Democrat President Joe Biden allowed United Nations sanctions on Iranian missile procurement to expire five months before Iran launched an unprecedented attack on Israel over the weekend.
The Islamic Republic of Iran fired more than 300 missiles at Israel during the attack.
The assault was in retaliation for a strike on its embassy in Syria last week that killed seven IRGC terrorists.
Iran claims Israel was behind the attack but the Jewish state has not claimed responsibility.
The missile sanctions against Iran expired on October 18, 2023.
The period gave Iran five months to expand its drone and missile development before the attack.
The expiration date came from the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal.
the deal was entered into by Biden’s Democrat predecessor Barack Obama.
Biden re-entered the U.S. into the controversial deal after President Donald Trump withdrew from it during his presidency.
The expiration was supposed to be contingent on Iran following the terms of the deal, but it has not even pretended to do so.
As recently as November, Iran threw International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors out and didn’t let them inspect its enrichment of uranium.
There have been repeated reports from the IAEA that Iran has been