It’s been reported this afternoon that the Biden administration is letting Iran off the hook for the attacks on US troops by their proxy groups in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Biden’s intelligence agencies have apparently come to the conclusion that Iran doesn’t have full control of these groups and therefore they aren’t responsible for their actions.

The administration is putting this out there to keep from angering Iran when they finally retaliate against the Iranian group that killed three American soldiers.

Here’s the news via Politico:

Intelligence officials have calculated that Tehran does not have full control over its proxy groups in the Middle East, including those responsible for attacking and killing U.S. troops in recent weeks, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The Quds Force — an elite branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps — is responsible for sending weapons and military advisers as well as intelligence to support militias in Iraq and Syria as well as the Houthis in Yemen. The groups have varying ambitions and agendas, which sometimes overlap, but Tehran does not appear to have complete authority over their operational decision-making, the officials said.

While the disclosure means it may be particularly hard to predict what actions these groups will take, it also could lower the chance of the U.S. getting pulled into a direct confrontation with Iran. Any indication that Tehran was directly involved in ordering or overseeing the attacks would make U.S. retaliation against Iran more likely.

Reports have indicated that the U.S. is considering striking Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria in response to the Jordan attack. But Biden officials have not publicly discussed their planning.

Washington does not have a regular, direct line of communication with Tehran and with the escalating violence in the region, the Biden administration has sought to understand the extent to which the regime has been involved in directing attacks on U.S. troops.

While Iran is supporting the proxy groups financially and with military equipment, intelligence officials do not believe it is commanding the attacks. Its lack of control over the Houthis and the militias in Iraq and Syria has muddied the deliberations in Washington about how to respond to repeated attacks on U.S. interests in the region, including the attack in Jordan Jan. 28 that killed three American troops.

“This is perhaps the most complicated period that I have seen in this region,” one of the U.S. officials said.

The U.S. does not assess that Tehran is directing all of the attacks in the region, but it knows it is fueling the crisis — and the administration holds Iran at least partially responsible.

“I do hold … them responsible in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it,” Biden told reporters Tuesday.

Iran is behind all of this! They are supplying their proxy groups the weapons and the knowledge to use them and their IRGC soldiers have been on the ground with these groups. It’s ridiculous to let them off the hook in any way shape or form.

Also, why is Joe Biden so scared of Iran? He treats them like we did Russia in the cold war. When it comes to the most powerful militaries in the world with the biggest budgets, they don’t even crack the top ten. One chart I saw for 2023 put them at #17. His fear of Iran makes no sense to me. He needs to do what needs to be done to stop these attacks once and for all.