In its zeal to get a nuclear deal with Iran, is the Biden administration signaling that America itself is a free-fire zone for Iranian violence?
US federal officials have charged four Iranian nationals with plotting to kidnap an Iranian-American journalist, activist and author “for mobilising public opinion in Iran and around the world” against the Iranian government’s laws and practices, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Tuesday.
Aren't "friends we haven't made yet" grand?
No worries, Biden forgives all:
The State Department informed Congress late Tuesday that it would waive sanctions on Iran's illicit oil trade so that the country can access frozen funds from South Korea and Japan, the same day the Department of Justice announced charges on an Iranian spy network that sought to kidnap an American.
Did they get rid of the America Desk at the Department of State already?
Not that this is new behavior. Do you recall the Iranian plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C.?
The criminal complaint alleges that, from the spring of 2011 to October 2011, Arbabsiar and his Iran-based co-conspirators, including Shakuri of the Qods Force, have been plotting the murder of the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. In furtherance of this conspiracy, Arbabsiar allegedly met on a number of occasions in Mexico with a DEA confidential source (CS-1) who has posed as an associate of a violent international drug trafficking cartel. According to the complaint, Arbabsiar arranged to hire CS-1 and CS-1’s purported accomplices to murder the Ambassador, and Shakuri and other Iran-based co-conspirators were aware of and approved the plan. With Shakuri’s approval, Arbabsiar has allegedly caused approximately $100,000 to be wired into a bank account in the United States as a down payment to CS-1 for the anticipated killing of the Ambassador, which was to take place in the United States.
And do you recall that we did nothing about Iran then, too?
The Iranians are learning that no outrage they commit is enough to persuade Biden officials that Iran is an enemy who can't be trusted in a nuclear deal. Indeed, the outrages become part of the reason they believe such a deal is urgent.
Truly, I do not understand why Democrats love the mullahs so much.
