Donald Trump stated Joe Biden had left the globe on the “brink of World War Three” after a drone assault on a base in Jordan killed three US troops.
The former president rounded on his successor in a vociferous tirade following Sunday’s incident, which the White House blamed on “Iran-backed” militants working within the Middle East.
“This brazen assault on the United States is yet one more horrific and tragic consequence of Joe Biden’s weak point and give up,” Mr. Trump stated in a press release.
“Three years in the past, Iran was weak, broke, and completely beneath management. Thanks to my most strain coverage, the Iranian regime might barely scrape two {dollars} collectively to fund their terrorist proxies,” he added.
The Republican frontrunner accused Mr. Biden of giving Iran “billions of {dollars}”, which he stated had been utilized by Tehran to “unfold bloodshed and carnage all through the Middle East”.
“This assault would by no means have occurred if I used to be president, not even an opportunity – similar to the Iranian-backed Hamas assault on Israel would by no means have occurred, the warfare in Ukraine would by no means have occurred, and we might proper now have peace all through the world,” he stated.
“Instead, we’re getting ready to World War Three,” Mr. Trump added.
‘This horrible day’
As president, Mr. Trump scrapped the Iran nuclear deal that was negotiated by the Obama administration and reimposed sanctions on Tehran.
He accused the Iranian regime of negotiating in unhealthy religion and failing to return clear about its nuclear weapons program.
“This horrible day is but extra proof that we’d like a right away return to peace by power, in order that there might be no extra chaos, no extra destruction, and no extra lack of treasured American lives,” Mr. Trump stated.
“Our nation can’t survive with Joe Biden as commander in chief.”
Mr. Biden’s administration has tried to steadily defuse the strain with Iran that escalated throughout Mr. Trump’s years within the White House.
Last 12 months, the Democrat president agreed to a $6 billion (£4.7 billion) prisoner swap cope with Iran, which noticed 5 US residents freed in return for the discharge of Iranians held within the US and $6 billion in humanitarian funding.