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How Iran's Actions Shape the Middle East: Insights from Rich Goldberg
Rich Goldberg of Foundation for Defense of Democracy discusses how Iran's aggressive actions in the Middle East have been enabled by appeasement policies. Learn why Israel's behavior shouldn't be blamed when Iran continues its provocative actions, and the need for the Biden White House to take stronger measures against Iran's destabilizing behavior.
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He's now with the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, Rich Goldberg.
Rich, what do you make of Julian's report here?
The Biden White House is making vague claims of holding a Iran accountable, but how?
Why should Israel stop its behavior when Iran has not been given a reason to stop?
Well, that's exactly right.
The reason why the Ayatollah and Tehran believed that he could get away with launching 120
ballistic missiles, 30 cruise missiles, 200 drones at Israel in one night is because
of the appeasement policies of this administration, combined with its political warfare against Israel
trying to isolate them. And so it's time to reflect on the policies to lead to Saturday night
and change those policies during the calculation of the Ayatollah into a miscalculation.
Why would they keep defending living Iran $10 billion access after Saturday night?
Why would they keep allowing the oil to float in China without cracking down with our sanctions?
Yeah, I mean they keep trying to keep trying to blame Trump, right?
But they keep doing it.
I mean the Biden White House, you know, it talks tough on Iran, but behind the scenes,
you know, Reuters is reporting just moments ago, Biden White House will not cut off Iran's
oil exports.
Even Bloomberg reported last August, US officials privately said they were going to gradually
relax the sanctions on Iranian oil sales under Biden.
Biden. I mean, Biden, excuse me, Iran has steadily increased oil experts after the
Trump White House saw it tried to zero out those sales.
Right. Remember, according to Joe Biden, American energy is dirty, but Iranian energy is clean
apparently. And so has been a swan energy. That makes a lot of sense for our policy.
But let's go back to what the White House and what the State Department, you just showed
in that clip, have been saying that it is an outright lie. It is a lie. It is a deception.
The Trump administration never allowed Iran access to a single nickel of the money that
Iraq was paying for electricity.
We required that money to be put in an escrow account.
What Biden has done, he has now opened up the escrow account and says the Iranians can
use $10 billion or more, anything they want that's non-sanctionable.
That means it's budget support.
$10 billion now available here, opening up $10 billion there.
It's fun, Joel.
Yeah.
So, let me stay on this.
You know, lawmakers are slamming Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer for claiming to stand with
Israel, despite recently attacking Israel's leadership from the floor of the U.S. Senate.
I mean, the lawmakers are saying Schumer is, you know, he's holding a-a to Israel hostage,
he's playing petty politics.
Israel, again, it had more than 1,200 of its citizens murdered, raped, tortured, including
children.
people kidnapped, but the Biden White House is telling it to exercise your strength.
We understand exactly what's going on in Gaza.
Nobody wants to see civilians hurt or killed and talked about us collateral damage.
That is an issue, but what the issue is is that Hamas wants to destroy Israel, period.
Three points to make here.
Number one, Saturday night reminded us that everything we see in the Middle East from
and Gaza Tiamen is all from the hand of Iran.
If you don't understand that by now,
you're not paying attention.
