Saudi prince feels the chill as Biden gives cold shoulder
On Thursday, Biden ordered, for the first time since taking office, an attack on Iranian militia sites in Syria, following several attacks against US forces in Iraq.
The counterpunch came at a sensitive time, when the US and its European allies are considering a return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Biden tried to signal to the Iranians that America would not bow down to their threats, but without creating irreparable damage to the prospects of negotiations of the JCPOA 2.0.
“You can’t act with impunity. Be careful,” Biden told reporters in Texas when asked what message he was sending Iran.
“I think there was an imperative to do something, without doing anything meaningful — thus, bomb empty buildings in a bombed-out Syria,” Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Mishpacha.
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