by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:

Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the U.S. Congress this week just days after Israel’s capital city of Tel Aviv was bombed by Yemen’s Houthis.

And yet it wasn’t the Yemen Houthis he condemned, but their favorite “enemy,” Iran.

I’m standing here in Washington, D.C. and the difference is so stark. America’s founding document promises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Iran’s founding document pledges death, tyranny, and the pursuit of jihad. And as states are collapsing across the Middle East, Iran is charging into the void to do just that. (Transcript here.)

This rhetoric against Iran has been going on since the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan was caught in a scandal sending Iran militants to overthrow Nicaragua, all funded by the U.S.