foreign Terror Organizations would make both Iran into an ally, the generosity appears to have backfired. Iran’s regime financed and helped plan the invasion of the invasion of Israel by Hamas, which is another Iranian proxy. Iran has been arming the Houthis to target US and its allies in the region, and disrupt the shipping in the Red Sea, and Iran’s militias in Syria and Iraq have fired on US troops more than 100 times just since October 17.
It is only the warships that the Biden administration helpfully placed in the Eastern Mediterranean that have most likely deterred yet another Iranian proxy, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, from further escalating their attacks on Israel’s north. The Iranian regime has become disruptive to the highest level since the Iran-Iraq war, and unfortunately, due to what seems a hugely misguided security paralysis in Washington D.C, shows no signs of letting up.
If the Iranian regime is allowed to advance to nuclear weapons capability, it will be on course finally to drive the US out of the region; threaten its oil-rich neighbors; destabilize Europe; deploy military assets in Venezuela and Cuba, and, at last, come for the “Great Satan,” the United States.
Iran’s involvement in the wars against Ukraine and Israel continues to broaden. Iran and Russia are fast making headway constructing a plant in Russia that will mass-produce Iranian-designed kamikaze drones, presumably to help Moscow attack Ukrainian targets.
The root of the [roblem is that numerous U,S, senior officials, wityh the highest security clearances were not only born in Iran, but used to work for the Iranian government as lobbyists and propagandists. There is also the problem that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken were both anti-Israel activists, His father was a foreign correspondent for an anti-Israel Egyptian newspaper, even though he was a Jew. It is this past background of pro-Iran, anti-Israel background so many of the Biden administration;s senior foreign policy officials that makes it almost impossible for any shift away from support for Iran and its proxies, including Hamas and Hizbollah, impossible as long as BIden remains president. If Vice President Kamla Harris, and outspoken critic of Israel, suceeds Biden as President, Israel’s situation will be even worse.