The Biden Administration's Campaign to "Make Anti-American Dictatorships Great Again"
by Majid Rafizadeh • March 19, 2022 at 5:00 am
Buying oil from the mullahs of Iran means funding a regime that sponsors global terrorism and that is determined, as an oblation, to wipe out Israel and attack the US.
One day after the United Nations Security Council voted in favor of lifting the arms embargo on Iran in October 2020, the ruling mullahs unveiled a ballistic missile that reportedly can reach the United States. The headline of an August 15, 2020 report by Iran's state-controlled Afkar News read in Farsi, "American Soil Is Now Within the Range of Iranian Bombs".
The report boasted about the damage that the Iranian regime could inflict on the US: "By sending a military satellite into space, Iran now has shown that it can target all American territory; the Iranian parliament had previously warned [the US] that an electromagnetic nuclear attack on the United States would likely kill 90 percent of Americans." — Afkar News, August 15, 2020.
The report also threatened the EU, which voted for lifting an arms embargo against Iran: "The same type of ballistic missile technology used to launch the satellite could carry nuclear, chemical or even biological weapons to wipe Israel off the map, hit US bases and allies in the region and US facilities, and target NATO even in the far west of Europe."
The Biden administration, meanwhile, reportedly views Russia, China and Iran as "partners," "competitors, or deal-makers." Russia, China and Iran are not "partners". They are not "competitors." They are aggressors. You bet they would like to "help" the United States with "climate change" and "going green": it would give them a vast new market for their oil and gas and as well as increased leverage over the West. European and the US reports already allege that Russian "dark money" (anonymous funding) has been going to Western non-governmental environmental groups to advance that agenda.
An America dependent for its oil and gas on anti-democratic dictatorships would be a windfall, economically and politically, beyond their dreams. Imagine an America reliant on the warmhearted goodwill of Russia and China.
Now, in the new "Iran deal," it seems that not only has Russia been serving as the negotiator for the United States, and that the US has agreed to waive $10 billion in sanctions it just finished placing on Russia for having invaded Ukraine so that Russia will be able to build a nuclear plant in Iran, but also, according to Rep. Michael Waltz*, that all enriched uranium from Iran will now be sent to Russia. To top it off, according to Waltz, the new arbiter of whether or not Iran is in compliance with the deal, will be – Russia. What could possibly go wrong?
The West is in for yet another shock as the Biden administration seems to be turning to the Iranian regime -- and approached the illegitimate government of Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela -- to purchase their oil instead of increasing US domestic oil production.
Instead of providing thousands of Americans with high-paying jobs by exporting American oil and gas to Europe and other American allies, the US appears committed to enriching and empowering some of the world's most brutal and implacable dictatorships, starting with Russia and Iran, who appear to have no plans to stop or even mitigate their unneighborly behavior.
During an interview on March 2 about spiking oil prices, MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle asked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg if the Biden administration is considering activating the Keystone XL Pipeline or "working something out with Iran". Instead of responding that the US will not buy oil from top state sponsor of terrorism, Buttigieg said:
