Biden’s dovish posture toward Iran emboldened Tehran in its attack on Israel: experts

[mystery-ak]

Biden’s dovish posture toward Iran emboldened Tehran in its attack on Israel: experts
John Kirby rejected criticism that the White House is soft on Tehran
By Benjamin Weinthal Fox News
Published April 15, 2024 4:00am EDT

JERUSALEM — American and Israeli experts issued scathing indictments of President Biden’s alleged timid Iran policy after Tehran launched a massive aerial warfare attack on the Jewish state over the weekend.

The Islamic Republic, for the first time, executed direct missile and drone strikes into Israeli territory. The dramatic events in the heart of the Middle East have triggered calls for the Biden administration to reverse its reportedly dovish outreach to the ayatollahs who run the theocratic state. Biden is now urging Israel to recoil from a counterstrike.

"This was a massive, unprecedented and unacceptable strategic attack on Israel," Richard Goldberg, who was a member of former President Trump’s National Security Council, told Fox News Digital. "It would be a huge mistake to pull Israel back from a military retaliation, but it’s downright insanity to keep $10 billion accessible to Tehran in the aftermath. The president needs to lock down all the money he made available to Tehran these past months."

Last month, Fox News Digital reported that Biden defied opponents of Iran’s regime and waived sanctions on Iran’s cash-starved economy. Biden faced criticism after releasing as much as $10 billion into the coffers of the Islamic Republic. In January, an Iranian regime-sponsored proxy terrorist attack killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan.

The Biden administration insisted that Iran’s regime can’t use the funds for its growing military offensive arsenal. Critics argue that the $10 billion is fungible money and the financial allocation allows Iran to revise its budget to expand its military apparatus.

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https://www.foxnews.com/world/bidens-dovish-posture-toward-iran-emboldened-tehran-in-its-attack-on-israel-experts

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Kirby scrambles, blames Trump admin following Iran attack pushback: ‘DON’T’ is not a foreign policy
April 15, 2024 | Kevin Haggerty

As tough guy rhetoric proved ineffectual yet again, the White House turned to their favorite scapegoat following Iran’s attack against Israel — former President Donald Trump.

Whether considered a paper tiger or an empty suit, or even an empty chair as Clint Eastwood once famously referred to then-President Barack Obama, President Joe Biden’s talk has repeatedly appeared as little more than that on the world stage.

From deterrents that failed to impede Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to a more recent position when questioned on his message “to Hezbollah and its backer, Iran” following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that simply expressed, “Don’t. Don’t, don’t, don’t,” tensions abroad have continually escalated under the current administration.

Appearing on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby attempted to twist that reality into blame against the Trump administration as he contended, “It’s hard to take a look at what President Biden has done and say that we’ve somehow gone soft on Iran.”

“It was the previous administration that decided to get us out of the Iran deal. And now Iran is so much dramatically closer to potential nuclear weapon capability that they were before…Mr. Trump was elected,” he continued.

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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/04/15/kirby-scrambles-blames-trump-admin-following-iran-attack-pushback-dont-is-not-a-foreign-policy-1452581/

[PeteS in CA]

In other news, the Sun will again rise in the east tomorrow.

[GtHawk]

Here's an image of a Kirby that is actually good at its job

  Of course it's only fair to say they both really suck! Three years of the foreign affairs expert inhabiting(occasionally) the Oval Office and all they have is...Trumps fault