America’s new terrorist allies: ‘The mother of all disasters’

 

If the Biden administration believes that the Houthis and the IRGC are not terrorist organizations, then why not also remove Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from the blacklist?

So writes Khaled Abu Toameh, The Gatestone Institute

Unlike the Biden administration, many Arabs do not distinguish between one terrorist group and another.

That is why news about the possibility that the Biden administration is considering removing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the terrorism blacklist has been received by many Arabs with disbelief and shock.

The Arabs hold the mullahs and the IRGC responsible for various war crimes and atrocities against several countries and people around the world.

Just last week, the IRGC claimed credit for a missile attack on an alleged “Zionist base” in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq. Days later, the IRGC issued a threat to launch missiles at the Gulf states.

The Gulf states, in particular Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are already under attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen. The Biden administration removed the Houthis from the list of foreign terrorist organizations and has since refused to reclassify it as a terrorist organization, despite the missile and drone attacks on Washington’s Arab allies and friends as recently as this week.

‘A real American absurdity’

Instead of listening to its Arab allies, the Biden administration is now reportedly studying the possibility of removing Iran’s IRGC — an even more dangerous organization — from the list of foreign terrorists.

The news has come as a shock to the Arabs, especially those in the Gulf who say that the appeasement policies of the Biden administration towards Iran pose a real threat to security and stability in the Middle East.

US credibility plummeting in Arab world

Iraqi social media user Kirar Al-Atiyya added his voice to that of an increasing number of Arabs who were shocked by the news concerning the IRGC:

“If this news is true about the Biden administration’s intention to remove the Revolutionary Guard militia from the list of terrorism, this would be the mother of all disasters. The Revolutionary Guard gangs have committed many crimes. They also contributed to the recruitment of children into the ranks of the terrorist Houthi militia.”

Judging from the severe consternation in the Arab countries over Biden’s mistaken and disastrous policies towards Iran and its terrorist proxies, it’s safe to assume that U.S. credibility has plummeted in the Arab world.