Obama aide Ben Rhodes blasted by conservatives over Iran comments

Ben Rhodes, a leading figure in the Obama administration who pushed for the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, was criticized on social media on Saturday after criticizing US military strikes against Iran.

Immediately after the joint U.S. and Israeli attack, Rhodes was posting criticism of the administration on social media, saying Trump and Netanyahu “seem completely indifferent to the people who will be suffering on all sides.”

“Trump’s second term was the worst-case scenario,” Rhodes said in another statement. X post.

Rhodes was quickly mocked on social media by many conservatives who pointed to the Obama-era Iran deal as a catalyst that allowed the situation to escalate to this point and put the blame on the Obama administration for not taking the threat from Iran seriously.

“Yes, we were much better off with a president who drew red lines and failed to enforce them,” said Marc Thiessen, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Fox News contributor. Published on X. “Team Obama may want to leave this one out.”

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

“You were part of the team that gave billions of dollars to the Iranian Regime; you helped finance this terror on people,” former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said. Published on X. “President Trump is once again cleaning up your mess.”

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“You had eight years to do something about it,” Red State writer Bonchie said Published on X. “Instead, you became a foreign agent doing everything you could to protect the Islamist regime.”

“You meet these conditions.”

Former Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh says ‘Obama team is crying for the mullahs’ Published on X

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

Middle East and geopolitical analyst Matthew Brodsky said, “Ben Rhodes bears the responsibility for America reaching this point.” Published on X. “He is a spineless agent trying to influence the regime in Iran. It has taken years to undo the damage done by his foreign policy.”

On Saturday afternoon, it was reported that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the Islamic Republic for more than three decades, was killed in an attack on Iran.

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

Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of FDD’s Iran program, told Fox News Digital: “Khamenei was the Middle East’s longest-serving contemporary autocrat. He did not become what he was by being a gambler. Khamenei was an ideologue, but he was someone who tried to ruthlessly preserve and protect his ideology, often taking two steps forward and one step back.”

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

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