I remember when Obama picked Biden for his “vast foreign policy experience.” I also remember when all the Leftists in the news media said Biden would bring sanity back the foreign policy of the United States. Here’s the latest example of how bad it is
The Biden administration on Monday expressed condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi and several Iranian regime officials were killed in a helicopter crash in northern Iran over the weekend. Raisi, known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” oversaw aggressive foreign policies that increased tensions with the West and authoritarian domestic policies to repress and abuse the Iranian population, whom he was deeply unpopular with.
“The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement on Monday. “As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
“We regret any loss of life. We don’t want to see anyone die in a helicopter crash,” Miller told reporters on Monday.
Raisi was elected to the presidency in 2021 but had spent decades serving in various roles in the Iranian regime. As a prosecutor in 1988, Raisi was on a “death commission” panel responsible for ordering the execution of thousands of Iranian political prisoners, earning him the “Butcher” nickname. Raisi boasted of his role in executing the prisoners and called it “one of the proud achievements” of the Iranian regime, according to Amnesty International.
The article itself goes into much more detail of how bad Raisi was. For one thing, Iran is still the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism. How about all the morality police assaulting and even killing women for not wearing a hijab? Executing gays? Raisi was simply not a good person, and the US should not be officially expressing condolences for his death. Would the Biden admin do this if Putin died? How about Kim Jong Un?
Just imagine if it was the Trump State Department making this official proclamation: the Credentialed Media would be destroying him. Bored Panda has a long thread on women celebrating Raisi’s death, which, unfortunately, puts the women on the radar of Iran’s government, which has a tendency to do bad things to women. Further, Iranian dissidents around the world celebrated his death. But
(NY Post) But in the medium term, it (sadly) seems unlikely to change anything significantly.
Iran is still committed to its project of regional hegemony, a project far bigger than Raisi.
The Islamic Republic has scored a number of big wins on that front through proxies in recent months: the Houthi offensive against Red Sea shipping; Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities; the gathering storm of an Israel-Hezbollah war.
Nothing will change. Iran leaders will simply appoint another leader who will continue the same path as Iran has been traveling since their revolution in 1979. I have to wonder if it would have made a positive difference if Obama, with Biden as his VP, had completely backed the Iranian Green uprising, instead of blowing it off.
Meanwhile, Eli Copter enters the discussion
Just when you thought people can’t get any dumber… They go ahead and surprise you.
This is a real thing that happened.
Someone on X made a joke that the Mossad took out the Iranian president and the agent was named Eli Copter. Palestinian telegram channels repeated it as a… pic.twitter.com/XLeyUbYDkx
— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) May 20, 2024
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