Iran is warring on the United States in the Red Sea and elsewhere. Will President Biden do anything?
No, there’s been no open declaration of this war.
But the Islamic Republic and its proxies — the self-dubbed “Axis of Resistance” — have been moving against US assets and interests with deepening intensity.
Look at the attacks from Yemen’s Houthis on commercial traffic in the Red Sea.
These Nazi-inspired (really; they use the Nazi salute) servants of Tehran have launched at least 100 attacks against 14 different ships just over the past month.
The group claims it’s striking ships heading to Israel, but that’s an obvious lie: Its most recent attack targeted a container ship heading from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan.
No, the attacks aim to close the Red Sea to commercial traffic — in other words, to shore up yet more fully Iran’s accelerating campaign for regional hegemony.
That’s the case with Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities, a Tehran-blessed operation.
With Iran’s nuclear buildout, ramping up enrichment and tripling its uranium production.
With attacks on US targets from jihadist militias in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.
Biden’s done his level best to ignore it all, refusing to go on the offensive against our enemies.
No shock there: He’s as much of an Iran appeaser as his old boss Barack Obama, begging the mad mullahs to come back into a nuke deal and offering them billions in payoffs.
Indeed, Biden’s refusal to even see Iran’s drive to dominate the region echoes Obama’s identical blindness.
Mind you, Tehran’s quest for hegemony predates Obama: It is central to the regime’s self-justification; expanding the sway of the Islamic Republic is as “necessary” as spreading Communism worldwide was for the Soviets.
But it’s due to Obama and now Biden that Iran is closer than ever to that regional domination.
All while brutally humiliating the United States again and again, thanks to Biden’s refusal to meaningfully retaliate.
Past a certain point, effective retaliation may become impossible.
America — and her allies — should pray Biden wakes up before then.
But they must prepare for the worst, given his ugly record so far.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
