French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian sounded upbeat on the Iran talks earlier this week, saying they are on a “positive path.” Tuesday, he was very pessimistic, saying the talks are far from a deal to revive the nuclear pact.
Le Drian says the talks are “too slow” and jeopardize the chances of finding a mutually acceptable solution. Progress is coming, but slowly.
It would be ideal for everyone to make a quick, straightforward deal now that the talks have resumed. It’s not clear what is holding them up, but Iran wants assurances of the US abiding by the deal this time.
US officials have said they might not be able to make such a guarantee, whereas Iran has insisted that’s one of their key issues, inasmuch as the US didn’t abide by the deal in 2015, and then withdrew unilaterally a few years later.
He must have got the memo late. How dare him say talks were on a “positive path”.
Why wouldn’t France propose the same deal that they approved a few years ago?
File under “Duh!”
The answer is simple. Draw out the original agreement, the one Trump abandoned, everyone sign, then move on. All this “negotiation” is subterfuge.
“It’s not clear what is holding them up”
Uh, yeah, it is. It’s called the US.
Iran won’t sign up for the original deal because that deal was abrogated by the US. The US won’t sign up for the new deal because it requires guarantees by the US, which the US doesn’t want to agree to – and couldn’t get past Congress even if Biden did – which he doesn’t.
Not to mention that if the US lifts all the sanctions on Iran, Iran becomes an economic powerhouse in the Middle East and that terrifies the US and Israel and Saudi Arabia and all the other US puppet states in the Middle East.
The talks are a doomed farce.