Last month, as he so often does, Joe Biden unwittingly said the quiet part out loud. But this time, his gaffe may have heralded something positive.
In a newly surfaced clip from a November event in California, Biden is seen telling a woman in attendance that efforts to resurrect the Iran nuclear accord are “dead, but we are not going to announce it. Long story.”
The good news, assuming Biden wasn’t just playing to his audience in that video, is that the Iran deal may be heading to the ash heap of history where it belongs. Initially negotiated by the Obama administration and subsequently terminated by President Trump, the ill-fated agreement was flawed from its inception, and an Iran Deal 2.0, as attempted by the Biden administration, was looking no better.
Aside from that one surfaced comment, Biden has been unwilling to come out and state the obvious, even as Iran’s theocratic regime is facing serious popular challenge to its rule.
Let’s hope this really is the administration’s final goodbye to the Iran deal.