Suspicion surrounds ex-Iran envoy Rob Malley after Israel attack: ‘Worst State Department scandal’
The Biden administration’s former special envoy to Iran, who was placed on leave earlier this year for allegedly mishandling classified material, should face “extensive scrutiny” for his “permissive” stance toward the Tehran regime after it aided Hamas and Hezbollah in carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel , critics said Monday.
“Rob Malley deserves extensive scrutiny — yesterday, today and tomorrow,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Post after the Wall Street Journal reported that officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps planned and signed off on this weekend’s atrocity that killed at least 900.
“These reports could not be more concerning, and they hint at what could be the worst State Department scandal since Alger Hiss ,” Issa added.
“Malley and others created an incredibly permissive environment for Hamas, for Iran, to do all these things,” added Gabriel Noronha, a former special adviser on Iran at the State Department.
Noronha, who served under former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said Malley and his negotiating team “purposefully funneled billions of dollars to [Iran] through lack of sanctions enforcement and provision of sanctions relief that has given them somewhere between $50 [billion] and $80 billion over the last two and a half years.”
A senior House Republican aide told The Post that the cash influx followed an even more generous payout of $1.7 billion that the Obama administration made to Iran in 2016, eventually contributing to Saturday’s attack that triggered the Jewish state’s first declaration of war in 50 years.
“There is a straight line from Obama’s giveaway to Iran, to Biden’s enriching of Iran — to Iran’s war on Israel,” the aide said.
Noronha also noted the Biden administration had allowed for “an enormous deterrence failure” by undertaking just four operations against Iran-backed terror groups after allowing the regime and its proxies to carry out 83 attacks of their own against US forces.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had revealed the muted US response to Iran-backed attacks in Senate testimony earlier this year.
On Saturday, Hamas terrorists launched the largest-scale offensive against Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, firing thousands of rockets into the Jewish state and engaging in a multi-front armed invasion to kill and capture civilians.
At least 900 Israelis have been killed, thousands wounded and approximately 150 taken hostage.
The death toll includes 11 Americans, with President Biden admitting Monday afternoon that US citizens were “likely” among those kidnapped and held in Gaza.
Noronha pointed out that under the Trump administration, the US did not distinguish “between the Iranian regime killing Americans and the regime’s proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah, killing Americans.”
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Malley originally had to resign from the Obama campaign for being a tool of Hamas. He was then restored to good graces, handed the lead of the negotiations with Iran and brought home the agreement to give Iran a nuke and cash for nothing in return. Once Biden was elected, he retuned and went into overdrive, generating 50-80 billion for his Iranian friends. And, of course, laying the groundwork for the next six billion Iran can use to fund terror and kill Americans.
Not only did Malley do everything he legally could for Iran/Hamas, he's also now suspected of being an Iranian spy.
Far right-wing fascists don't get a vote.
Political Liars should go to hell yesterday.
Another sketchy Clinton/Obama/Biden anti-Israeli operative ...
And more ...
It's crazy to see how much power this guy, who was either an Iranian spy or promoted them within Democratic administrations, wielded with regards to our Iran policy, and always to benefit Iran.
And, he's wielded this power during three Democrat administrations ... Clinton, Obama, Biden - a total of approximately 20 years.
And another complete fail for our Federal three letter acronym salad ….