On Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ruled out any changes to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. He also rejected calls to include other countries in the deal.
“No clause of the JCPOA will change. Know this. And no one will be added to the JCPOA,” Rouhani said. French President Emmanuel Macron recently called for new “strict” nuclear talks with Iran and said Saudi Arabia should be involved.
Iranian officials have been clear that they want the original deal that was negotiated in 2015 and violated by the US in 2018. “This is the agreement. If they want it, everyone comes into compliance. If they don’t, they can go live their lives,” Rouhani said.
So far, the Biden administration does not seem to be in a hurry to revive the JCPOA and give Iran sanctions relief. The administration is demanding that Iran return to commitments it agreed to when the JCPOA was negotiated, while Iran is calling on President Biden to act first since the US is the party that violated the deal.
Offering a way out of the impasse, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Monday that the EU could oversee and coordinate the actions necessary for the US and Iran to return to the JCPOA. But the US dismissed the idea.
When asked about Zarif’s offer, State Department spokesman Ned Price said there are “many steps” the US has to take before engaging “directly with Iran” and before the US is willing to “entertain any sort of proposal.”
Suppose for a moment that a group of allied countries succeeds in overthrowing the current regime of Iran to install a Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne. That emperor will find the complete technology in place to….produce a nuclear arsenal! Will he? Probably yes. What irony!
Suppose Iran succeeds in overthrown the Saudi royal family, and controlling all the oil of the Middle East. What irony.
The Saudis are far more vulnerable than the elected government of Iran.
Yes, the US shades the credibility of those elections, but it tells those lies about all its enemies.
When asked about Zarif’s offer, State Department spokesman Ned Price said there are “many steps” the US has to take before engaging “directly with Iran” and before the US is willing to “entertain any sort of proposal.”
In other words, Ned can’t read.
Or blind to the true agenda of the U.S. and it’s rogue nuclear bomb buddy. They want a total monopoly on deterrence and aggressive actions in the entire area.
it turned out getting Barry some sort of foreign policy trophy is going to prove expensive for everyone.
Just send the trophy to the (See Eye Eh)
Or whichever other letter agency that was responsible for his Trojan Whores presidency. The Democrat Party…?????
Iran put its alternative choices on hold, pending the election of Biden.
Biden does not have the choice of “remain just as Trump left things.” It was on hold, and now that Biden is here, the hold is off.
If Biden won’t act, then we must expect Iran will act.
re: So far, the Biden administration does not seem to be in a hurry to revive the JCPOA//
One Biden foot-dragging problem on the JCPOA has been his failure to actually appoint Robert Malley as special envoy to Iran. His appointment has many detractors and supporters, as described by Responsible Statecraft here.
But we must remember, the US does have some democratic influences, one of them being that the Congress does hold some sway on treaties even though presidents often disregard the Constitution and do treaty things on there own. That’s especially true on anything Israel doesn’t like, unless a president is near the end of his tenure and wanting some achievement for a presidential library, as Obama was.
The end is near for Iran’s , be be nuclear power, I give it 6 months and it will up go up in rubble, by Israel.
There never will be peace with the current theocracy ruling Iran.
Or the apartheid state of (Is Real Hell) where most of the local inhabitants have been striped of all their rights & become refugees in their own land where they have lived for more than a thousand years!!!