Writing in CNN, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden outlined his administration’s plan for Iran. In a piece titled, “There’s a smarter way to be tough on Iran,” Biden said he would work with Iran to restore the 2015 nuclear deal.
“I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy. If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations,” the former vice president wrote.
Biden slammed Trump for walking away from the nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration. The former vice president said that because of this, Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than they were before. It’s true that Iran is stockpiling more enriched uranium than before Trump pulled out of the deal, but it is part of a calculated plan, and the Islamic Republic is not showing any signs of making a real effort to develop a bomb.
While Biden stressed diplomacy in this op-ed, he also repeated unsubstantiated claims from the Trump administration about Iran. Biden blamed Iran for rocket attacks on US troops in Iraq, a September 2019 attack on Saudi oil infrastructure, and sabotage of oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman that happened in 2019.
The Trump administration and plenty of US officials blame Iran for all the incidents listed above. Little evidence has been presented to corroborate these claims, and there are other parties, like the Houthis in Yemen, who had plenty of motive to carry out these attacks.
Biden didn’t outright condemn the January assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, but he did criticize Trump for ratcheting up tensions around that time. Biden also slammed Trump for downplaying the injuries US troops sustained after Iran fired missiles at a US base in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of Soleimani.
As part of his administration’s plan, Biden said they “will continue to push back against Iran’s destabilizing activities.” This includes working with Israel and continuing to provide them security assistance. Biden also says he will use targeted sanctions against “Iran’s human rights abuses, its support for terrorism and ballistic missile program.”
In the piece, Biden said he would work to help end the war in Yemen. The 2020 Democratic Party platform calls for an end for US support for the war in Yemen and is another area where a Biden administration may be less hawkish than Trump.
Biden discussed some of his other foreign policy plans in an interview with Stars and Stripes last week. Biden said he could not promise a withdrawal from Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria since the situations there are complicated. He also suggested defense spending could increase under his administration.
Who is this Biden? What is his authority to talk how to be tough on Iran.The policy will be decided by Bloomberg Netinyahu, Adelson and others. Jeffry Epstein is supposed to be dead or else he also would have been a part of the decision making group. Who ever decides, jokers like Trump or Biden will have no part in it. There job is just to declare whatever Zionist cabal intends to do. This is 21st century America..
Maybe he’s confused, …thinks he’s running for Israeli PM.
Hallucination, Delirium rather than confusion
when Bidens lips are moving he is lying—a sleazy used car salesman that makes al Capone seem like a philanthroposit
Which is why he is perfect to be the next potus.
However, he is not as slick a snake oil salesman as Trump.
Biden orvTrump? It will not change anything. The wars will continue. Only genuine regime change coming from the American people themselves will result in real foreign policy change and an end of the ruling MIC God willing!!
Depressing as it is, you are correct that the levers of power exist in Wall Street and the Pentagon. Our “representatives” are puppets controlled by the power that exists, and we are just the recipients of the occasional shower of symbolic towels, tossed by our “representatives”.
This either ends with failed state to one degree or another; Or with the soldier classes wising up in time to organize Athens, Tn style political and if necessary militia action stopping of the political machine. But on a national scale. Tough path ahead for this experiment in democracy.
It’s the US that needs a path back to diplomacy, and if history is any indication, the only way we will be willing to talk seriously and with a sliver of fairness with anyone is if they do have nuclear weapons to deter US attack. Anyone who wants to be taken seriously has to be willing to make concessions, and pausing attacks doesn’t count for much.
Tiptoeing among the Iranian tulips.
Will someone remind Biden that Iran signed the NPT in 1968, ratified it in 1970. Iran can centrifuge all it wants for peaceful purposes. The IAEA has been conducting inspections for decades. Even if Iran comes up with one bomb there is no delivery mechanism in place, No ICBM. The Pentagon has said that the only reason for Iran to come up with the bomb is for deterrence.
The “deal” with Iran was a joke. The “deal” was made in 1968.
There are two destabilising forces in the ME. US and Israel.
And their employees.
. Only Israel. You don’t consider an occupied territory or colony an entity. USA is only a serfdom of Israel. No value, significance or relevance
Biden is going to Pissoff AIPAC with a kinder / gentler policy concerning Iran.
LOL. Nice sarcasm. He is as much their puppet as Trump.
Does anyone believe the op-ed was written by Biden? I would be willing to bet that if someone asked Biden about the op-ed, he would not be able to articulate its content and his most likely response would be, “What op-ed?”
Correction “Biden puts name on Iran Policy Op-Ed.” We know his brain isn’t capable of coming up with any plan on its own anymore. Any my mom passed away from Alzheimer’s, and I can tell you that he has that same look on his face. Those with loved ones with dementia know exactly the look I am talking about.
“I have no illusions about the challenges the regime in Iran poses to America’s security interests, to our friends and partners and to its own people”
Saying you have no illusions and then rattling off your illusions. Biden is basically saying the same shit as Trump with a little less belligerent tone.
Biden said in a recent article for CNN’s website that the US will rejoin the 2015 deal if Iran returns to what he called “strict compliance” with the nuclear accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
“I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy. If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations. With our allies, we will work to strengthen and extend the nuclear deal’s provisions, while also addressing other issues of concern,” he wrote.
So Biden sticks to the current admin. policy. Also under Obama the US did not comply to the JCPOA by not removing the sanctions. Like Trump, Biden wants to put additional demands and even harsher restriction on Iran before lifting sanction.
Even if the US would get its way, there is no guarantee the US would abide by a new agreement.