Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi warned in comments Tuesday that Iran’s government does not consider European offers sufficient to convince them to remain in the P5+1 nuclear deal. The US withdrew from the deal, and has tried to sabotage the sanctions relief offered by the remaining powers.
The EU has promised to block the US sanctions with respect to European companies, though some that were previously doing business with Iran, like Total S.A. and Siemens, have said they are going to stop doing business with Iran anyhow, fearing US punishment.
Iranian officials have said they will only remain in the deal so long as it benefits them. They have sought assurances of access to international trade, including financing of projects by European banks, and the ability to continue selling oil on the international market.
European nations may ultimately offer that, and Iran hasn’t set any deadline for getting more out of the remaining parties in the deal. This means Iran never really has to say they are satisfied with what is being offered, and can always angle for a bit more. So long as they remain in the deal, they have ample time.
I see it as most likely that US or Die Weisse Y’dsher Geld [lucre] will continue to threaten and demonize Iran for decades or centuries to come.
And it is coming to pass that even some or most of the Iranian theocrats are seeing that Iranian can stop fearing US/Israel only after acquiring WMD or only NW.
Surely, Iranians can see that the sixty-year-old threat to raze N.Korea–and lately by even NW– has not resulted in even one bomb hitting NK.
But after NK acquires NW and threatens the reunion with S.Korea, US has been forced to finally talk to NK.
Now we await: Union comes first and then denuclearization or denuclearization comes ahead of all other concerns?
Union may never happen. Korea was united for 500 years, but it was divided into three rather different Korean states for 1,000 years, and the differences involved things rather similar to now, including what the North today calls Juche, and what was once labelled the Hermit Kingdom. The differences between North and South are not mere ephemera, some are very long-standing, over centuries.
I said this before, with U.Ssss slithering away from this deal, I.ran saw no reason to stick around since the carrot and stick approach was meant for Uncle Sham.