Recent days have brought good news and bad. We've seen policies
we've long supported advance and seen bipartisan opposition to US
capitulation to Iran's every whim in negotiations over the Islamic
Republic's quest for nuclear weapons. On the other hand, we've seen
said capitulation continue to serve as the cornerstone of the Biden
administration's foreign policy approach and we saw an Iranian attack
on American facilities in Iraq.

The Omnibus Bill Passes

Late last week Congress passed the Omnibus spending bill which funds the
government for the remainder of the fiscal year and included a number of
key provisions of import to the pro-Israel community. The bill included
the annual agreed upon US support for Israel's military, the
supplemental Iron Dome missile defense resupply funding held up for
months by Sen. Rand Paul and additional support for Israel's missile
defense program. The bill even restated Americans' opposition to
aiding the Palestinian Authority so long as that entity continues paying
people to commit acts of terror.

As CUFI Action Fund Chairwoman Sandra Parker put it
,
"We are grateful to the Congressional leadership in both chambers and
from both parties for moving this legislation forward. In addition to
the financial support enabling Israel to defend itself and fight shared
American and Israeli enemies like Hezbollah this legislation also
reiterates the importance of the Taylor Force Act and ensures aid falls
within the law."

Congress Express Concerns

In more Congressional news, Senate Republicans sent a letter to
President Biden on Monday in which they let the leader of the free world
know that it would be futile to sign an Iran deal which "provide[s]
substantial sanctions relief in exchange for merely short-term
limitations on Iran's nuclear program."

Well, almost all the Senate Republicans did. Sen. Rand Paul was the lone
Republican who did not sign the letter. Anyone seeing a pattern? But we
digress...

The letter, which

**nearly** all Senate Republicans signed, eloquently warns the President
against making a terrible deal with Iran and yet again lays out what a
good, sustainable Iran deal requires.

"We would be willing and eager to support an Iran policy that
completely blocks Iran's path to a nuclear weapons capability,
constrains Iran's ballistic missile program, and confronts Iran's
support for terrorism. But if the administration agrees to a deal that
fails to achieve these objectives or makes achieving them more
difficult, Republicans will do everything in our power to reverse it,"
the Senators wrote.

Republicans aren't the only ones concerned with the Biden
administration's reported capitulation to the Islamic Republic. In
fact, in recent weeks two members of Biden's own Iran negotiating team
have quit over the direction the talks were going. And Democrats have
also expressed concerns about what they're hearing. Will President
Biden listen? Doesn't seem likely. In fact, on Tuesday reports came
out that the US has assured Russia that sanctions against Moscow for its
inhumane invasion of Ukraine will not impact Russia's ability to do
business with Iran under Biden's Iran nuclear accord. Anyone seeing a
pattern?

Iran Launches Missiles

All of this comes literally days after Iran launched a dozen missiles at
Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq. The
missiles were aimed at an area where the US is building a consulate.
Thankfully no one was killed. One Kurdish worker was hurt. There's no
ambiguity about where the missiles came from: Iran's Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) took responsibility for the act of
war.

Currently the IRGC is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
because, not to put too fine a point on it but the IRGC is the backbone
of the Islamic Republic's international terrorist network. Reports
have come out recently that Iran is demanding the IRGC have its
terrorist designation removed, and that the Biden administration may do
just that. Anyone seeing a pattern?

At the end of the day, American weakness continues to embolden the worst
actors on the planet. From Moscow to Tehran we are seeing the world
remade for the worse as a result of Biden's policy of appeasement.

We're not holding out hope that the Biden administration will listen
to the Republicans, Democrats or even their own (former) employees who
can't stomach the White House's weakness. But we are playing close
attention to what the President's co-equal branch of government might
do because at this point, only Congress (less Sen. Paul, the Squad and
the rest of the Hamas caucus) can save the day. They finally passed the
Omnibus bill, maybe they can likewise finally pull American foreign
policy from the edge of the cliff.

Sincerely,

CUFI Action Fund Team

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