On Friday, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the Vienna talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal now have a “better atmosphere,” and he thinks an agreement is possible.
“We’re arriving at the end of a long process … there’s a better atmosphere since Christmas — before Christmas, I was very pessimistic. Today I believe reaching an accord is possible,” Borrell said. He added that a deal could be reached in the “coming weeks.”
The eighth round of the Vienna talks is ongoing, and the US and Iran are reportedly at odds over sanctions relief and guarantees and verifications that Tehran is seeking so the US doesn’t leave the deal again. Borrell said he still holds out hope that the JCPOA can still be revived and “function as it did before the American withdrawal.”
Borrell made his comments from France alongside French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who didn’t share the positive attitude of Borrell. Le Drian said the talks are progressing “much too slowly to be able to reach a result.”
Le Drian’s comments echoed the line coming out of Washington. On Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said there were only a “few weeks” left to reach a deal and warned the US was considering “other options” to deal with Iran. Blinken had previously not ruled out military action as an option if the talks fail.
Circus circus…
Borrell said he still holds out hope that the JCPOA can still be revived and “function as it did before the American withdrawal.” ___ It never function correctly even before US withdrawal…!
“We have, I think, a few weeks left to see if we can get back to mutual compliance,” Blinken said in an interview with US public radio station NPR. “We’re very, very short on time,” because “Iran is getting closer and closer to the point where they could produce on very, very short order enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon,” he said.
Blinken is very, very full of shit. And what’s this nonsense about getting back to “mutual compliance”? Wouldn’t that mean at one point the US was in compliance?
According to the top US diplomat, Tehran has made nuclear advances that “will become increasingly hard to reverse because they’re learning things, they’re doing new things as a result of having broken out of their constraints under the agreement.”
What a load. So, is Tony saying they didn’t know how to make a nuke before? What the fuck was there a need for a deal in the first place??
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-only-a-few-weeks-left-to-save-iran-nuclear-deal-were-eyeing-other-options/
I’ve not read a better description of Blinken in a long time, LOL. As you know, the rudiments of nuclear weapon manufacture have long been known by governments all over the world and by many interested laymen, let alone the thousands of scientists, engineers and technologists who’ve worked at weapons complexes over the years. Iran could have made them a long time ago if they’d wanted to, and they have very pointedly said, repeatedly, that it would be an abomination to do so. I’m convinced that the main purpose of the program was only to manufacture medical isotopes, which require 20% enrichment. Well, they have that experience now, thanks to Trump’s withdrawal.
“EU Official Sees ‘Better Atmosphere’ for Iran Talks, Thinks Deal Is Possible.” You have to read the tea leaves. This is about the representative of some unnamed country farting.
A deal is certainly possible if Washington would just promise to honor it.
Isn’t it embarrassing when someone looks you in the eye and says that you have no honor. I don’t think the American “negotiators” even feel it. What good is a promise from someone who has already demonstrated that his promises are worthless?