Not once in his 10-minute statement Tuesday condemning Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel did President Biden mention Iran — the regime ultimately responsible for last weekend’s brutal murder of some 1,200 people in Israel, including at least 22 Americans. Worse, he delivered no warning to Iran that the regime would pay a severe price if its terrorist proxy, Hamas, harmed a single American among those it has taken hostage. This was a dereliction of duty.

Let’s be clear: Hamas would not be able to operate without the support of the Iranian regime. Iran funds its terrorist operatives, arms them, trains them. Without that Iranian support, Hamas would never have been able to carry out an attack of this scope and sophistication. Iran works through proxies such as Hamas precisely so it can blur responsibility for attacks such as this. And the Biden administration appears more than willing to cooperate with that ruse to avoid having to acknowledge the catastrophic failure of its Iran policy and impose consequences on Tehran for the American blood on its hands.

When Donald Trump was president, he did not let Iran get away with hiding behind proxies. His administration drew a clear red line with Iran’s leaders, warning that if they or their stand-ins killed a single American, the United States would draw no distinction between Iran and the terrorists it sponsors; we would respond militarily against Iran.

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