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** US and UN's Dangerous Flirtation: Cuddling with Iran ([link removed])
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by Majid Rafizadeh • June 1, 2024 at 5:00 am
* Since President Joe Biden assumed office in 2021, Iran has attacked US troops in the Middle East more than 170 times, apparently to drive US troops out of the region, to be able to continue "exporting the Revolution" unhindered. At present, Iran controls, in addition to its own country, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, the Gaza Strip, and appears to be eyeing Jordan and Sudan.
* Ever since the presidency of Barack Obama, much US policy, no matter how decisively all evidence appears to point the other way, seems to entertain the fantasy of "bringing Iran in from the cold" -- a bit like assuming a beloved lady-of-the-night will be a submissive wife, cook and homemaker.
* The conclusion always somehow appears to be that the US is just not trying hard enough: if only America would offer just a few more concessions or a few more billions, or send a better negotiator, Iran would see the error of its ways.
* The US, unfortunately, has undertaken a dangerous flirtation with a regime that embodies nothing but terror and extremism.
* These assaults by the UN are shameful acts of complicity, and only further highlight the troubling trend of international bodies and leaders who turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the Iranian regime and its proxies, and give terrorists a bigger weapon with which to bludgeon democracies.
* The message the Biden administration is sending to the people of Iran and to America's allies is not to look to the US for help. To the Iranian people, who risk their lives every day in their struggle to overthrow this oppressive regime, the Biden administration, like Obama's, has sent only devastating indifference.
* The administration seems not to care about [the American and other hostages] any more than they cared about the Americans and allies of the US who were abandoned and are still captive in Afghanistan. The message being sent again and again by the Biden administration is that if you want a reliable ally, go look somewhere else.

Ever since the presidency of Barack Obama, much US policy, no matter how decisively all evidence appears to point the other way, seems to entertain the fantasy of "bringing Iran in from the cold" -- a bit like assuming a beloved lady-of-the-night will be a submissive wife, cook and homemaker. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Biden Administration may have set a new record in appeasing the Iranian regime, which is, according to the annual US Terrorism Report, the world's "Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism" and a flagrant violator of human rights.

While people in Iran were celebrating the death of the tyrannical President Ebrahim Raisi, whom they called "the Butcher of Tehran," the Biden Administration was sending condolences to the Iranian regime -- a move that sparked outrage and disbelief among those who champion democratic values and human rights (here, here and here).

The Biden administration was sending condolences to a regime that not only brutalizes its citizens, but that has also been using its militias and proxies -- Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad -- to blow up peace throughout the Middle East, and sending missiles and drones to Russia -- after it illegally seized Georgia and Crimea -- to illegally attack Ukraine.

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