President Joe Biden is “deliberately” sabotaging any element of surprise in response plans to the recent attacks by Iranian-backed militias that killed three U.S. soldiers, calling for both According to Rep. Mike Walz (R-Fla.), he is calling for a “robust military response” and a “complete policy” to return to former President Donald Trump’s “maximum” economic pressure on the Iranian regime. “Transformation.”
Walz, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Armed Services Committee, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Friday that three U.S. soldiers were killed and 25 others were injured. He referred to recent announcements by the U.S. military. Drone attack in Jordan.
“Three U.S. service members were killed and dozens were injured,” he said, referring to Biden’s announcement of a decision regarding the response to the airstrike. “We’re telegraphing the exact details. We’re eliminating any element of surprise.” Tuesday also included his reaffirmation that he was not seeking “a broader war in the Middle East.”
Telling Iran to stop is not a strategy.
Here’s what we should do:
1. Attack Revolutionary Guard operatives, not just agents.
2. Dry Iran’s cash flow and impose sanctions!
3. The next time Iranians stand up and demand change, don’t stay silent. pic.twitter.com/MwciiuBKWP— Congressman Mike Walz (@michaelgwaltz) January 30, 2024
A Florida congressman who served as a special forces commander in Afghanistan expressed concern that Biden “rather than punish the Iranian regime is trying to reinstate it with senseless attacks targeting warehouses.”
According to Walz, a National Guard colonel, former White House and Pentagon policy advisor, and the first Green Beret elected to Congress, “this not only requires a strong military response; A complete policy shift is also needed.” Returning to Trump’s maximum pressure on Iran’s economy. ”
Please remember. When Iranian-backed terrorists tried to kill Americans, President Trump cut off the snake’s head and the attacks stopped.
Biden’s weak leadership is costing American lives and empowering the Iranian regime.
— Congressman Mike Walz (@michaelgwaltz) January 28, 2024
In 2022,Former US Vice President Mike Pence accused The Biden administration has responded to the Trump administration’s efforts to alienate the Iranian regime, including scrapping the Iran nuclear deal and imposing severe sanctions on the theocratic Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which aims to protect the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He threatened to “explain all developments”. .
The Trump administration also “strongly enforced these sanctions to reduce Iranian oil exports to near zero during his administration and deny the regime a major source of revenue,” he noted.
This issue is raised on the Republican side. condemnation Biden condemned the Iranian-linked drone strike in Jordan that killed three US soldiers, calling it the president’s continued “weakness” against the dictatorship, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. He pointed out the strategy of appeasement.
The attack on a military base in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border was the first U.S. military casualty in a series of attacks on U.S. troops by Iranian-backed groups since the Israeli-Hamas conflict began in October.
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After a huge Taliban celebration marking the second anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, Walz accused He accused the Biden administration of capitulating to “terrorists” and taking no responsibility for the ensuing disaster.
In November, Biden called for “reducing hunger” and blamed his “failed Iran policy” for the current conflict in Gaza. [Tehran] “We will reduce the money being used to fund terrorism,” he said, warning that terrorism on American soil “is only a matter of time as long as this border remains wide open.”
He also claimed that every time Biden lectures Israel, it shows Hamas propaganda “is working.”
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @Joshua Klein.
