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DUBAI: United States President Joe Biden鈥檚 Middle East policy has given Iran 鈥渁 clear message鈥� that it could continue its attack on the region and threaten its security, a senior fellow at Hudson Institution told Arab News.

Michael Pregent says the message the Biden administration is sending to Iran is that 鈥測ou can hit Israel, you can hit 抖阴短视频, you can hit the US mission in Iraq. We are going to do all we can to down play it.鈥�

Pregent was referring to the recent attacks carried out by Iran.

On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran for a blast aboard an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week.

The MV Helios Ray, a vehicle-carrier ship, was hit overnight by a blast above the water line that a US official said ripped holes in both sides of its hull.

鈥淭his was indeed an operation by Iran. That is clear,鈥� Netanyahu told Kan radio.

Pregent also stated that as soon as the Biden administration lifted the Iran-backed Houthis from the list of terrorist organizations, the militia attacked 抖阴短视频.

An attack by the Iran-backed Houthi militia that left a civilian plane ablaze at 抖阴短视频鈥檚 Abha airport last month sparked international anger.

More recently, World and Arab leaders condemned drone and missile attacks on 抖阴短视频 by Houthi militias on Saturday targeting Riyadh and Khamis Mushayt.

In response to these 鈥渁ggressions and provocations鈥� which Pregent says is out of the 鈥淚ranian playbook,鈥� the US is showing that it is not going to stand in Iran鈥檚 way.

鈥淎ll the messages they are hearing from Washington DC is that 鈥榟elp is on the way, that economic help is on the way, the lifting of sanctions is on the way,鈥欌�� Pregent said.

The new administration of President Joe Biden has said it is ready to talk to Iran about both nations resuming compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, which scrapped broad economic sanctions against Iran in return for curbs intended to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons - something Iran says it does not want.

But the parties cannot agree who should make the first move. Iran says the United States must lift sanctions, while Washington says Tehran must return to compliance with the deal, which Iran has been progressively breaching since 2019.

Pregent says the 2015 Iran deal escalated Tehran鈥檚 鈥渢errorist capabilities,鈥� in the Middle East and in response Biden said it is going to stop selling 鈥渙ffensive capabilities to the Saudis or the Emiratis鈥� and 鈥渄own play militia attacks on the US mission in Iraq.鈥�

In December last year, former President Donald Trump blamed Iran for a series of rocket attacks that targeted the US Embassy in Iraq and warned against further aggression.

鈥淥ur embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets. Three rockets failed to launch. Guess where they were from: IRAN,鈥� Trump wrote on Twitter.

The Iraqi military blamed 鈥渁n outlawed group鈥� for the attack, which came weeks before the first anniversary of the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in a US drone airstrike in Iraq.

Pregent says Trump鈥檚 order to assassinate Soleimani was a game changer as it restored 鈥渄eterrence in US foreign policy,鈥� while Biden, he says, has 鈥渞estored a permissive environment for Iran.鈥�

During the Barack Obama administration 鈥� During which Biden was vice president 鈥� Soleimani was told that the US could not strike the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) because the authorized use of military force did not allow it, according to Pregent.

鈥淭rump changed all of that,鈥� he said.  

However, Pregent now states that Iran believes it has 鈥渁llies in the United States.鈥�

鈥淚f you are part of the IRGC it sounds to me like you can do whatever you want for the next four years,鈥� he said.

鈥淚 can鈥檛 think of a greater offence than to be called an ally of the IRGC,鈥� he added.