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byFebruary 22, 2021 at 5:00 amTranslations of this item:Arabs are turning to the Biden administration with the frank plea: Your weak approach to Iran's regime is already threatening whatever precarious stability exists in the Middle East. It is already emboldening terrorist groups. Pictured: Members of Iran's Basij militia burn pictures of Joe Biden and Donald Trump in Tehran, Iran on November 28, 2020. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)It is only one month into his term in office, and US President Joe Biden is already facing criticism from Arabs over his administration's soft policy toward Iran.The Arabs say they are worried because Iran sees Biden as a "weak" president, and that is why the mullahs in Tehran and their proxies in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon have increased their terrorist attacks in the Middle East."In Tehran's eyes, Biden is a pushover," Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Ashraq Al-Awsat."It has only been eight weeks since President Joe Biden was sworn into office, but Iran has already tested him on several fronts. First, thousands of the Iran-backed Houthi militia rushed to threaten the densely populated city of Marib in Yemen. Afterwards, Iranian militias targeted Basra and Baghdad, and more recently, Erbil and Iraqi Kurdistan, with dozens of missiles, killing and wounding several individuals in a US facility. Then Lokman Slim, Iran's most prominent and vocal opponent in Beirut, was murdered and his body was found on the sidewalk."Slim, a prominent Lebanese who criticized Hezbollah, was found earlier this month shot dead in a car in southern Lebanon.Al-Rashed pointed out that Iran "does not deny responsibility for all these events that were organized by its affiliated militias in Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon."According to Al-Rashed, all these attacks were "a test of Biden's administration, and so far, we did not see anything from Washington except for verbal condemnation. This is an expected start on both sides; Iranian provocations and American silence."If the Biden administration wants Iran to return to the negotiating table and discuss the nuclear deal and the war in Yemen, the Saudi columnist advised, "then President Biden needs to flex his muscles."Another Saudi columnist, Hella Al-Mashouh, also criticized the Biden administration's soft approach toward Iran. She specifically criticized the Biden administration's recent decision to revoke designation of Yemen's Houthi militia as a terrorist group. The decision reversed actions taken by the former US administration of President Donald Trump regarding the Iran-backed militia.Commenting on the decision, Al-Mashouh :"Today, we are facing an imminent Iranian threat and a lenient American administration policy toward this danger. We will face this Iranian threat over the next four years. The question that arises here: Who benefits from this Iranian terrorism and tampering with the region? Syria is devastated, and Hezbollah is dominating Lebanon, which is collapsing economically, politically and socially. Iraq is being flooded with weapons and militias of Iranian terrorism. The Houthis and Al Qaeda are tampering with a disintegrated and ravaged Yemen. So what next? Who will deal with the head of the snake?"Sayed Zahra, deputy editor of the Gulf newspaper Akhbar Al-Khaleej, predicted that Iran and its proxies would step up their terror attacks in the Middle East in the next few years.Zahra said that the recent escalation of terror attacks by Iran's militias in Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon were aimed at "practicing direct terrorism" against the Biden administration to force it make the concessions Tehran wants from the US. According to Zahra:"The Iranian message to Biden is clear. It wants him to understand that Iran has many terrorist cards and can undermine security and stability in the region and present his administration with major challenges. The Iranian regime, in other words, wants to force the Biden administration to yield to its demands regarding sanctions and the nuclear agreement. The Iranian regime bases its calculations on the basis that Biden is weak with regard to the nuclear file."Zahra pointed out that Iran knows that many Biden administration officials, especially those concerned with the issue of relations with Iran and the nuclear agreement, are the same people who worked in the Obama administration:"Most of these people are sympathetic to Iran in general, and it is not possible for them to engage with it in any form of confrontation. Iran knows that Biden does not have Trump's resolve and strength in dealing with it. Biden, for example, does not dare to take a step like the assassination of Qassem Soleimani. Iran is testing Biden's weakness."Soleimani, commander of Iran's Quds Force, was assassinated in a targeted US drone strike on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad.Iraqi journalist and political analyst Ahmed Al-Adhame that the recent terror attack on a US facility in Iraq "came because of the failed policies of the Biden administration toward Iran." Al-Adhame noted that the US administration gave orders to withdraw the aircraft carrier Nimitiz from the Middle East, a move that further emboldened Iran and its proxies.Arabs are turning to the Biden administration with the frank plea: Your weak approach to the Iranian regime is already threatening whatever precarious stability exists in the Middle East. It is already emboldening terrorist groups. We are begging you: do not back down to Iranian threats.Such messages show that many Arabs share Israel's concern over US and European efforts to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. It is, frankly, the last thing the Arabs want. It will only lead to war and set back the region more years than one would care to count.Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.© 2022 Gatestone Institute. All rights reserved. The articles printed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors or of Gatestone Institute. No part of the Gatestone website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied or modified, without the prior written consent of Gatestone Institute.Get Free Exclusive Gatestone Content:Recent Articles bycammo99 •The death of free speech in the USA might not be as critical as the absence of any speech on critical matters of national security.I have been trying to understand the strong relationship between Kerry and Iran and it has to be about oil but who will most benefit from the world's largest reserve of oil is the question. China is the answer. All the subtle undercurrent about globalism the strong relationship with China means nothing if China does not have an adequate supply of oil. We know the lot on the Hill are more and more anti-Semitic by the day so a nuclear weapon is of no account to them and it wasn't to Obama. But we do know China imports 90 percent of its oil for industry and home use. The bulk of oil in China itself is in the Muslim province and we know what is happening to those people while Apple and Nike to name but a few corporations continue to profit from slave labor, we know Iran has been selling crude and China imports it by tankers. The sudden immediate suspension of Keystone XL pipeline, also a competitor of China for Canadian oil and gas. The death of free speech might not be as critical as the absence of any speech on critical matters of national securityRuben Valdez •Does Biden and his administration understand that Iran is more determined than ever to make a nuclear bomb and put it on a ballistic missile, and more money from U.S. to fund more terrorist operations. The Arab countries are correct, Biden's failed policies will lead to war. Then what? Mass casualties and destruction, an utter catastrophe that bears fruit in due time. Having to learn the hard way and still no lessons learned. Moronic stupidity of the first order. Proceed right over a cliff.shloime •The Iranians see the world as chess, not football, so they are carefully pushing their pawns all over the board. but chess isn't won by pieces captured, or by goals scored - it's won by checkmate.Bull Herman •Very good. It's prophecy unfolding in which Israel will finally put the mullahs into checkmate.Iran and North Korea seem hell bent, so to speak, to use nukes as bully sticks.Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones eh?Stephen Becket •This article is very true. Iran, like all dictatorships only understands strength. Biden's government is mistaken if they think they can 'talk reason' with Iran. By turning their backs on their former allies the catastrophe of Bush's interference in Iraq will be magnified. Unfortunately, while the US has the strength to be the international policeman it doesn't have the diplomatic nouce to play the role as has been shown repeatedly by successive US administrations. How many innocent people will die or have their lives ruined, how much hatred will Biden sow before they realise that the only way to deal with these monsters is to be tough?BwaHa •Why Iran thinks Biden's a weak president...Because he is... Why not state the obvious?shloime •Because it's irrelevant. The Iranians will act on their perception, regardless, as they have been doing.Richard Kronenfeld •One more example of why this is Barack Obama's third term.Harvey L •Well, what did anyone expect after Obama returned to the White House via Biden, it is a weak and pathetic administration a pushover for the drug-running terrorist cartel in Tehran. It's a disgrace that American and Israeli lives will be lost when the real conflict begins. A failed foreign policy by the Muslim Brotherhood-backing Obama.cammo99 •What would a war look like? There must be some idea nations form blocks. With Iran waging a proxy war on Saudi oil production through Houthi tribal people striking from Yemen, shouldn't they already be at war? My point being where is the line in the sand are we waiting on spontaneous combustion? I think Biden's deal as was his predecessor Obama's, just plain stupid. Born from socialist manure collected and piled up over the years and willful pride they can transcend reality.Miriam •It was obvious even before he was elected that Biden is not and would not be a strong leader. Teheran knew this and their hopes of Trump losing came to fruition. The Sunni states knew this and they feared the worst.Trump was no statesman. I often cringed when he spoke. My personal view of how he handled the pandemic was that it was very poor. However, when it came to the Middle East he got it right. He actually managed to do more for the region than any other president. It's farcical that in 2008 Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace prize before he even stepped into the Oval Office and yet the Middle East was in a worse mess by the time his eight years were up.The nuclear deal was a disaster then and it will be even a greater disaster now because Iran has already surpassed