Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that the US will work to “lengthen and strengthen” the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, and reiterated the Biden administration’s stance on the agreement.
“President Biden has said: if Iran comes back into strict compliance with the JCPOA, the United States is prepared to do the same,” Blinken said in a pre-recorded speech for a UN-sponsored disarmament conference in Geneva.
“We will also seek to lengthen and strengthen the JCPOA and address other areas of concern, including Iran’s destabilizing regional behavior and ballistic missile development and proliferation,” he said.
While the Biden administration has said it is willing to talk with Iran about the deal, Blinken and other officials continue to make additional demands. But Iranian officials have been clear that before the US lifts sanctions to comply with the JCPOA, Iran has no interest in a stricter agreement.
Since the US is the party that violated the deal in 2018 by reimposing sanctions, Iran wants Biden to act first. While Iran has increased the activity of its civilian nuclear program, throughout the process, Tehran has said the steps could be immediately reversed if the US lifts sanctions.
The EU is currently working to organize a meeting of the nuclear deal participants and the US. On Saturday, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Tehran is studying a proposal from the EU for the possible talks.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif had previously suggested the EU could help coordinate the actions needed to be taken by the US and Iran to revive the JCPOA. If the talks do happen, and the US continues to make unreasonable demands, it could kill the JCPOA for good.
Blinker-Nod does not have a clue as to what he is doing.
Sure he does. That’s the problem.
Do you think they’re going to go all the way this time?
Who? And “all the way” where?
The ‘Mericans, and I guess all the way to trying to beat Iran with large scale violence
It’s obvious there is no intention of rejoining the JCPOA without conditions. I’d hope war doesn’t hinge on the deal.
Iran too has shown it can talk tough, 60% enrichment and a possible nuclear weapon if “backed into a corner.”
So how far does this go?
I just don’t trust Biden or Blinken to have the good sense to manage this. They are crashing ahead here with arrogant certainty, just as they are with China and Russia. “We are back” but without the weight to carry that off.
“President Biden has said: if Iran comes back into strict compliance with the JCPOA, the United States is prepared to do the same,” Blinken said in a pre-recorded speech for a UN-sponsored disarmament conference in Geneva.
“We will also seek to lengthen and strengthen the JCPOA and address other areas of concern, including Iran’s destabilizing regional behavior and ballistic missile development and proliferation,” he said.
Lengthening and strengthening isn’t part of “compliance”. This is why Iran should bite the bullet and agree to come back “into strict compliance”. They say it would only take a short period of time. When the US then demands to “lengthen and strengthen” Iran can officially end this never ending charade. There is no way in hell this ever gets done. Make us look like the lying fools that we are and move on.
There will probably be talks, principally Iran telling the world what it requires, for emphasis, but not negotiations.
Any new deal should include Isreals nukes.
. . .from PressTV
Iran blocks IAEA nuclear inspections under Additional Protocol following sanctions deadline
Iran erects the middle finger to Blinken and the Nods. . .
Joint Statement by the Secretary of State of the United States of America and the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Yeah, we definitely need to toughen the deal with Iran because they obviously can’t be trusted (sarcasm).
The problem is that the US is acting like it deserves respect and benefit of the doubt; it deserves none. The US has shown that it’s not agreement-capable. Thus, “talking” about “deals” makes no sense. It’s making deals with a serial liar … what’s the point?
Actions beget actions. Talk is less than cheap.
Blinken can not renegotiate a deal that was cancelled irresponsibly in a knee jerk reaction by the delusional Trump administration. Putting pre-conditions on re-establishing relations after this colossal diplomatic blunder, the United States loses all international credibility and support. Blinken better spend his valuable time forcing Israel to sign the Atomic Non-Proliferation Agreement, but that may be against his pro-Zionist instincts.