“Biden wants to revive Obama’s Iran policy”

Levin asked DeSantis why the Biden administration felt it necessary to attack Israel’s democratically elected government rather than show solidarity with it against common threats like Iran.

DeSantis said:

It’s just outrageous. I mean it’s all political. You know, they honestly don’t like Bibi because he’s a conservative. They meddle in internal Israeli affairs like judicial reform, which is totally inappropriate for us to stick our beaks into. These are first class, very smart people in this country. They can find out. And that’s an essential part: Ultimately, Biden wants to revive Obama’s Iran policy. He wants to strengthen Iran. And they think that’s good policy. And it’s not. And that’s why we should be tightening the screws against the Iranians, tightening the screws against this regime. When Obama made the Iran deal, they used the money exactly as people like you and I predicted. They used it to fund terrorism throughout the Middle East. And that is their ultimate goal. And I think given how insane the regime is, they would definitely launch a nuclear attack on Israel if they thought they could get away with it, even if they knew they were going to face retaliation for thinking that it’s worth it. So it’s a very dangerous regime. And we should do everything we can to prevent them from possessing a nuclear weapon.

Obama’s Iran deal, struck in 2015, bypassed the Senate deal and dropped sanctions on Iran, adding billions of dollars in cash and unfrozen assets in exchange for Iran’s promise to slow its uranium enrichment.

Netanyahu, who opposed the deal, noted that it does not refer to Iran’s support for terrorism around the world and that it puts Iran on track to become a nuclear power after various restrictions of the deal expired . In April 2018, he dramatically revealed intelligence files that showed Iran had failed to honor the deal and never abandoned its ambitions to develop nuclear weapons.