The Biden administration conveys a pathetic weakness for which the physical person of President Biden serves as an apt metaphor. In its current story on administration negotiations with Iran that date back to January, the New York Times reports:
Two Iranian officials, one with the foreign ministry, said that Iran had maintained in the talks that it did not control the activity of the militia [targeting Americans], particularly the Houthis, but that it could use its influence on them to ensure that all attacks would come to a halt if a cease-fire were reached in Gaza — but not before.
Now that is according to Iranian officials, but the Times has no administration official quibbling with this account. Indeed, it seems faithfully to represent the utter contempt with which the mullahs view their benefactors in the Obama administration.
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