Sending a message to the incoming Biden administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged against returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal during a speech on Sunday.
“There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement,” Netanyahu said during an event honoring Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. “We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons.”
Joe Biden has said he plans to work with Iran to return to the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). But his administration will face enormous pressure from Iran hawks in Congress, Israel, and some Gulf states to pursue a tougher agreement.
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia should be involved in future negotiations between the US and Iran on a new nuclear deal. Al-Saud said the deal should cover not only Iran’s nuclear program but also its “regional malign activity.” He said the deal could be called the “JCPOA++.”
Opponents of the JCPOA criticize the deal for not covering things like Iran’s ballistic missile program or its support for groups in the Middle East but demanding new restrictions before sanctions relief is likely a non-starter for negotiations with Iran.
Israel and AIPAC do tend to control American Foreign Policy, sure would be nice to bring that home and have the Policies benefit Americans for a change.
The Saudis are deluded the nuclear deal has nothing to do with them nor should they take part in it.
OMG Brian Kilmeade was fuming about China on FOX because China was asking Biden to return to a normal relationship, he said, ‘so China thinks they have the authority to dictate U.S. foreign policy’.
But here Netanyahu is giving the U.S. marching orders, and not even about Israel but about how we deal with Iran. At least China was only talking about themselves. He’s a Neanderthal.
Saudi Arabia (and the UAE) should stop their malign activities in the region. Recruiting, funding and training terrorists will not end well for either country.
And Israel. It is the very definition of malign activities in the region.
Okay, so the boss has spoken. His will be done in America, doormat of the pipsqueak Jewish State.
Maybe we’ll take Bibi’s issues with Iran and the NPT seriously just as soon as israel joins the NPT. If you don’t play the game, you don’t get to make the rules….unless you own the USG-like the israelis do.
When Israel signs on to ANY nuclear regulatory inspection program, then they might have a place at the table. Until then, Israel has ZERO credentials to speak about limiting any other nation’s nuclear capabilities. As for the JCPOA, Israel is not a signatory, so their opinion means nothing.
There cannot be a “return” to the old deal. Its time is half run out, and the US failed to deliver on what were promised to be long term advantages in return for short term concessions.
Now the US took the concessions and delivered nothing. Worse, it could not now deliver what it promised, because the time is past and the long term was not done.
So the US would need to offer other things. Since it cheated, those would need to be bigger things, more certain of delivery.
Since that is unlikely, we are looking now at a nuclear Iran, and the sooner the better to head off a long term drive toward war.
It would help too if the people of Saudi Arabia would overthrow that monarchy.
There absolutely CAN be a return to the old deal, if that return is complete, unilateral, and gives the Iranians time to return to it as the victors, not as supplicants.
It’s not like the USA has never broken agreements before, but with one political party here seemingly hell-bent on undoing any advances made by another political party, Iran and other nations will think twice about signing agreements under which they’re first required to give concessions for a promise of something down the road.
The return to JCPOA is near and Satanyaboo cannot do anything about it….!
Deranged neocon calculus: Any agreement under which Iran must submit to inspections and which also restricts the amount of nuclear material which may be enriched and to what level/purity it may be enriched, equals permitting Iran to develop nuclear weapons. However, a lack of any deal plus threats of military violence = Iran safely contained. You can’t make this sh*t up!