‘The Administration Has Lost the Plot on the Middle East’: Continetti on U.S. Policy and Iranian Threats

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CONTINETTI: “Bret, the administration policy has been all over the map. I mean, the clips that we showed at the beginning of the segment had administration officials declaring solidarity with Israel after October 7th. Whereas just a week ago, President Biden was now calling on Israel for a unilateral ceasefire and to stop the offensive in Gaza and not go into the last Hamas redoubt of Rafah. For weeks the administration rhetoric has been more focused on Israeli malfeasance than what Hamas has been doing or what Iran has been doing. And now suddenly they turn around and wonder why Iran feels emboldened to retaliate for this strike against one of their terrorist commanders that was hiding out in Syria. The administration has lost the plot on the Middle East. They have to recognize that the real threat here is Iran. And we have a common threat between Israel and the United States, which is Iran, and it’s time we stopped treating the Iranians like they are some kind of off-the-board piece that doesn’t matter. Maximum pressure. Sanctions, and hit their proxies hard and even, as Trump did, and as the Israelis did, go after Iranian assets directly.”