Who Allowed Iran’s Foreign Minister To Visit New York and Deliver Threats at the United Nations?

It turns out that President Biden’s policy on Iran is failing to catch up with his rhetoric.

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The Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, speaks at the UN General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on October 26, 2023. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

As the Islamic Republic of Iran has been amping up its aggression against Israeli targets and American troops, the Biden administration allowed Tehran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, to visit New York and deliver threats, vowing Thursday to escalate the Mideast war. 

President Biden, in a slight toughening of his Iran policies, now claims that he has delivered a strong message to Tehran: “My warning to the Ayatollah was that if they continue to move against those troops, we will respond, and he should be prepared,” he said Wednesday. 

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