{"id":1800214,"date":"2023-01-09T15:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1800214"},"modified":"2023-01-09T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:49:41","slug":"killing-terrorists-hmmm-biden-state-dept-tongue-tied-about-support-for-soleimani-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/killing-terrorists-hmmm-biden-state-dept-tongue-tied-about-support-for-soleimani-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Terrorists? Hmmm. Biden State Dept Tongue-Tied About Support for Soleimani Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkilling-terrorists-hmmm-biden-state-dept-tongue-tied-about-support-for-soleimani-assassination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1800214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Three years after his death, anti-regime protesters tear pictures of notorious terrorist<\/p>\n<p>    Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran&#8217;s Quds Force \/ Twitter screenshot   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 January 9, 2023 3:33 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Three years after the elimination of one of the world&#8217;s most notorious terrorists, President Joe Biden&#8217;s State Department is tongue-tied when it comes to articulating its support for President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to take out Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p>Amid protests across Iran that have seen anti-regime demonstrators tear apart pictures of Soleimani, the State Department declined to comment on\u00a0those\u00a0acts of rebellion or say\u00a0whether\u00a0it stands by the U.S. military operation that killed Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re not going to rehash history,&#8221; a State Department spokesman told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> in response to questions about whether it believes the January 2020 drone strike on Soleimani made America safer. When asked if it has comment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bJr-zywFJq8\">videos<\/a> showing Iranian protesters burning pictures of Soleimani, the spokesman said, &#8220;We cannot comment on every act of protest taking place inside Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department\u2019s unwillingness to comment on the Soleimani operation drew criticism from Iranian-American activist groups and congressional foreign policy leaders who have worked to isolate the hardline regime. As the protests stretch into their fourth month, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202212190006\">has<\/a> negotiations over a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear accord on life support. U.S. Iran envoy Robert Malley\u2014who is under <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-iran-envoy-on-ropes-after-pro-regime-comments\/\">pressure<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/lawmakers-press-for-iran-envoy-to-be-axed-nuclear-negotiations-halted\/\">resign<\/a> his post\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202212190006\">said<\/a> late last year that he is &#8220;keeping the door open for a return to diplomacy,&#8221; even as the Iranian regime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/three-more-mahsa-amini-protesters-sentenced-to-death-in-iran-judiciary-says\/\">murders<\/a> and imprisons protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Leib, executive director of Iranian Americans for Liberty, an advocacy group working to support democracy in Iran, said the Biden administration should embrace the Soleimani assassination\u2014just as Iranian dissidents are risking their lives to do so across the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden State Department continues to project weaknesses on the world stage regarding the Islamic Republic while the entire department echoes the same talking points from the feckless Robert Malley,&#8221; Leib told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;When asked a simple question about Soleimani, they can&#8217;t muster up the courage to applaud the former administration for their actions to eliminate Soleimani and to weaken Tehran through their maximum pressure [and] maximum sanctions campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/senate-passes-cruz-amendment-on-successful-soleimani-mission\">2020 resolution<\/a> honoring the American service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after the elimination of one of the world&#8217;s most notorious terrorists, President Joe Biden&#8217;s State Department is tongue tied when it comes to articulating its support for President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to take out Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThe post Killing Terrorists? Hmmm. 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