In a televised speech for Persian New Year, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke favorably about the ongoing nuclear talks. This is a substantial shift, as he had long been pessimistic on the process, and didn’t seem to expect anything to come of it.
Khamenei still spoke of the importance of his alternate track, trying to develop a level of self-sufficiency that Iran wouldn’t have to worry so much about international sanctions in the first place.
That said, Khamenei clearly saw a point to the talks, and to trying to get sanctions relief, saying there is “no problem” with trying to reach such a deal. His support would be a big boost to getting the deal through Iran’s hardliners.
Khamenei originally gave blessing to the negotiation of the process in 2015, while hardline politicians scorned the idea from the start. When the deal weakened, Khamenei backed off his support, leaving it as a deal of the reformist politicians and giving lip-service to the narrative that the US couldn’t be trusted.
Yeah. now all he has to do is get it through the US neocons and then through the US Congress. Good luck with that.
Not to mention Israhell, Richard, the true policymaker of the Disunited States of Amerikkka.
Israel/US congress. Interchangeable.
But not biodegradable…
Depends on how you degrade them…
It may pass the congress, not impossible but probable… If it doesn’t, Iran would be content to benefit from the deal as quickly as possible until the next US president that may or may not tear up the deal…!