{"id":530719,"date":"2021-05-20T18:21:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=530719"},"modified":"2021-05-20T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:21:11","slug":"psaki-acknowledges-iran-are-bad-actors-doesnt-condemn-anti-israel-remarks-from-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-acknowledges-iran-are-bad-actors-doesnt-condemn-anti-israel-remarks-from-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Acknowledges Iran \u2018Are Bad Actors,\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Condemn Anti-Israel Remarks From Democrats"},"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%2Fpsaki-acknowledges-iran-are-bad-actors-doesnt-condemn-anti-israel-remarks-from-democrats%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=530719&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JP1-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted on Thursday that the Biden administration views Iran as \u201cbad actors,\u201d even as they try to get them to reenter the Iran nuclear deal. Psaki also did not condemn anti-Israel remarks made by notable Democrats when pressed on the issue by a reporter.<\/p>\n<p>The first interaction that Psaki had on the issue came when a reporter asked if Biden would ever support Democrats who were trying to block the administration from selling weapons to Israel:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><i>REPORTER: And then quickly on Israel, progressives in the House and Senate are hoping to block $735 million worth of weapons to Israel. Would the president ever go along with that?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>PSAKI: Well, let me first say that the State Department overseas arms sales and any confirmation of those specific details or notifications that may have gone to Congress. So I would let them speak to that specific proposal you\u2019re asking about. I will say that we\u2019ve had a long, abiding security and strategic relationship with Israel, that has been certainly the case for decades.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1711229946524\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden&#8217;s Press Secretary Jen Psaki refuses to say if Biden opposes the House Democrats&#8217; effort to block aid to Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jvblv05oVG\">pic.twitter.com\/jvblv05oVG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1395434724701659136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later in the press conference, Psaki addressed Iran when asked by a reporter about statements being made by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><em>REPORTER: [I know] that you touched on the Iran nuclear deal, but there\u2019s reporting earlier that the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard said that the rocket attacks from Palestine hitting Israel was a sign of \u201ca new Palestine.\u201d I\u2019m wondering if that type of rhetoric coming out of Iran has any effect on the president\u2019s eagerness to rejoin the treaty, the Iran nuclear agreement, and, sort of, if there is any interplay between those two spheres.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: I think it\u2019s important to be very clear. Iran, they are bad actors, and they\u2019re bad actors in the region. And that is very clear. That is our position. However, we believe, the president believes, that it is in the best interest of the United States and in the best interest of countries in the region to have more visibility into Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities, and to prevent them from acquiring a nuclear weapon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4311926605505\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden&#8217;s Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that Biden is continuing talks with Iran despite their support for Hamas\u2019 terrorist attacks against Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hWr8iEVJiq\">pic.twitter.com\/hWr8iEVJiq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1395449496260251651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Toward the end of the press conference, Psaki was pressed about anti-Israel remarks made by Democrats and she refused to denounce the remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p><em>REPORTER: I just wanted to go back to Israel really quick. So yesterday, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez accused Israel of using American weapons to target media outlets, schools, hospitals, other sites. The other day, Congresswoman Omar called the Israeli prime minister an ethno-nationalist. I know you\u2019ve talked about the White House\u2019s message to Democrats, but does the president specifically denounced these comments?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PASKI: I think we have a responsibility here to speak about this as the issue that it is, which is a conflict that is killing people in a region, and our efforts to bring that to an end. The president doesn\u2019t see this through the prism of domestic politics. He sees this through the prism of what role the United States can play as a leader in the global community to engage in quiet, intensive diplomacy, to bring an end to the suffering and the tragedy on the ground.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0116279069767\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden&#8217;s Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to condemn anti-Israel rhetoric from Democrat House members <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tGdt46Xb9o\">pic.twitter.com\/tGdt46Xb9o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1395453566744207367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted on Thursday that the Biden administration views Iran as \u201cbad actors,\u201d even as they try to get them to reenter the Iran nuclear &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312525,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JP1-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Acknowledges Iran \u2018Are Bad Actors,\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Condemn Anti-Israel Remarks From Democrats","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JP1-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Acknowledges Iran \u2018Are Bad Actors,\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Condemn Anti-Israel Remarks From Democrats","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530719","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}