All the articles I’ve read say “Biden” as if he’s the one calling the shots. I doubt that, even if he’s involved, that his comments hold any weight. He was signing EO’s and said, “I don’t know what the Hell I’m signing.”. Harris said, “Sing it anyway.”. And, he did. So, who is bombing Syria? Who is negotiating with Iran? Who really canceled the pipeline? We probably won’t know for fifty years.
In Iran and the Middle East, when Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, emerges in public, people say he only speaks evil and issues threats. On Monday, February 22, after Iran and the IAEA reached a temporary agreement about nuclear surveillance, Khamenei announced that he would increase uranium enrichment to 60%. At his command, the IRGC ordered the armed Houthis to attach the Yemeni city of Marib, threatening the densely populated city. Iraqi armed groups loyal to IRGC attacked the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and targeted a U.S. military base in Balad in central Iraq, injuring several civilians.
A glance at developments in the six weeks since Biden's handlers took office shows that Iran is testing the puppeteers in the new White House. Khamenei and the IRGC seem to have concluded that the new president has dementia and is more worried about pudding pops and not soiling his adult diaper, in stark contrast to Trump. Neither Biden's handlers nor official Washington has spoken about Iran's aggression and both the administration and the media downplayed, and denied responsibility for, the recent targeted strike in Syria.
What Biden's puppeteers don't realize is that Khamenei in 2021 is qualitatively different from Khamenei in 2015, when Biden's boss, Obama, was pushing for the Iran deal. When Trump assassinated Qassem Soleimani and started delivering peace in the Middle East, Khamenei's regional imperial dreams suffered a serious blow.