Multiple Republican leaders issued statements and posted to social media Saturday after Iran fired off a barrage of drones and possibly missiles against Israel. They demanded that President Biden “stand firm” behind our ally and “stop coddling” the repressive Iranian regime.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was one of the strongest voices, and he placed the blame squarely on Biden’s appeasement of Iran:
Iran has encircled Israel and has been attacking our Israeli allies from almost every front for months. They’ve launched attacks from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, the West Bank, Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon and of course the Hamas controlled -Gaza Strip. Now they have escalated by launching attacks directly from the Iranian territory.
These attacks are enabled and financed by deliberately policy choices made by Joe Biden and Biden officials, who’ve allowed roughly 100 billion to flow to Iran…
