Anti-Israel Biden Envoy Cheers Idea Of Trump Making Deal With Iran

The virulently anti-Israel Biden administration envoy who claimed the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah — who are proxies for the despotic Islamic Iranian regime — were simply misunderstood by the West, cheered the idea that President Donald Trump might make a nuclear deal with Iran.

Rob Malley, Biden’s Special Envoy to Iran, told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in 2022, “The simple fact is this: as a means of constraining Iran’s nuclear program, the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] was working. Leaving it has not.”

Malley recently told The New York Times, “Biden was lukewarm about a deal; Trump is eager. Biden fixates on domestic politics; Trump couldn’t care less. Biden was calculating; Trump, impulsive. Trump is throwing caution, prudence and logic to the wind. Which is why there is probably a greater chance of some kind of understanding now than there ever was under the prior administration.”

Malley, who had a friendly relationship with arch-terrorist PLO leader Yasser Arafat, wrote in July 2001, in the middle of the murderous Second Intifada in which Palestinians murdered more than 1,000 Jews, that the idea of blaming Arafat for the failure of peace talks with Israel “acts as a harmful constraint on American policy by offering up a single, convenient culprit (Arafat) rather than a more nuanced and realistic analysis.”

According to the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, during the Second Intifada, 887 of the 1,137 Israelis murdered in attacks from September 2000 – 2005 were civilians. Just between May 2001 and May 2002 there were these massacres: five Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the HaSharon Mall in May 2001; 21 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the Dolphinarium Discotheque in June 2001; 15 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at Sbarro’s Pizza in August 2001, including six children and a 31-year-old woman who was the only child of her parents and was five months pregnant; 11 Israelis murdered in a bus bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem on December 1, 2001; 12 more Israelis murdered the very next day in a Haifa suicide bombing; 11 more Israelis murdered in a bus attack 10 days later in Immanuel; six Israelis murdered in an attack at a bas-mitzvah in January 2002; 11 more Jews killed in an attack on a yeshiva in March 2002, including a five-month-old child; 11 Jews murdered in a bombing at Café Moment in March 2002; 30 Israelis killed as they celebrated Passover in Netanya on March 27, 2002; 16 Israelis murdered in a suicide bombing four days later at the Matzah restaurant, and 16 Israelis murdered in Rishon LeZion in May 2002.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), possibly the staunchest opponent of Iran in the U.S. Senate, reacted harshly when reports indicated Biden would select Malley as his Special Envoy to Iran, stating in 2021, “It’s deeply troubling that President Biden would consider appointing Rob Malley to direct Iran policy. Malley has a long track record of sympathy for the Iranian regime & animus towards Israel. The ayatollahs wouldn’t believe their luck if he is selected.”

Three U.S. officials left the team negotiating with Iran because Malley would not take a harder negotiating position regarding sanctions.

Wang Xiyue, imprisoned in Iran between 2016 and 2019, wrote in 2021 that Biden appointing him as Special Envoy “would send a chilling signal to the dictatorship in Iran that the United States is solely focused on re-entering the Iran nuclear deal, and ignoring its regional terror and domestic crimes against humanity. It would also send a signal to Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, Lebanese, and all others that are being repressed by the Iranian regime and its proxies that the Biden administration does not care about their human rights.”

“In 2023, Malley stopped briefing Congress about his diplomatic efforts,” The Washington Free Beacon reported. “It soon became clear that he had been placed on administrative leave pending a State Department investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Malley eventually had his top secret security clearance pulled, and the FBI picked up the investigation into his activities. The Biden administration never released information about the findings of its investigation into Malley before leaving office.”

In 2010, in a documentary called Cultures of Resistance, Malley called for Israel to allow Hamas “to govern” Gaza. In a 1980 piece, he justified the violence Palestinians inflicted on Jews, writing, “There is a lot to be said about the Israeli treatment of Arabs — shameful on the part of a people who suffered more than any other from the injustices and horrors of racism. And the fact must be faced that the resort to violence by the Palestinians is the inevitable corollary of the violence done to them.”