Where’s Iran? While Washington Focuses on Blaming Israel for Mideast Woes, It Practically Ignores the Real Problem, Tehran

Biden fails to connect the dots between the mullahs, the Gaza war, the likely upcoming Israeli defensive war against Hezbollah, and the likelihood of an all-out war that could ignite the entire Misdeast and force Americans to wage battle.

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President Biden delivers his State of the Union speech at the Capitol, February 7, 2023. AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file

As with the Waldo character, one needs to constantly ask where Iran is on America’s radar screen. While every step of Israel’s war on Hamas is analyzed, dissected, second-guessed, and red-lined, discussions about the root cause of all the Mideast upheaval — Tehran — are fast to disappear.     

President Biden dedicated 622 words to the Gaza war in his State of the Union speech last week. The 38-word paragraph he allotted to Iran was about one of its terrorist proxies, the Houthis. A formerly hot topic, the Islamic Republic’s race to build nuclear weapons, has evaporated into thin air even as the international agency that inspects it warns about its fast advancement. Tehran’s abuses at home went unmentioned in Mr. Biden’s address, as did direct and proxy Iranian attacks on American troops.   

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