Remember how bad Obama's 2015 Iran deal was? Remember how we gave $150 billion American dollars to an authoritarian theocratic regime hellbent on wiping us off the face of the earth?
This is the regime Obama and then-VP Biden decided to support, using the insane leftist idea that you can solve tyranny and democratize a foreign nation through economic stimulus (the same approach that has failed in China and every other freakin' place it's been tried):
The deal was so bad (and I mean so, so, so bad) that it was condemned by both the Right and the Left. I have to give the former president credit for uniting us on the issue of not giving money to depraved terrorists.
Thanks, Obama!
Trump reimposed sanctions on the Iranian government, scrapped the Iran deal, and yeeted Iran's top war criminal into the afterlife. Then, just to slap Obama's worldview in the face a few more times, he went and negotiated peace between Israel and four Arab Muslim nations.
But Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – no doubt tired of all this peace with Israel – is looking forward to happier, more violent days under a possible Biden administration.
Last Thursday, Rouhani touted the wonderful things the global exporter of terror and death can look forward to under an Iran Deal 2.0:
"I have no doubt that the heroic national resistance of Iran is going to compel the future U.S. government to bow... and the sanctions will be broken," he said in a televised address.
Biden himself said in September that he would rejoin the deal:
"If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations."
Oh, I'm sure a government that exists to spread Shi'a Islam across the world – and which views the very existence of Israel and Christendom (what's left of it) as the most crucial barrier to that goal – will tOtaLLy stay on the up and up about their development of nuclear technology. It's not like they shoot citizens in the face and imprison them in barbaric jails while suppressing any news to the contrary! They promise they'll be good!
"If the sanctions can be lifted in a correct, wise, Iranian-Islamic, and dignified manner, this should be done," said Rouhani to citizens during his Thursday address. "But our main focus should be on neutralizing the sanctions, and the initiative for this is in your hands. The lifting of sanctions is in the hands of the enemy, but nullifying them is in our hands."
Let's take a quick second to remember that Biden's choice for Secretary of State has been soft on Iran and wrong on every foreign policy maneuver of the last two decades. Instead of designating Iran and its forces as terrorists, he's in favor of giving them latitude on the world stage while applying pressure behind the scenes.
Presumably, that would include remaining silent while Iran captures our soldiers at gunpoint and parades them through the streets as they did under the Obama-Biden administration.
Of course, Democrats and establishment Republicans may be looking for a new war sometime soon, so there's always the chance of a new conflict or two with Iran just to line the political coffers.
Oh, one more thing: who really suffers under weak, cowardly American policy is the Iranian people. Their government has oppressed them for more than four decades. They cannot speak out without being detained, tortured, and killed by the secret police. While our own youth are marching through the streets burning American flags, they support America. Iranians want freedom. They need someone to step up to the bullies that rule them.
Just watch these guys go out of the way to avoid walking on the American/Israeli flags the Iranian government puts outside of buildings (so people can walk on and trample them):
Remember that should Biden and the media try to sell you on how good a new Iranian deal would be for the world.
