On Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Iran of not taking renewed negotiations to revive the nuclear deal seriously. The talks in Vienna ended on Friday after five days and are expected to reconvene next week.
EU diplomat Enrique Mora, who is brokering the negotiations, said the talks were paused so the envoys in Vienna could go back to their capitals for consultations, but Blinken is blaming the pause on Iran.
“What we’ve seen in the last couple of days is that Iran right now does not seem to be serious about doing what’s necessary to return to compliance, which is why we ended this round of talks in Vienna,” Blinken said. “We’re going to be consulting very closely and carefully with all of our partners in the process itself … and we will see if Iran has any interest in engaging seriously.”
Blinken also said if the talks fail, the US would “pursue other options.” He didn’t specify what those options entail but has previously not ruled out military action against Iran as an option if the JCPOA isn’t revived.
The US and the European countries involved in the talks want Iran to accept the sanctions relief offered in a draft deal during earlier negotiations that concluded in June. But since no agreement was reached, Iran’s stance is that everything is still up for negotiation, and the new government of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi likely wants more sanctions relief.
On Thursday, Iran presented two draft deals that cover the lifting of sanctions and Iran’s nuclear commitments. According to an Al Jazeera report, the proposals were built on the progress made during earlier negotiations, but certain elements are new and need to be worked out.
What Blinken wants is for Iran to agree to limited sanctions relief likely without any guarantees that the US wouldn’t withdraw from the JCPOA again. Despite how Blinken portrays the situation, if Iran gives in and agrees to the US demands, it would be a major concession and ultimately would be a bad deal for Tehran.
The Iranian side also has good reasons to doubt that the US is serious about the negotiations. Leading up to the talks, the US imposed new sanctions on Iran, issued threats, and has been coordinating closely with Israel on the issue. On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet told Blinken that the US should “immediately” end the negotiations.
Blinken Admits U.S. Is Not Serious About Reviving the Nuclear Deal
Knew it all along. Zionists will wreck whatever is called “negotiations’. In case, even if Iran concedes, Zionists will go after Iran under some pretext or other. American should be reconciled to the fact and be prepared to send their boys and girls to fight and die for Zionists.
Meanwhile,Iranian agents were foiled in their attempt to harm two jewish businessmen in columbia-note their targeting was due to the fact that they were JEWISH they were not, not Israelis.
Iran has no desire or objective to target Jews. Furthermore Jews practice freely in Iran, and have their own Temples. Zionists on the the other hand are a mere extension of the KKK in every regard, and deserve to be punished at every turn.
How ludicrous to pick a tiny item while Israel claims all Jews are invited to live there.
New potus, same thuggish state, same old, same old, divert the blame to someone else.
Amerika keeps moving the goal post and Iran is at fault? WTF
Israel is the problem in the Middle East not Iran. Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons. Iran has zero.
Your congressional bagman for the Israel Lobby just may be severely punished for your remarks about of Israel’s worst kept secret nuclear weapons policy aka “nuclear weapons for me but not for thee”
Israel should have nukes.
And why is that? it pretends not to have them and is always threatening others.
My life is so much better after I blocked jake. Everyone should try it. Not that he doesn’t have a right to write his stupid opinion, I also have a right to not read it.
That is the reason that Iran needs nukes. Egypt too. Israel is rogue and has them.
As they should have!
Israel should be defanged and neutered since it is a danger to everyone, including Jews.
If Zionist Blinken is serious, which he is not, he should rejoin the talks unconditionally revoking all the sanctions Zionists imposed after quitting the deal
Looks like the biden brain trust (the new “best and brightest”) is deciding to toe the empire line here. I thought the idea was to pivot to Asia, to get ourself out of these endless ME entanglements? We can’t afford this sh_t anymore … No?
The important thing is going to be Russia and China’s reactions. Without them, no SC resolutions will be possible. And they really don’t like us right now, do they?
I certainly don’t blame them for disliking self-righteous Crusaders.
Blinken is really trying to unseat some seriously sick individuals and put himself at the top of the list as the worst SOS in my lifetime.
Excellent point. What else can one say when he’s just trying to put a measured face on John Bolton’s policies?
Blinken’s blustering shows how weak Biden’s domestic approval has become.
it`s the Americans who refuseing to negoitiate , they want Iran to roll over to Us demands , remember US Deplomacy consists of 6 words , Do As We Say Or Else .
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!
Blinken has turned out to be a worse war pig than one would have expected from a moderate Democratic presidential cabinet. Pray for him to be struck blind by a light from heaven.
Hasn’t gone that far yet, I’m still holding out hope that they’ll find some way to accept Iran’s demands.
What a stupid thing to say. Of course they are. THEY WANT SANCTIONS RELIEF! That is their completely reasonable demand for the progression of the deal’s reinstatement, and which they should have gotten via Executive Order on Biden’s first day because this is, after all, the fault of the United States breaking the deal. This is so stupid. Had the sanctions been lifted, the hardliners would not have won in May and Iranian enrichment activity would by this point be greatly reduced and still declining. And then there is the pesky fact that Iran’s nuclear program has NO MILITARY DIMENSION and more likely than not, never had one since the Revolution, though there were dissenting Ayatollahs and military leaders. So this whole concern about preventing Iran from getting nukes is based on fiction.
And still the hardliners have come back to the table, for two reasons. First, the sanctions are horrible and cause real suffering, and second, because for the hardliners to regain the sanctions relief reformists lost would be a potent political humiliation. This was and remains an easy Trumpian mess to fix.
If Iran is not serious, it is because they gave up.
They gave up because Blinken and Biden were not serious.
There was no path to a Deal, only to give in to Trump’s concept of total surrender without even relief of sanctions. Of course they won’t do that.
They took back their offers, because they were offered nothing in return.
https://theduran.com/how-israels-actions-against-iran-are-rooted-in-cecil-rhodess-1877-plan/
Israel’s Actions Against Iran Are Rooted in Cecil Rhodes.
It is rooting ingoing home and not allowing themselves to take any more trash.
I think the phrasing Blinken is desperately searching for is, “Iran doesn’t want to accept our ridiculous terms and we’re mad about that.” At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Iran ups the ante by declaring no deal if all sanctions aren’t lifted by January 1st. Tehran has suffered the fools in Washington long enough; maybe its time for others to start drawing lines in the sand for us to ponder.
The problem is, Iran is still in the position of giving away something that they weren’t interested in having in the first place, and likely wouldn’t pursue even if they left the NPT in protest. The whole thing is farcical.
Translate: Israel not interested in negotiations with Iran. They said so. Issued message to the whole world, Done.
Since all of the sanctions are illegal, cruel and based only on the US perception that is obeys no laws unless it is in charge, why on earth would Iran even be engaging in them. LIFT the sanctions as Iran has asked all along. The USA withdrew from the JCPOA.
When will someone blow a raspberry at yank officials when they come out with disingenuous bs like this? This sort of endless cr..p corrodes the brain of its speakers and causes Havana Syndrome.