{"id":2575588,"date":"2026-03-03T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-administration-enriched-iranian-regime-guy-benson\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:43:42","slug":"obama-administration-enriched-iranian-regime-guy-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-administration-enriched-iranian-regime-guy-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama administration &#8216;enriched&#8217; Iranian regime: Guy Benson"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fobama-administration-enriched-iranian-regime-guy-benson%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=2575588&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>Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson argues that teh Obama management\u2019s Iran policy was naive and ultimately ineffective. He contends that efforts to engage Tehran enriched the regime and failed to deliver on promised reforms or a broader realignment of the Middle East, pointing to Obama\u2019s 2015 claim that Iran would gain access to billions of dollars if it lived up to commitments. Benson asserts that billions were sent to Iran and that the promised reforms did not materialize, calling the Obama-era vision an \u201cabsolute fantasy.\u201d He says the Trump administration ended this delusion through a tougher approach, including U.S.-led strikes against Iran conducted with Israel,despite ongoing casualties and an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >uncertain campaign timeline<\/a>.The article notes Obama has not publicly addressed the strikes as of its reporting.  <\/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><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Obama administration &lsquo;enriched&rsquo; Iranian regime despite &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-cleese-cancels-himself-from-cambridge-uni-union-in-protest-over-blacklisting-of-hitler-mocking-historian\/\" title=\"John Cleese Cancels Himself from Cambridge Uni Union in Protest over Blacklisting of Hitler-Mocking Historian\">evil nature<\/a>&rsquo;: Guy Benson<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2521658\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> senior columnist Guy Benson said Monday the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"339\">Trump administration<\/a> &ldquo;finally&rdquo; ended the &ldquo;delusion&rdquo; of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/obama-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1222\">Obama administration&rsquo;s<\/a> vision for Iran&rsquo;s regime.<\/p>\n<p>The United States&rsquo; strikes against <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iran<\/a>, carried out in collaboration with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"219\">Israel<\/a>, have brought comments by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4460331\/obama-no-position-to-lecture-about-decency\/\">Barack Obama<\/a> in 2015 back to the forefront, in which the then-president said Iran would gain access to $56 billion of its own money if the country &ldquo;lives up to its commitments.&rdquo; Obama also said that &ldquo;even a repressive regime like Iran&rsquo;s&rdquo; can&rsquo;t ignore the expectations of its people, and said analysts expect most of the country&rsquo;s revenue would go toward improving Iran&rsquo;s economy and the lives of its residents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4477971\/trump-still-hit-hard-butler-rally-death-us-conflict-iran-salena-zito\/\">Trump still hit &#8216;hard&#8217; by Butler rally death amid US conflict with Iran: Salena Zito<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4477236\/democrats-trump-iran-mission-joe-concha\/\">Democrats risk looking &#8216;foolish&#8217; if Trump&#8217;s Iran mission is a success: Joe Concha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4474952\/trump-stark-line-democrats-republicans-salena-zito\/\">Trump drew &lsquo;stark line&rsquo; between Democrats and Republicans: Salena Zito<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Benson, however, said there were people &ldquo;back then&rdquo; who argued that Obama&rsquo;s predictions for Iran were &ldquo;fatally naive.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His administration and the president himself, they were obsessed with appeasing or trying to draw the Iranian regime into the global community,&rdquo; Benson said on Fox Business&rsquo;s <em>The Evening Edit<\/em>. They enriched them, they cajoled them, they buttered up to them, they did everything they could to try to thaw those relations and remake the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"102\">Middle East<\/a>, I think, in a way that was always crazy and always doomed because of the evil nature of the regime.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3406580&amp;userid=11311&amp;usertype=user&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=38b0f0c1feb194a7b83ad2076b1cb455\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;They did it anyway. They shipped billions of dollars over there, some of it was sent in pallets of cash literally to the regime, and the promised reforms that we heard there from the president, the prediction that he made, &lsquo;Oh, even a regime like this has to be accountable to its people, they have to follow through and deliver on needs for the population,&rsquo; that has not happened,&rdquo; Benson said.<\/p>\n<p>Benson concluded that &ldquo;every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caitlin-clark-defends-sharing-my-truth-after-saying-she-has-privilege-in-wnba-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Caitlin Clark defends sharing \u2018my truth\u2019 after saying she has \u2018privilege\u2019 in WNBA - Washington Examiner\">single thing&#038;rdquo<\/a>; the Obama administration envisioned for the Iranian regime has proven to be &ldquo;an absolute fantasy,&rdquo; and contended President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4477971\/trump-still-hit-hard-butler-rally-death-us-conflict-iran-salena-zito\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> &ldquo;ended&rdquo; this &ldquo;delusion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/4474529\/trump-epa-biggest-deregulatory-move-in-history\/\"><strong>OPINION: HOW TO SAVE TRUMP EPA&rsquo;S &lsquo;BIGGEST DEREGULATORY MOVE IN HISTORY&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama has yet to address the U.S. strikes on Iran on X as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Trump signaled Monday that the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4477594\/trump-iran-campaign-maga-america-first\/\">U.S. military campaign against Iran<\/a> could stretch &ldquo;four to five weeks.&rdquo; Six <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4476164\/us-service-members-killed-iran-operations\/\">U.S. service members have died<\/a> since the launch of &ldquo;Operation Epic Fury,&rdquo; and Trump said in a weekend video that &ldquo;there will likely be more before it ends.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ends Obama&#8217;s naive Iran policy; regime enriched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2575589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26046796532719-e1772551456862.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[74971,74969,74970,74968],"class_list":["post-2575588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-guybenson","tag-iranianregime","tag-irannucleardeal","tag-obamaadministration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26046796532719-e1772551456862.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575588","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575592,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575588\/revisions\/2575592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}