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“after Barack Obama selected Joe Biden to be his Vice President in 2008, one newspaper columnist labeled him ``Tehran's favorite Senator.'' Well, Tehran's favorite Senator has now become Tehran's favorite President. Since taking office, Joe Biden has taken every opportunity to enrich and empower Iran and its terrorist proxies. There is, perhaps, no greater single example of this than his obscene coddling of the Iranian-backed Yemeni terrorists known as the Houthis. These barbarians with rockets have kidnapped, tortured, and murdered American citizens--along with shooting down American aircraft. They have attacked our allies and slaughtered Yemeni civilians. The Houthi motto isn't subtle: ``God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam.'' And in case anyone missed it, they also put it on their flag. Yet in his first days in office, Joe Biden removed the Houthis from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. The Houthis quickly rewarded this one-sided, unreciprocated generosity by launching a major military offensive against our friends in Saudi Arabia. At that point, Joe Biden could have simply admitted that he had made a mistake and redesignated the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization. He refused. In the 2 years since, the Houthis raked in money, expanded their territorial control, and stockpiled Iranian-supplied weapons.…”