US and European officials are warning that without some urgent progress, it is merely a matter of weeks before the Iran nuclear talks would be declared a failure. Iran has long rejected artificial deadlines on the talks.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says this is a “decisive moment” that will decide whether or not the US can work on returning to the agreement.
The galling part of this is that the US has offered next to nothing to this process, with Iran taking the simplest platform of restoring the 2015 deal and the US actually delivering what it promised but never delivered the first time.
The US has mostly sat stone-faced at the meetings, never offering concrete proposals, and spurning Iran’s suggestion that they’d like to see the US commit to staying in the deal this time around. All the US has done is try to make deadlines, when Iran has nothing to agree to in the talks.
Months of warning that time is almost up is a bad sign on US intentions, and Israel constantly demanding new issues be added to the talks is troubling when they can’t even agree to the terms of a nuclear deal they already agreed to years ago.
And the US-Russia talks are going to end up exactly the same way – but the Russians aren’t going to give the US time to drag those out for months the way Iran did. Iran is patient. Russia usually is, too, but not this time.
“Months of warning that time is almost up”
That and Russia’s imminent invasion of Ukraine has been repeated ad nauseum for much too long. Both bullshit.
Don’t hold back WRU, tell us what you really think! 😉 peace chic
Blah Blah Blah….! As usual…!
In a world where the Euros were not just timid vassals and our media told the truth, this charade would have ended in the first week as the Euros told the US to take a hike and to expect countermeasures if Washington’ creepy Mnuchin tried to penalise Euro companies and nations for continuing to trade.
Israel, will never yield on Iran. They lose too much geopolitically. They have more than enough soft power to stall indefinitely.
Its like Soros and Kiev on the Donbass. They can never drop it; they’ve invested too much in turning Ukraine westwards. They have more than enough soft power to agitate indefinitely.
Tine doesn’t really run out on ‘indefinitely’. They can troll and troll.
The US is looking rather inept… It’s rather like a big Rottweiler with a snappy little dog, Israel, chewing on its (the US) backside…