{"id":2221616,"date":"2024-04-15T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-reporter-white-house-might-want-to-beef-up-iran-policy-beyond-dont\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:23:44","slug":"fox-reporter-white-house-might-want-to-beef-up-iran-policy-beyond-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-reporter-white-house-might-want-to-beef-up-iran-policy-beyond-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News correspondent suggests enhancing White House&#8217;s Iran policy beyond mere restraint"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Ffox-reporter-white-house-might-want-to-beef-up-iran-policy-beyond-dont%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=2221616&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>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-extends-southern-california-stay-at-home-order-for-at-least-another-three-weeks\/\" title=\"Newsom Extends Southern California Stay-at-Home Order For at Least Another Three Weeks\">press briefing<\/a>, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy \u2064urged Security Council spokesman John Kirby to reconsider President Biden&#8217;s Iran\u200c policy beyond the\u2063 simple directive \u2064of &#8220;don\u2019t.&#8221;\u2063 This request followed Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/electoral-college-finalizes-certification-of-votes\/\" title=\"Electoral College finalizes certification of votes\">direct attack<\/a> on Israel in defiance of Biden\u2019s warning. The incident occurred during\u2064 Monday&#8217;s briefing, which was the first after the attack. During a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-worry-about-biden-having-a-senior-moment-during-state-of-the-union\/\" title=\"House Democrats concerned about Biden's potential State of the Union memory lapse\">recent press \u200dbriefing<\/a>, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy\u200c prompted Security Council spokesman \u200bJohn Kirby to \u2063reassess President Biden&#8217;s Iran policy, suggesting\u200b a more\u200d robust approach\u200d than just saying &#8220;don\u2019t.&#8221; This came after Iran&#8217;s \u2063direct attack on Israel \u200din\u200c disregard of Biden\u2019s warning.\u200c The exchange took place in Monday&#8217;s briefing, the first one\u200c post-attack.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed Security Council spokesman John Kirby on President Joe Biden\u2019s Iran policy, suggesting that he might want to take it a step further than simply the word \u201cdon\u2019t\u201d going forward.<\/p>\n<p>At Monday\u2019s press briefing, the first since Iran launched a direct attack on Israel over the weekend, Doocy pointed to the fact that Iran had acted in defiance of Biden\u2019s warning \u2014 \u201cDon\u2019t\u201d \u2014 issued late last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DOOCY TIME: \u201cJohn, has President Biden considered maybe beefing up the public Iran posture to be more than just one word?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WH\u2019s John Kirby: \u201cYou \u2014 you\u2019re referring to, \u2018don&#8217;t\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy: \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby: \u201cAnd so, let&#8217;s \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy: \u201cBecause he said \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby: \u201c\u2014 talk about \u2014\u201d\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KufejLZFnX\">pic.twitter.com\/KufejLZFnX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1779940504504783069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJohn, has President Biden considered maybe beefing up the public Iran posture to be more than just one word?\u201d Doocy asked Kirby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou \u2014 you\u2019re referring to \u2018don\u2019t\u2019?\u201d Kirby clarified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d Doocy replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, let\u2019s \u2014 talk about \u2014\u201d Kirby said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he said \u2018don\u2019t\u2019 and they did it anyway,\u201d Doocy added. \u201cSo now what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s talk about \u2014 what we did. Peter. Let\u2019s talk about \u2018don\u2019t\u2019 and did,\u201d Kirby continued. \u201cLet\u2019s talk about Saturday night. He made it clear that he didn\u2019t want to see escalation in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy interrupted, saying, \u201cAnd yet, there was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEh, let me finish. He added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-investigating-chaplain-who-said-transgender-people-unqualified-to-serve\/\" title=\"Army Investigating Chaplain Who Said Transgender People \u2018Unqualified To Serve\u2019\">military resources<\/a> to the region right after October 7 and then, when we had an inkling that this kind of thing was coming, he added even more military resources to the region, more destroyers that were capable of shooting down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-biden-seeks-diplomacy-to-constrain-iran-nuclear-program\/\" title=\"Psaki: Biden seeks diplomacy to constrain Iran nuclear program\">ballistic missiles<\/a>, fighters \u2014 fighter squadron that was able to shoot down drones and that\u2019s what we did,\u201d Kirby said.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby went on to argue that Iran had \u201cutterly failed\u201d in its attempt to attack Israel, noting that despite the barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles, only a few had made it through Israel\u2019s defenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, they fired an unprecedented amount of munitions, but how much of a success did they have, Peter? None. Zero,\u201d Kirby added. \u201cIt was an embarrassing failure for the Supreme Leader, for the IRGC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News&#8217; Peter Doocy questioned Security Council spokesman John Kirby about President Biden&#8217;s Iran policy during Monday&#8217;s press briefing post Iran&#8217;s attack on Israel. Doocy hinted at the need for a more robust approach than just saying &#8220;don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2221617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/Joe-Biden-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/Joe-Biden-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}