“Continued failure by the administration will make Israel extra susceptible to additional assaults,” Banks stated.
Left: (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Right: Ayatollah Khamenei (Majid/Getty Images)
The Biden-Harris administration’s failure to supply a congressionally mandated report on the Iranian regime’s large human rights abuses and the potential path for brand new sanctions has fuelled accusations that the US is unwilling and afraid to confront Iran amid escalating terrorist exercise.
President Joe Biden was legally required to submit a report on Wednesday assessing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ongoing human rights crimes and outlining new sanctions in opposition to administration officers complicit in them.
The report was mandated underneath the MAHSA Act, a bipartisan regulation handed after Iran’s morality police killed a 22-year-old lady for improperly sporting a hood. The 2022 killing sparked large demonstrations throughout Iran, threatening the steadiness of the hardline regime and leading to many protesters being arrested, tortured and killed. The regulation was broadly supported by Iran’s main reform and advocacy teams that oppose the hardline regime.
“President Biden has demonstrated his incapability to implement the legal guidelines enacted by Congress, and the timing of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s joint speech at the moment additional underscores the implications of a leaderless administration,” Banks informed the Washington Free Beacon. “Continued failure of the Biden-Harris administration will depart Israel extra susceptible to additional assaults from Hamas and its greatest backer, Iran.”
“I name on the White House to observe the regulation, implement MAHSA, and maintain Iran accountable,” Banks added. “This administration is not only incompetent, it’s the most anti-Israel White House in American historical past. Vice President Harris shamefully refused to chair at the moment’s historic joint tackle, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s first because the horrific bloodbath by Hamas on October seventh.”
Under the MAHSA Act, the President is required to organize an annual report assessing whether or not Iranian authorities officers concerned in human rights crimes must be sanctioned. If these people are discovered to be supporting the regime’s draconian police state, punitive measures have to be imposed.
“This isn’t non-obligatory. The regulation requires the president to decide, and there have to be a report,” Jason Brodsky, coverage director for the Coalition on Iranian Nuclear Issues, wrote on X.
Iranian-American advocacy teams additionally expressed concern that the administration isn’t following the regulation.
“The MAHSA regulation was enacted with a solemn willpower to advertise accountability and defend human rights in Iran. The well timed implementation of this regulation is essential to handle ongoing human rights violations and be certain that these accountable are held accountable,” human rights group National Democratic Union of Iran stated in a press release. “The refusal to implement this regulation, which was handed with overwhelming bipartisan help, is an affront to human rights and democracy.”
The White House National Security Council didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.