Biden won’t hit Iran for killing three Americans — he helped the mullahs do it

Don’t buy the hype: When President Biden finally responds to the deadly Iran-backed attack on American troops in Jordan, odds are he’ll both dispel the concerns of fearmongers hysterical he is going to bomb Iran and dash the dreams of hawks demanding he do so.

This was apparent even before his administration leaked it will strike Iranian personnel and facilities in Iraq and Syria, giving the regime ample time to close up shop and evacuate.

For Biden to strike Tehran’s tentacles, let alone the head of the octopus with the overwhelming force necessary to deter it — à la President Donald Trump’s strike on Iranian terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani — would be to completely contradict his entire Middle East policy.

In a continuation of the Obama-Biden administration policy before it, the president has subordinated nearly all else to making the mullocracy the regional “strong horse,” under the perverse premise putting Iran First — and the screws to our Israeli friends and anti-Islamist Arab partners — will produce order and peace over instability and war.

Biden has sought since day one to appease and empower the Islamic revolutionary regime and its proxies, fueling and incentivizing ever-greater aggression.

His administration has refused to enforce sanctions on Iranian oil sales, flowing tens of billions of dollars into the regime’s coffers; provided billions more in sanctions relief, including the notorious $6 billion ransom payment made for the September hostage exchange; rescinded Trump-imposed United Nations snapback sanctions on its nuclear and weapons programs and let embargoes on Iranian missiles and long-range drones lapse — all while shrugging off Iran’s 80-plus attacks on our forces before Oct. 7, the bounties on the heads of Trump administration officials and plots to assassinate dissidents on our soil.

These efforts were critical to a desperate attempt to reprise the Iran nuclear deal from which Trump had withdrawn, under which President Barack Obama had financially bailed out the mullahs, legitimized their nuclear program and put them on a glide path to a bomb.

That attempt failed despite the best efforts of lead negotiator and alleged Iranian spy ringleader Rob Malley to make the deal even sweeter for Tehran than the original in the way of sanctions relief and nuclear concessions.

Meanwhile, Iran rapidly advanced its nuclear program, yielding near-weapons-grade enriched uranium.

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