Iran’s elections have come and gone, and Ebrahim Raisi is now the president-elect. The conservative Raisi may be a more difficult partner to negotiate the Iran nuclear deal with, but outgoing FM Javad Zarif suggests that there is a good possibility that a nuclear deal could still be made before Raisi takes office.
Deputy FM Abbas Araghchi, in Vienna for the ongoing talks, says the deal is “closer than ever,” and that the US needs to make some decisions to get it done. The outgoing Rouhani government staked a lot on the deal, and is keen to salvage it for their legacy.
Iran’s position stands in stark contrast to IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, who suggested the world should wait for the new government to try to make a deal. This suggestion was made even though talks were ongoing, and the next government was expected to be less inclined toward compromise.
The power change could be a hassle in some cases, though Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei will have the final say either way, and if he signs off on a deal, there is no real possibility that Raisi would try to back out of it.
The US seems to be pursuing the deal at any rate, and while complaining about the Iranian election, will continue to work on a deal with the Rouhani government, which by all indications is close at hand.
“The US seems to be pursuing the deal at any rate,….”
The problem is there seems to be 2 “Washingtons”, one Zionist and the other American, one “regime change” and the other “get a deal and pivot to China”.
Thee Zionist Washington is in charge.
I agree, but the old regime, John Kerry State Dept. types can still show some life.
They are both the sides of the same coin…!
Washington: just take a deep breath and do the right thing for once……
Trump was only a major embarrassment and misstep.
https://journal-neo.org/2021/06/21/after-a-long-period-in-the-wilderness-things-are-looking-up-for-iran/
Are things looking up for Iran?
These deliberations might be more complex than meets the eye if consideration is given to US forces and proxies in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan.
The Iranians have long ascertained the Israeli virus has infected the other P5+1 members, so they’re walking a difficult line. One could determine OPEC has had some influence throughout and that the world well knows the US isn’t the world’s top energy exporter.
I digress, but one could expound ad nauseum on Israel’s nuclear weapons program, but that seems a non-starter, alongside Israeli settlers capturing Palestinians lands.
In other words, rule of law and its observance is as irrelevant in Israel as in America.
Ultimately, President Biden ought to consider low priced oil as a viable way to maintain the American economy amidst calls for bailing Big Oil through market manipulations and pacifying and the green climate lobby. With inflationary forces upon most countries, debt-ridden consumers can only avail so much toward higher gas prices before they change habits. Those might include quitting jobs with lengthy commutes.
It’s all interrelated, as would be global peace, if Washington ever made serious advances toward such ends.
It starts and ends with the US-Israel relationship.
And poor innocent Iran is in the process of installing a new president with the blood of 30,000 murdered dissidents and how many US servicemen killed in Iraq.