Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked all the right questions Monday as Iran launched an unprecedented attack on Israel.
Last Friday, Biden said he expected Iran to attack Israel. and issued a warning, “Don’t do it.” But the principle of “don’t do it” didn’t fail. The next day, Iran launched hundreds of projectiles, including drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, toward Israel. Fortunately, the United States and its allies in the Middle East intercepted nearly all of the projectiles, resulting in minimal damage and few deaths or injuries.
At a White House press briefing, Doocy questioned Kirby about Biden’s next steps, noting that the “thou shalt not” principle was a failure.
“Has President Biden ever considered that toughening his public stance on Iran means more than just words?” Doocy asked. “Because he said, ‘Don’t do it,’ and they did it. So what are you going to do?”
But Kirby declined to give a direct answer, instead focusing on the level of success of the attack.
“Yes, they fired an unprecedented amount of ammunition, but Peter, how much success did they have? Nothing. Zero,” Kirby said. “It was an embarrassing failure for both the supreme leader and the country.” [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]. ”
Emphasizing that the attacks are not successful ignores the larger problem. The United States is supposed to be a great power in the world, but Iran clearly has no fear of President Biden.
Naturally, Doocy asked Kirby about the Biden administration. Decision to unfreeze billions of dollars in Iranian funds last year.
“It turns out that the Iranians won’t heed President Biden’s public warnings. Do you have any regrets about unfreezing the dollar to Iranian leaders?” Doocy followed up. “They’re going to say it’s for humanitarian purposes, but doesn’t that free up money for other things? Where are they going to get the money to fire an unprecedented number of bullets into Israel?”
It turns out that Doocy is good at predicting answers.
Instead of providing a substantive answer to this question, Kirby said the funds “can only be used for humanitarian purposes” and insisted that the United States closely monitors the funds.
Perhaps that’s true. But Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi confirmed last year that his government would spend the $6 billion as it wished.
“This money belongs to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and of course we will decide and the Islamic Republic of Iran will decide to spend the money where it is needed,” he said. .
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