After 18 months of pleading and begging Iran to return to the failed Obama-Biden 2015 nuclear deal, with concession after concession, Joe Biden may finally be realizing his profoundly weak approach has failed, and Iran may be nearer than ever to having nuclear weapons.
But thanks to President Trump’s historic ‘Abraham Accords’ and the growing regional defenses between Israel and the Arab Gulf States they created; Biden may still have a viable ‘Plan B’ – a robust regional air and missile defense system.
As the Situation Report by FP writes:
…by the administration’s own account, the talks for a new Iran nuclear deal are not going too well. U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said earlier this week that Tehran is much closer to having enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb, with the breakout time down possibly to as little as a week.
That has unnerved both Israel—which is already set for new elections in November—and Saudi Arabia, which both fear a resurgent Iran undermining their security. And ahead of Biden’s visit, the two American partners, which are edging closer to an Abraham Accords-like normalization first initiated by the Trump administration, are worried by the uptick in Iran adding more centrifuges while nuclear diplomacy collapses.
But either way, the name of the game for the Israelis, Biden’s first stop, is deterrence. Though most bilateral and multilateral defense ties in the Middle East are fairly nascent, at best, with no NATO standards for interoperability, a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday that the United States was working on a plan to better integrate regional air and missile defenses—something that already has backing in Congress—given Iran’s progress in developing medium- and long-range ballistic missiles.
However, ‘Plan B’ may not be the best label for this alternative effort, as FP notes:
“It’s not a plan B,” the senior Israeli official said, speaking anonymously according to ground rules set by the Israeli government. “Because even if there’s a new nuclear deal with Iran, it does not cover what Iran is doing in the region.” Israel and the Arab countries will still have to deal with Iranian proxies, missiles, drones—and potentially, they worry, an injection of more cash into Iran’s coffers.
“Iran has to see facing it a credible deterrent,” the official said. “They have to realize that if they cross certain lines and take certain risks, there would be consequences.”
What are those red lines, and what are the consequences? Well, the assassination of key Iranian intelligence and other figures might give a clue, and so might Israel’s growing capability to strike deep into Iran.
Either way, by not forcefully confronting Iranian aggression and terror, Biden has created a more dangerous and volatile region.
Thankfully, the lasting effects of Trump’s Mideast policies might provide Biden, and the region, a small safety net – even as Iran verges on finally getting its nukes. ALD
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Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for state and federal office, taught political science, wrote for the editorial board of a major newspaper and had his own radio show. A graduate of Georgetown, London and Cambridge universities, he brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty – at home and from abroad. To read more go to: paulcrespo.com.
This is a job for IDF and they cannot count on any help from Biden. “Slip the dogs”
Since Iran is the area in which the 6th Trumpet war in the book of Revelations begins, Democrats can be proud that they allowed the weapons of mass destruction to be made that will destroy 1/3rd of the world and even gave them the money to do it. Good job Obama and Biden.
No….he’ll try to push the blame on Trump and or Repubs and the Repubs will let him get away with it as usual.
If Iran launches nukes at anyone, the blood will be on Biden’s hands and his only.
Our elected officials no longer run, manage, or control our local, state, of federal government. We have become a society that is controlled by PARTY LEADERSHIP and bureaucratic DEMIGODS. We have politicians that have never held a real job. The only job they have ever held is feeding in the public trough. Our TWO (2) party system is now corrupt and the only way we can correct it is with TERM LIMITS.
Thanks to Joe Biden and John Kerry, the company that says it wants to destroy America and israel with have Nuclear weapons. Don’t know about you but these
corrupt democrats have to be voted out forever, Israel will not allow Iran to have that power over the destruction of their people. Biden has failed America in his every effort to govern just one stupid leader that the world laughs at.
Begging hasn’t helped him and is not going to help him. These people don’t understand anything but action and he doesn’t have it in him.
I’m sure somehow it will be President Trump’s fault.
Lying Corrupt Quid Pro KING Joe, the dictator in charge, has an Iranian Policy? America isn’t even negotiating with Iran. Corrupt Quid Pro is letting the Russians do America’s bidding. Since the last Iranian Policy, from the Fraudulent Nuke deal from the Obama Administration, Iran has been working on a nuke all along, they never stopped. Whether the U.S. or Israel like it or not, Iran is going to get their nuke. If the U.S. and it’s allies couldn’t stop the little fat man from N. Korea from getting a nuke, what makes anyone think the U.S. is going to stop Iran. Corrupt Quid Pro will sell out Israel and the U.S. for a fraudulent nuke deal, and if one doesn’t think so, go ask corrupt Quid Pro why he is delaying the sale of flying tankers for Israel.