Just days before the Iranian presidential election, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement reporting that a broad deal was reached with the US over sanctions relief in the industrial sector and energy.
The Ministry spokesman says only minute technical issues remain, and that there is nothing impossible for negotiators trying to work out the deal before the Friday election. The US has yet to confirm this deal being made, but it seems that things are being worked out quickly.
The current talks in Vienna are in their sixth round, and there has been hope recently that a deal could be in the offing, even as there was concern that the election is going to greatly complicate problems going forward.
Iran’s President Rouhani is a very pro-diplomacy reformist, and his second term in office comes to an end after this election. Expectations are that his replacement will be more conservative and less apt to trust a diplomatic process with the US.
This led Iran’s current government to warn that time is running out to make a deal to save the JCPOA, and that this is an opportunity that needs to be taken. Indications are that just that is happening, and it’s possible a deal will be announced before the vote.
If the US wants a deal to be made, this is the time to do it. Luckily, none of the other P5+1 nations are likely to resist the US finally making good on sanctions relief they promised years ago. That’s the deal that could’ve been in place long ago, and might yet be again.
Great deal for Iran ??????? Israel gets all and any nuclear bombs they want. And Iran gets to enrich to below 25% or less. This is how heavy the thumb is on the scale at these “talks”!!!!!
The new president of Iran was a serial torturer and human rights abuser.Iran murdered 30,000 political dissidents-their own people. It maintains the worlds largest terrorist army.They maintain ten sof thousands of offensive missiles. your concern for them is most touching.
How did you arrive at these assertions?
How did Jake arrive at these assertions? —-by being a Zionist – first, foremost and always.
Not at all. I don’t want anyone to be unjustly kicked out of their homes.Israel has done things that I don’t approve of.That does not negate the negative truths about Iran.
Indeed. Now lets say the same thing about Israel. One side is being sanctioned to the teeth while the other side collects $3.8 billion per year from US taxpayers and has the US veto away any of their “negative truths” at the UN.
Personally, I think the aid is excessive.However, it is apx 9% of foreign aid.The paradox is that this aid has allowed Israel to defer a first strike employing nukes, by providing a great deal of high tech conventional superiority.
So you think the gist of my comment was about the $3.8 billion?
It seems to be one of your obsession
I bring it up to prove a point. It proves a lot of points. But you don’t get points.
Oh Please! Jake.
I stated my position clearly. If you wish to put words in my mouth, thats your problem.
The only words that I would put in your mouth are – “I hate Iran because racist Israel hates Iran” — in other words – the truth.
Google Iran+missiles.
He was talking about nukes. You, by reflex, spew out more neocon gibberish. Deflect away from those hundreds of “offensive” nukes and tell us about Iran’s missiles.
wiki-EMAD 1.Or is that too hard for you?
What’s your point?
Iran is armed to the teeth. Looking what they have done to their own people-dissidents and Bahai. What will they do to those they have made their enemies? Conventionally tipped missiles can cause a great deal of suffering, but as of yet., they have never been decisive. The only logic is that some will be nuclear tipped.
All of Iran’s neighbors are also armed to the teeth. More so and with state of the art weapons from the US. Do the “Abraham Accords” ring a bell? Iran is no different than any of the other oppressive regimes in the region, including the Apartheid practicing Israelis, regarding human rights abuses. And do you actually believe Iran wishes to turn their country into a parking by using a nuclear tipped missile on anyone? So once again you’re left with exaggerations of Iran’s capabilities, or motives, in order to deny the fact that they are very containable and not a threat to our security or any other country, including Israel, in their region.
Using. a nuclear cover,Iran will wage a multiyear war of attrition against Israel,hoping that people will just run away. Iran has ten times the numbers of people. A country that has murdered 30,000 dissidents, and used its little boys as minefield exploders, will do much worse to people they vicerallly hate.
All the while the US sits idly by. And please post some links with your bullsh*t.
Was it 1792 or was it 1799 the last time an Iranian or Persian army invaded another country? To tell the truth, I forget, which date is correct, myself.
Odd behavior for a “terrorist army” not to invade and terrorize, but something something muh freedom!
What is Iran doing in Yemen-invasion by proxy. What is the purpose of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria-peace ? What is Iran currently doing in Iraq-invasion by proxy. How many US soldiers have been killed by Iranian proxy Shiite militias?
Someone from our side should be begging Iran to tell us how they support all those groups while being sanctioned into economic misery through our “maximm pressure campaign” that your fellow neocons say is working famously.
1.I despise the neocons that got us into the wasteful Iraq war, causing untold misery for the Iraqi people and our troops.
2.The USSR kept its people poor, but maintained mighty military and secret police forces. Same with Iran.
3.Iranian oil revenues go to war preparation sand malignant meddling, rather than calories for its own poor people..
1.The same neocons are clamoring for war with Iran and you are with them. Ditto for the sanctions. You don’t lose your card that easy.
