Wednesday 24 June 2026
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From Maximum Pressure to Maximum Deference

Biden’s appeasement of Iran has let the regime become more brazen.
From Maximum Pressure to Maximum Deference

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken this week vowed a “collective response” to Iran’s drone attack against an Israeli-operated tanker off the coast of Oman that left one British and one Romanian citizen dead. But President Joe Biden and his administration would do better to pause for a moment of collective self-examination.

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Richard Goldberg is a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously served as the White House National Security Council’s director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction.

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