Biden Is Inviting Mideast Mayhem

Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels struck again over the weekend, launching drone and missile attacks on two Saudi oil facilities. It was the latest sign that President Biden’s efforts to get Tehran to rein in its pawns aren’t working.

This is the second attack from an Iranbacked militia since Team Biden launched airstrikes on a group in Syria in late February — an action intended to deter attacks in the wake of a Feb. 15 rocket barrage on a US military base in northern Iraq. Undeterred, another of Tehran’s puppets on March 3 fired 10 rockets at Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq, which hosts about 2,000 US troops.

Now the challenges grow, with Sunday’s attack on the Saudis, the latest in years of Houthi potshots that include more than 500 drone strikes and over 300 missile assaults.

Iran and its minions see Biden giving up on the Saudis. He’s pulled direct US military support for their anti-Houthi coalition in the bloody Yemen war and last month released an old intel report claiming Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman explicitly OK’d the 2018 murder of Saudi-emigré journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018.

Meanwhile, the Bidenites are practically begging Iran to start talks about reopening the Obama nuclear deal.

Bottom line: A single, half-hearted strike at Iranian pawns won’t do a thing. Biden needs to use imagination, as Team Trump did in taking out Tehran’s terror chief, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, back in January 2020.

Then again, Biden’s top advisers said the Trump strike could start a regional war, just as they insisted moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would bring disaster.

Utterly wrong on both counts, but Biden’s lame approach so far to Middle East conflict suggests they haven’t learned a thing.