2. Iran must be keeping their “mighty” military well hidden. And I mean WELL hidden. That’s quite the stretch.
3. They were doing this when their oil revenue had been slashed to damn near nothing. But to have a “mighty military and secret police forces” like the USSR, and have proxies spread out over the entire region they would have to have an economy much larger than they have, or ever had. More exaggerations.
conscript armies work cheap
In other words, you have no reply.
Israel has a conscript army. Why so expensive?
You make that word “proxy” do a lot of work. As if anyone who sympathized with Iran or who Iran sympathized with was a part of the Republic.
Meanwhile, look to the lumberyard in your own eye. Like “why are American soldiers getting killed by so-called Iranian ‘proxies’ in the first place? Because they invaded Iraq on the basis of lies, that’s why.”
How about irregular armies, guerilla armies
Read what I wrote previously. “As if anyone who sympathized with Iran or who Iran sympathized with was a part of the Republic.”
Pro tip: how can the Houthis “invade” Yemen, the country where they are the natives? It’s as absurd as claiming that the Sioux “invaded” the United States. Similarly, there have been Shia in Iraq for as long as there have been Shia anywhere. Americans, not so much, until the United States invaded on a pretext based on lies.
“The new president of Iran was a serial torturer and human rights abuser.”
Rouhani is hardly “new,” and his successor hasn’t been elected yet.
“[Iran] maintains the worlds largest terrorist army.”
14th largest, actually (after North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Russia, China, the United States, Brazil, Taiwan, Egypt, Cuba, Ukraine, and Indonesia).
OK-check out Irans Chief justice Ebrahim Raisi article by Jim Phillips at the Heritage foundation-it is expected her will assume power in a month or so.
And it was expected last October that Joe Biden would be elected in November and assume power in January. But until he did, he hadn’t.
Furthermore, if the next president of Iran is a “hard-liner,” that will at least partly be because the US and Israel have done their damnedest to keep the “hard-liners” in power in Iran for 40 years now.
One can be a hardliner and have some trace sof humanity;not with these guys.
The standard exaggeration. Iran’s hardliners are Turban wearing bearded Muslims with a snarl on their face and a knife between their teeth. While the hardliners in Israel are swell fellas that let you know they are going to blow up your home in 15 minutes with precision guided missiles supplied by the superpower on the other side of the planet.
Since it is you who are bringing up stereotypes, google Iran+antisemitic cartoons-theirs is a state controlled press.
Oh, and by the way. tell me why a country of 8 million people would pick on a country of 80 million-makes no sense to anyone with half a brain.
Oh, and by the way,people laughed at a funny little man with a funny little moustache who barked alot.
Yes, I brought up stereotypes to point out your exaggerations. Are you that dense? And the Israelis do their own hate filled sh*t:
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/06/death-to-arabs-israeli-flag-march-features-racist-anti-palestinian-chants/
Among the chants that were reported were “Death to Arabs,” “may your village burn,” and “a second Nakba is coming,” referring to the nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, when thousands of Palestinians were massacred by Zionist militias and over 750,000 were forcibly expelled from their homes in 1948.
And if you can’t figure out why a pipsqueak country of 8 million would pick a fight with a country of 80 million while the superpower with 330 million promises “unwavering” and “ironclad” support then you are really stupid. Not to mention a couple hundred nukes with the promise to take out the world if they’re on the verge of being destroyed.
There is No deal….!
We know the neocons are weasels, nothing they say is reliable. I hope Rouhani isn’t gaming it for the election. But, there’s no way of telling until we see the details, …???
Biden wants a deal and needs the credibility for the next election Iran wants a deal as well so this does seem to be a match made in heaven for negotiators.
The US Congress will try to do all possible to cause trouble but their benefactor AIPAC seems to have lost this round.
I don’t believe a word of it.
Front man Biden is run by Neocons. Neocons are led by globalist, exceptionalist, ethnic war-mongers who want Iran destroyed. They have the same goal as Pompeo, Bolton, et al — a very low bar — they’re just not as overtly psychopathic. And while Netanyahu is gone, his replacement though perhaps subtler, will be no “kinder and gentler”, so Israel will remain committed to the destruction of Iran.
I suspect the reasoning here is to gull the American and Iranian peoples into believing in a positive outcome so that (1) the Iranian hard-liners don’t win in the upcoming election, and that (2) the Americans think that they are getting the Democrat-promised, anti-Trump return to the “Iran Deal”. Meanwhile, behind the smokescreen, the reality of the Wolfowitz Doctrine and Oded Yinon Plan will continue.
Don’t be gulled. America is Israel’s stooge. By deception we/they do war.
Not sure the neocons don’t want the hardliners to win. Makes it easier. Not sure the Americans want a return to the deal. Maybe the Americans here but reading other comment sections leads me to believe the neocons have plenty of company. And you know it’s a bipartisan hate fest.