Former U.S. Senator: Trump "approaches Middle East issues correctly"

[New Sancai Compilation First] Former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman said on February 4 that the Biden administration’s Middle East policy is based on the “wrong belief that Iran can be trusted,” while former President Donald Trump was "absolutely right about the Middle East."

Lieberman said President Joe Biden's policy is "you can deal with Iran, or you can destroy them through diplomacy." However, one can look at Iran's record since the 1979 Khomeini revolution to get a better understanding and see that "they simply cannot be trusted."

"Not only that, but they are vehemently anti-American and anti-our allies in the Middle East, particularly Israel and our closest Arab states," Lieberman said. "The president, the secretary of state and others have been saying we don't want to escalate this into Regional conflict. But the reality is that Iran has escalated it into a regional conflict."

Lieberman, on the other hand, said that he disagrees with Trump on many things, but he does believe that Trump is right on the Middle East issue "because he (Trump) treats our allies as our allies." , treat our enemies as enemies... Our allies are Israel and the Arab countries, and our enemy is Iran."

Trump also withdrew the United States from the "abhorrent" Iran nuclear deal reached between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan under the leadership of his son-in-law Jared Kushner the Abraham Accords.

Lieberman, meanwhile, said U.S. airstrikes would not deter terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah as independent entities because they are "part of the Iranian military."

"They are trained by Iran and they will do whatever Iran tells them to do," Lieberman said, adding that Biden was slow to respond to the attack that killed three U.S. soldiers.

"It's not going to get better unless we attack the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran," Lieberman said. "That's where the central command is, and if we scare them and hurt them, everything in the Middle East will be better and more... Peace."

Lieberman on Sunday also dismissed the theory that former President Barack Obama supported Biden's policy on Iran, but he did see "continuity" in "misguided and dangerous Obama policy toward Iran."

Lieberman said that under Biden's policies, there would be no security for U.S. troops stationed in the region or in Israel unless the administration gets tough on Iran militarily and economically.

"They sold more oil under President Biden than they did under President Trump," he said. "He [Trump] applied maximum economic pressure, and that's the only thing they would respond to - and use military force against them. They are bullies. Sometimes when you fight a bully, the bully backs down, and we do not have."

(Compiled by: Wang Jimin)

(Editor: Jiang Qiming)

(Source of the article: Compiled and published by New Sancai)