{"id":82348,"date":"2020-12-02T17:05:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82348"},"modified":"2020-11-25T09:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:30:35","slug":"02-05-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82348","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden has underestimated Iran \u2013 opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Joe Biden has underestimated Iran \u2013 opinion<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

MILY SCHRADER <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Iran is still the sinister player in the Middle East
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\nU.S. Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event about the U.S. economy at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware, U.S., June 5, 2020. \/ (photo credit: REUTERS\/JIM BOURG)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As the United States begins to transition away from the Trump administration, there is already great concern when it comes to the future Biden administration and Iran. Whether or not one supports President-elect Joe Biden, every American \u2013 and Israeli \u2013 should be concerned at the idea of a US president who is unwilling to see Iran for the sinister player in the Middle East it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

For years, Iran has been meddling in Syria (and the rest of the Middle East) and serving as a destabilizing and violent force \u2013 by funding and aiding terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, training Syrian forces to carry out their strategic operations, and setting up military bases. Thanks to Iran, dozens of military sites controlled by Hezbollah are located on the Golan Heights border.<\/span><\/p>\n

Understandably, the IDF\u2019s response has been to repeatedly strike Iranian targets in Syria that were established since 2011 to carry out espionage and military activities against Israel. This month, tensions escalated after the IDF discovered three bombs on the Syria-Israel border that were placed by Syrians at the behest of Iran in a failed attack. The IDF retaliated by heavily striking, \u201cwarehouses, command posts and military complexes, as well as batteries of surface-to-air missiles\u201d in Syria that were controlled by Iran. Fourteen Iranian or pro-Iranian forces were reported killed in the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran (as has been its policy for years) flatly denies building a military presence in the region, and in an almost comical facade, claims its presence in Syria is merely \u201cadvisory.\u201d Following the recent IDF airstrikes, Iran both restated its role is advisory and not military, while simultaneously threatening Israel with a \u201ccrushing response\u201d to its actions. Anyone who cannot read between the lines and see Iran\u2019s malicious intent is either ignorant or willfully blind.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Iran\u2019s military \u201cexports\u201d (or should we say \u201cadvisory roles\u201d?) aren\u2019t limited to Syria. Iran has nearly destroyed Lebanon by emboldening Hezbollah; it has decimated Yemen with an ongoing bloody conflict and military and fiscal support for an Iranian proxy group; it has escalated a desperate situation in Iraq by setting up proxy militias there; and it has sent Shia militias to fight in Libya on behalf of Turkey as well. All this while it continues to develop its nuclear program far beyond the limits specified in the Iran nuclear deal, and systematically violates the most basic of human rights for its own citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

You would think the US president-elect, no matter party he represented, would know better than to believe a regime hell-bent on war in five countries (and counting). Sadly, Mr. Biden has expressed his commitment to the completely defunct Iran nuclear deal in what is likely an overreaction to Trump\u2019s policies \u2013 even the good ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of taking a stand against the bloodthirsty Iranian regime, President-elect Biden would like to lift sanctions on Iran imposed by President Trump in 2015, enabling them to even more effectively fund terrorism and violence throughout the region. A return to the Iran deal would also be a hugely unpopular decision with Gulf states, including key US allies such as Saudi Arabia, which has expanded cooperation and ties with the United States throughout Trump\u2019s presidency. Appealing to, or rather appeasing Iran, is sending the wrong message to Iran and the wrong message to American allies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Proponents of the Iran deal, which includes some of Biden\u2019s supporters, argue that the Iran deal is the \u201cbest we can get\u201d and that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is more \u201cmoderate\u201d than other Iranian hardliners. But these proponents are missing a critical point: You don\u2019t give in to bullies, and you don\u2019t appease genocidal dictatorships. Returning to the Iran deal would mean just that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of Trump\u2019s and Biden\u2019s starkly contrasting policies on domestic issues in America, both men should absolutely agree on one thing: Iran is a violent, human-rights abusing, terrorist-supporting regime that acts without any regard for international law and puts American lives at risk. The threat of Iran should be perceived as bipartisan because it is bipartisan. After all, intercontinental ballistic missiles don\u2019t discriminate between Democrats and Republicans. It would be a historic mistake of the incoming Biden administration to throw out Trump\u2019s policy on Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The writer is CEO of Social Lite Creative LLC.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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