How Biden's Israel policy led us to the brink of war with Iran

On Tuesday, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to the latter’s recent assassinations of leaders of the Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah and Hamas. 

There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and whether there were any deaths. But Israel is now considering a counterattack that could propel it into an all-out war with Iran, with the US in tow. 

For years, Iran has been trying to avoid such a war. That’s why it signed the 2015 nuclear deal with the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and the EU. 

Former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew his country from the deal in 2018, and despite President Joe Biden’s much-touted differences with Trump, he failed to restore American compliance. 

Instead, he tried to use Trump’s violation of the treaty as leverage to demand further concessions from Iran. This served only to aggravate the schism between the US and Iran, which have had no diplomatic relations since 1980.

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