Ben Shapiro

Obama unfroze sanctions and billions of dollars of Iranian assets, including a $1.7 billion payment tied to an old arms dispute, delivered literally as pallets of cash on unmarked cargo planes into Tehran in the dead of night.

Well, that doesn't take a super genius to predict what Iran would do next.

Instead of building hospitals, reforming its economy, moderating, the Islamic Republic poured cash into Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria, the Houthis in Yemen, and a gigantic ballistic missile program.

all of which are currently threatening millions of people across the Middle East today.

And then President Donald Trump was elected.

President Trump took one look at the JCPOA and called it what it was, the worst deal in the history of deals.

He withdrew from the agreement.

He immediately rectified American foreign policy in the Middle East with a maximum pressure campaign of sanctions on Iran's oil exports.

crippling their economy.

In early 2020, President Trump did what no previous president was willing to do.

He ordered a drone strike at Baghdad Airport and killed IRGC General Qasem Soleimani.

Remember, Soleimani was the architect of Iran's external terror machine and was personally responsible for countless Americans maimed and murdered.

Iran's response was kind of telling.

They launched a small missile barrage at U.S.

forces in Iraq, but they gave us warning because they didn't actually want to hit anybody.

Because if they did, then we might have to end the regime.

Once again, when faced with a tough president with the will to use force, the regime rattles its sabers and then it retreats.

Deterrence works.

Peace through strength works.

The Biden administration was next.