After Biden fails to mention Iran during SOTU, lawmakers push measure supporting Iranian protesters

After Biden fails to mention Iran during SOTU, lawmakers push measure supporting Iranian protesters


President Joe Biden didn’t reference Iran once in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, prompting outcry from analysts who warned that the Iranian regime is too great a threat not to mention.

“To omit any reference to the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism that’s advancing its nuclear program and exporting drones to the Russians is a gross oversight” by the White House, said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Iran officially revealed the first-of-its-kind underground airbase dubbed “Eagle 44,” capable of housing fighter jets and long-range cruise missiles, several hours before Biden’s speech. The next day, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, displayed an apparent ballistic…

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