Antony Blinken
The U.S. secretary of state speaks with the foreign ministers of the E.U., UAE and Israel about bringing an end to the fighting • The Jordanian Parliament calls to expel Israel’s envoy to Amman.
The envoy aims to “reinforce the need to work toward a sustainable calm, recognizing Israel’s right to self-defense.”
To date, more than 1,300 rockets have been fired on the Jewish state since the hostilities began.
The top U.S. diplomat said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hady Amr is being sent to the region to meet with Israelis and Palestinians to de-escalate the situation.
American legislators applauded Israel for overcoming so many challenges since its founding, including “threats from the outside; violence and terror; economic distress; and, of course, the greatest health crisis the world has seen in a hundred years.”
The move reflects Washington’s assessment that the measures adopted by the previous administration were “inappropriate and ineffective,” says U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Biden administration’s foreign-policy agenda, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged the work of his predecessor, Mike Pompeo.
“We will continue to consider all appropriate tools to impose costs on those responsible for human-rights violations and abuses in Iran,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
In October, a U.S. court ordered the Iranian government to pay more than $1.4 billion in punitive and compensatory damages to his family.
Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Cardin and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said they are “concerned that the court’s recent actions” have “inappropriately infused politics into the judicial process.”
The Biden administration has promised to improve relations with the Palestinians, including restoring American aid that was cut off by the Trump administration.
“Washington should be using this time to build bridges with allies abroad over Iran—not to signal support for talks that aim to claw-back a fast-expiring bad deal,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS.