its percentages of enrichment to at least 20% that we know of. The one positive in all of this are the new alliances of the Sunni states with Israel. However, should Israel decide to take steps to slow the uranium production down, we can safely say that the EU, the UN and much of the media will condemn Israel for doing what it needs to do. Until then Iran will be laughing all the way to the bank'Terry J Taylor •Also, the Iranian do not consider Biden to be weak. They think he can be bought. The "weak" comments are just cover for what has already started behind the scenes.. the money flows.Terry Taylor •Why is Biden doing this? Follow the money.Russell •The same problems were always cited when the JCPOA was initially being so-called "negotiated" by Kerry/Obama ,and they still exist. The Middle East doesn't want Iran to be the only nation with Nukes and yes, this will cause a Middle East arms race. It may also cause (force) Israel to pre-empt and strike Iran's nuclear sites. So here we are again, back in 2015/2016. Might I say, the Communist/Globalists in the Socialist/Democrat Party and their new President do not want peace in the Middle East or anywhere else for that matter. They have decades or perhaps millenia-old, (i.e. looking back at Nimrod), Anti-God, Anti-Christ, Anti-Israel, Globalist, One World Government Agenda an NWO, that they are committed to. This is why they put America last, are Anti-Semitic, fund terrorists via Iran, and why the current President rationalizes China's genocides, inhumanity, and tyranny as "Cultural differences". None of their actions are rational and that is why Saudi Arabia's pleading for the US Administration not to go back to the insane JCPOA is futile and will fall on deaf ears.Kyriakos Michaelides •Why are you not giving some time so that President Biden will sort out the mess that he left behind both in the US and all over the world.Believe me the world will become a better place with Joe Biden president, than what we had for the last 4 years. "make a decision in the morning and reverse it in the afternoon". Ask all the officials that worked for Trump and left the Trump administration, most of them because they could not put up with him behaviour.Harvey L •So you are one of these people that believes Iran can be trusted not to want hegemony in the ME. 40 years of screaming death to the USA and Israel are just words while openly using their terrorist proxies to spread destruction, Biden's answer is appeasement, the same as Neville Chamberlain in the 1930 with a piece of paper and we all know what happened after that, don't we.Gabor Ujvari •President Trump was the greatest President in our life time. He had the courage and wisdom to stand up for the Free World. We need him back in office in 2024!Kyriakos Michaelides •The problems of the world are not just Iran and the mullahs of Iran. It is a lot of other issues and difficult problems, which the former president considered them as not important. That is the reason the pandemic already killed over half a million people in the US. Hope by 2024 he would have learn how to help the American people to deal with difficult problems of life and death.Gabor Ujvari •Unfortunately the ayatollahs are correct this time. Biden is a weak President. Yes, Biden is a weak President who came in to office with very questionable means. Hence the ayatollahs do not respect him, do not fear him. The world is a much more vulnerable during the weak presidency of the weak President Biden. The answer is Trump 2024!James Lopey •Is Biden a weak or just unduly influenced by ultra left progressives? Both in my opinion. The dilemma in my opinion is that Biden is beholding to Obama and for whatever reason Obama's administration tended to favor Iranian hegemony over Sunni dominance in the region. Obviously Kerry and Biden wishes to pursue the JPOA again. Why? It was a slight when Trump did away with it. I also assert that Obama and Biden (not to mention Kerry) were/are very naïve about Iran's strategic goals and their leadership's hatred for the West and the U.S. The hate-filled Iranian regime lives and breathes via toxic vitriol and rage against the U.S. and its allies. By demonizing the West and the U.S. it can deflect blame for all of its shortcomings. Iran also seeks to be the king of the hill of whatever Caliphate emerges. In regards the U.S. and Israel--obviously they cannot take over the Middle East if Israel and the U.S. is there.Its leaders often proclaim their intended dominance within the Islamic Ummah.Get Free Exclusive Gatestone Content:by Majid Rafizadehby Majid Rafizadehby Majid Rafizadehby Peter Schweizerby Raymond Ibrahimby Guy Millièreby Khaled Abu Toamehby Peter Schweizerby Raymond Ibrahimby Amir Taheriby Majid Rafizadehby Guy MillièreTop IssuesThis website uses cookies to provide you with better services. To find out more, please review our .OK

byFebruary 22, 2021 at 5:00 amTranslations of this item:Arabs are turning to the Biden administration with the frank plea: Your weak approach to Iran's regime is already threatening whatever precarious stability exists in the Middle East. It is already emboldening terrorist groups. Pictured: Members of Iran's Basij militia burn pictures of Joe Biden and Donald Trump in Tehran, Iran on November 28, 2020. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)It is only one month into his term in office, and US President Joe Biden is already facing criticism from Arabs over his administration's soft...

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