Joe Biden demanded the president provide evidence showing the drone strike that took out a top Iranian military official truly was aimed at preventing what the administration has insisted was an “imminent threat”
Joe Biden on Tuesday ripped into President Donald Trump’s handling of the growing crisis with Iran, demanding the president provide evidence showing the drone strike that took out a top Iranian military official truly was aimed at preventing what the administration has insisted was an “imminent threat.”
In the days since, Iran has vowed revenge while backing away from its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal. The Iraqi Parliament has voted to expel U.S. troops from the country, which Biden in his speech incorrectly referred to as Iran, and U.S. officials have been forced to clean upTrump has vowed to respond forcefully to any retaliation from Iran, while threatening sanctions against Iraq should it move to boot American troops.
While the former vice president was quick to point out that “I have no illusions about Iran” or its brutal leadership and its role in vast instability in the region, “there's a smart way to counter Iran and a self-defeating way,” he said, labeling Trump’s approach “demonstrably the latter.” Trump’s “constant mistakes,” Biden said, have left the U.S. with a “severely limited slate of options for how to move forward — and most of those options are now bad.”
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