The fourth round of talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal kicked off in Vienna on Friday. Iran’s top negotiator said he believes the US is “serious” about returning to the agreement but that it has not yet offered adequate sanctions relief.
“The information transferred to us from the US side is that they are also serious on returning to the nuclear deal and they have so far declared their readiness to lift a great part of their sanctions,” Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi said.
“But this is not adequate from our point of view and therefore the discussions will continue until we get to all our demands,” Araqhi added.
Over in Washington, President Biden was asked if he believed the Iranian side was serious about reviving the JCPOA. “Yes, but how serious, and what they are prepared to do is a different story. But we’re still talking,” he said.
The Biden administration refuses to lift all Trump-era sanctions that were imposed after the US withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, so the two sides are currently negotiating what sanctions the US is willing to lift and what is acceptable to Iran.
The Russian delegate in Vienna said the parties agreed to “intensify” the effort to revive the deal during Friday’s talks. “The delegations seem to be ready to stay in Vienna as long as necessary to achieve the goal,” Russian delegate Mikhail Ulyanov wrote on Twitter.
On Thursday, an unnamed US State Department official spoke with reporters and blamed Iran for the slow progress, accusing Tehran of making “unrealistic demands” for sanctions relief. But the reality is, the US is the party that broke the agreement and can revive it at any time by lifting sanctions. And the fact that Iran is willing to negotiate at all is a major concession.
Be realistic and acknowledge that we can’t be trusted to honor the terms of this treaty any more than the last one.
American Native Americans can attest to that……………….
Over in Washington, President Biden was asked if he believed the Iranian side was serious about reviving the JCPOA. “Yes, but how serious, and what they are prepared to do is a different story. But we’re still talking,” he said.
They are willing to go back into full compliance to the deal they agreed to while you aren’t, you senile old fool. That is the ONLY story.
The BIG story is Iran signed the NPT in 1968, ratified the same in 1970, something Israel has not done and will never do.
THAT is the real deal.
We need to lift all sanctions, release all Iranian money, FORTHWITH!
This won’t happen, and basically can’t happen.
The sanctions put on by the Orange Oaf can be removed as easily as the dummy put them on, but of course Biden doesn’t want to do that. The ones put on Iran by Congress are essentially set in stone, for both houses of that august body are totally owned by the Apartheid state. It’s a “bipartisan” thing too.
A good case can be made that Biden is serving as “Trump’s Second Term” in foreign policy. A guy has done that:
Biden chose an astoundingly stupid and arrogant policy of the U.S.&UK imperium, instead of criticizing and renouncing his immediate predecessors’ policies on these matters
Sample:
Many more such examples at the link.
Also:
Biden has had a long, long career as politician. Not being the brightest bulb in the lamp, he probably wasn’t careful enough with all the shady shenanigans he worked at. Certainly his offspring haven’t been. Besides his innate desire to be a right-wing neocon, the pissant state very probably has some ‘stuff’ in its blackmail vault he’d rather not see the light of day. Suddenly turning into a “decent person” is going to be a problem in more ways than one.
How nice it must be, a gig like this. Extremely exclusive accommodations and no work, aside from stone-walling in private and routinely issuing bromidic press releases to the public. Spending the days drinking fantastically expensive wines at sybaritic dining, tennis, riding, shooting, gym and massage; and the evenings …. Our wonderful Foreign Service folks.