White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby made a case that President Joe Biden has been “tough” on Iran.
Kirby appeared on Fox News Sunday the day after Iran launched an attack against Israel. Several of the missiles were shot down. However, Kirby addressed concerns that this attack came after sanctions against Iran that Donald Trump had enforced were lifted.
“It’s hard to look at what President Biden has done with respect to Iran and say that he hasn’t been tough on Iran and that we haven’t put pressure on them. We have an additional 500 sanctions, additional resources in the region” Kirby said before host Martha MacCallum interrupted.
“But also we’re also leaving sanctions,” MacCallum pointed out.
“And let’s take a look at that ballistic missile; Okay so they launched more than a hundred ballistic missiles, and how many got through?” Kirby said. “The reason they didn’t get through is because President Biden made sure we pre-positioned the forces in the region to help Israel shoot them down, so this vaunted ballistic missile program didn’t turn out to be so vaunted after all.”
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Since the launch, the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudia Arabia, and Jordan assisted in shooting down the drones.
Kirby condemned the attack in a statement soon afterward.
