“Never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up” Barack Obama
When it comes to Iran, this quote, which has been acknowledged time and time again over the years, was never truer.
Yes, Joe Biden is saying all the right words in support of Israel now. But where was he until now?
From Majid Rafizadeh’s article for The Gatestone Institute:
- “Look, it’s not even just this $6 billion, which clearly is going to further enrich Iran. It’s closer to $60 billion. If you look at what the Biden administration has done to help this Islamic terrorist regime in Iran by [stopping enforcement of] sanctions, by lifting restrictions, by allowing Iranian oil to increase by 650% over the last year from 400,000 barrels of oil a day to 3 million barrels of oil a day – all of this has strengthened” the Iranian regime. — Former US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Fox News, October 9, 2023.
- Iran provides roughly $100 million a year to Palestinian terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and $700 million a year to Hezbollah.
- Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, meanwhile, has already announced that his country will use the new $6 billion “wherever we need it.”
- “Our strategy is to erase Israel from the global political map.” — Major General Hossein Salami, now commander-in-chief, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, MEMRI, February 4, 2019.
- So far, the Biden administration, in a welcome about-face, has been superb about promising to help Israel defend itself. It is to be hoped that this policy will continue, in Ukraine as well.
- Sadly, however, to the Biden administration, the glaringly central role of Iran, without which Hamas would be able to do nothing, remains nowhere in sight.
The Biden administration, despite knowing that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the largest funder of the terror group Hamas, nevertheless decided to relax sanctions on Iranian oil exports. In 2020, Iran’s economy had a reported trade deficit of $3.45 billion; by 2023, according to former US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe:
“Look, it’s not even just this $6 billion, which clearly is going to further enrich Iran. It’s closer to $60 billion. If you look at what the Biden administration has done to help this Islamic terrorist regime in Iran by [stopping enforcement of] sanctions, by lifting restrictions, by allowing Iranian oil to increase by 650% over the last year from 400,000 barrels of oil a day to 3 million barrels of oil a day – all of this has strengthened [the Iranian regime]”
The article goes on to show chapter and verse of how just about everything Biden did until now has facilitated Iran…thus hamas and hezbollah….and funded their activities, thus the slaughter of over 1,300 Israelis last week.
And that is before we get to the fact that former President Donald Trump, seeing what the money was being used for, canceled US payments to “The Palestinians” in 2018 – but, upon taking office, Joe Biden promptly reinstated them. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Where do you think that money went, Joe? What do you suppose it paid for?
I am no fan of Barack Obama. But I have to say that his assessment of Joe Biden’s capacity to eff things up was spot-on correct.
And lucky us, we still have him for at least the next 15 months.
