The White House’s reluctant capitulation should be a victory for international security, not solely Republicans. But the White House’s acquiescence does reveal how correct hawkish Republicans yet again were on questioning the Biden administration’s claims about the innocuousness of the $6 billion to the Ayatollahs. …

Why refreeze the funds if they were so tightly monitored that they couldn’t contribute to the region’s destabilization, as we’ve been reminded? The administration backed itself into a corner by insisting upon refreezing these funds only after Hamas’s barbaric Oct. 7 atrocities against innocent Israelis.

The refreezing of these assets could complicate the administration’s baser instinct to surrender when Americans are held hostage, but clearly, that is a problem for another day.