'...Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Iran and its regional proxies will not back down from Israel ...Biden added: "There is nothing going to happen today." Asked later if he was urging Israel not to attack Iran's oil installations, Biden said he would not negotiate in public.'
'...When Asia expert Kurt Campbell started his new job in February as the deputy secretary of state, he began a series of listening sessions with staff members.
"It was overwhelmingly calls, including from people I respect, [that] we need to do more to sanction Israel, we need to do more to punish Israel, we need to be more seriously considering ways in which we can sanction them, condition aid, cut off aid, reduce weapons flows," one foreign service officer with two decades of Middle East experience told the Insider. "There were people whose issues don't have anything to do with the conflict … who were making the case for why we need to do more to bash Israel."
Since Hamas' unprovoked attack on Israel on Oct. 7...the alleged "failure of leadership" at the State Department, the Washington Examiner reported that at least three recent members of an Iran-controlled influence network visited the Biden White House 10 times since 2022.'
'...Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Thursday refused to condemn “death to America” chants that featured prominently at a rally in the district she represents. Last week, at an anti-Israel demonstration in Dearborn, Michigan, local activist Tarek Bazzi led a crowd in chants of “death to America” and “death to Israel,” saying the Jewish state “does not deserve to exist” and celebrating former Iranian ayatollah Ruhollah Khome...'
