Why won’t Joe Biden stand up to Iran?

This week marks two years since Iranian terror mastermind Major General Qassem Soleimani was torn apart by a Reaper drone missile in Baghdad, on the orders of Donald Trump. The Iranian regime has marked the anniversary with a flurry of antagonism throughout the region.

On Monday, a coalition base outside Iraq’s main airport was attacked by two drones armed with missiles with the words ‘Soleimani’s revenge’ on them. Both were safely shot down. That same day, two Israeli newspaper websites, the Jerusalem Post and Maariv, were hacked and made to display a picture of a missile being launched from Soleimani’s ring at Israel’s nuclear reactor. These provocations were preceded by a letter to the UN General Assembly on Saturday, in which Iran’s presidential office demanded a resolution against the United States.

And in a furious tirade delivered at Tehran’s largest mosque, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi called for ‘justice and retribution’ against Trump, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and ‘other criminals’.