Ben Rhodes, former President Obama's deputy national security adviser, architect of the Iran deal and an overt liar who told the American public that Iran was on its way to moderation if only the United States would loosen economic restrictions on the terror state, has placed blame for volatility squarely before Trump.
Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser during the Iran deal and another overt liar who told the American public that Islamic terror against our Benghazi embassy was rooted in anger over a YouTube video, soberly informed Americans that "Americans would be wise to brace for war." Biden suggested that in throwing out the Iran deal, Trump had paved the way for war - and, oh, by the way, the Iran deal was "Airtight."
This is a deliberate misreading of history designed to absolve the Obama administration of its Iran policy debacle.
The administration pursued a policy of strengthening Iran economically - and did so while openly acknowledging that Iran would use that newly gained economic strength to pursue terrorism and ballistic missile testing.
In the past few months, Iran and its proxies have attacked shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi oil facilities, an American drone and an American embassy, among other targets.
The Iran deal was simply an attempt to whistle past the graveyard with the terror regime - to pay it off long enough so that President Barack Obama could declare the problem handled.
Now Iran has come face to face with the prospect that actions have consequences - and those consequences don't involve pallets of cash being shipped over to fund terror organizations that span the globe.
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2020/01/08/trumps-iran-policy-isnt-the-problem-barack-obamas-was-n2559121
Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser during the Iran deal and another overt liar who told the American public that Islamic terror against our Benghazi embassy was rooted in anger over a YouTube video, soberly informed Americans that "Americans would be wise to brace for war." Biden suggested that in throwing out the Iran deal, Trump had paved the way for war - and, oh, by the way, the Iran deal was "Airtight."
This is a deliberate misreading of history designed to absolve the Obama administration of its Iran policy debacle.
The administration pursued a policy of strengthening Iran economically - and did so while openly acknowledging that Iran would use that newly gained economic strength to pursue terrorism and ballistic missile testing.
In the past few months, Iran and its proxies have attacked shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi oil facilities, an American drone and an American embassy, among other targets.
The Iran deal was simply an attempt to whistle past the graveyard with the terror regime - to pay it off long enough so that President Barack Obama could declare the problem handled.
Now Iran has come face to face with the prospect that actions have consequences - and those consequences don't involve pallets of cash being shipped over to fund terror organizations that span the globe.
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2020/01/08/trumps-iran-policy-isnt-the-problem-barack-obamas-was-n2559121
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