Conservatives criticize Obama aide Ben Rhodes over Iran comments

Ben Rhodes, a key figure in the Obama administration who pushed through the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, was criticised on social media on Saturday after criticising US military strikes on Iran.

Immediately after the joint US and Israeli attack, Rhodes was critical of the administration on social media, saying that Trump and Netanyahu were “completely uncaring about the human beings – everywhere – who will suffer.”

“Trump’s second term has been the worst,” Rhodes said in another. X post.

Rhodes was immediately ridiculed by many conservatives on social media, who pointed to the Obama-era Iran deal as the catalyst that led to the situation escalating to this point and placed blame on the Obama administration for not taking the threat from Iran seriously.

“Yes, we were much better off with a president who drew boundaries and failed to enforce them,” said Mark Thiessen, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Fox News contributor. Posted on X. “Team Obama will probably want to sit this one out.”

“Oh look, the guy who literally created this mess in the first place has spoken out,” said Republican digital operative Alec Sears. Posted on X.

Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said, “You were part of the team that gave billions of dollars to the Iranian regime – you helped finance this terror on mankind. ” Posted on X. “Once again, President Trump is cleaning up your mess.”

George Conway, a long-time critic of Trump, has called America a ‘terrorist country’ after the Iran attack.

“You had eight years to do something about this issue,” Red State author Bonchi posted on X. “Instead, you became a foreign operative and were doing everything possible to preserve the Islamist regime.”

“You made these circumstances right.”

“The Obama team cries out for mullahs,” said Tim Murtaugh, former Trump campaign communications director. Posted on X.

Ben Rhodes, the former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for President Barack Obama, appears on “Meet the Press.” (Getty Images)

“Ben Rhodes is responsible for how America got to this point,” said Middle East and geopolitical analyst Matthew Brodsky. Posted on X. “He is a spineless agent of influence for the regime in Iran. It took years to undo the damage done to his foreign policy.”

News broke on Saturday afternoon that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader who ruled the Islamic Republic for more than three decades, was killed in an attack against Iran.

Israeli leaders confirmed that Khamenei’s compound and office were reduced to rubble early Saturday following a targeted attack in downtown Tehran.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of FDD’s Iran programme, told Fox News Digital, “Khamenei was the longest-serving dictator of the contemporary Middle East. He didn’t become that way because he was a gambler. Khamenei was an ideologue but also a man who acted ruthlessly to preserve and protect his ideology, often taking two steps forward and one step back.”

Fox News Digital’s Efrat Lacher contributed to this report.

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