Another week begins in the Vienna talks aimed at restoring the Iran nuclear deal, and signs that even the optimistic Iran is starting to lose faith in the process, and wonder if a deal will ever get done.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying they’re no longer sure a deal will be made at all, cautioning that more than one issue is yet to be resolved. They did not specify what those issues are.
Notably, they still see the US as the primary obstacle to this deal, saying they’re unsure if the US has the will to get the deal done at all. This has been an ongoing concern, irrespective of the issues to be resolved.
Previously, Iranian officials had indicated that they considered the negotiations to be resolved, and were just waiting on the US to make a “political decision.” The waiting, it seems, is not over.
“Iran Questions If US Has Will To Finish Nuclear Deal”
Wrong question.
Iran should ask when will the Zionist lobby stop controlling US Mid East policy?
Well said, Sky. I have a feeling that this would have been a done deal months ago but for Israhell’s meddling.
But…what the fuck is new…?
Obviously Israeli meddling is not a small factor.
But the US has been at de facto war with Iran since 1979 and if Israel stopped meddling yesterday morning there would still be substantial pressure within the US to keep it that way.
Very possible, Thomas. Very possible.
As you said with a slight Correction, there are Two Israels: (1) The country of Israel in the middle east, and (2) The US Proxy of Israel that lives in the Congress…!
Israel was helping Iran in the 1980s, with US approval:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_relations#Israeli_logistical_support_for_Iran_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War_(1980%E2%80%9388)
What made the Israel-Iran relations go sour after that?
The US was in a actual state of war with the PRC in Korea. But once Nixon found the vision and courage to stand up to the China Lobby, the US fashioned a more pragmatic China policy that under Carter eventually recognized the de facto government of 1.5 billion people and kicked Taiwan off the UN Security Council. So pragmatism can overcome ideological grudges.
Following the 1967 war Israel rebooted its US lobby and pivoted from primarily depending on support from the American Left to building ties with the Republicans and the Evangelical Right. Instead of being a left wing cause, Zionism dug deep roots into both parties . Since the 1973 OPEC oil embargo the US has followed a middle-East foreign policy that places the interest of Israeli expansionists ahead of US national self-interest. There are diehards who remember the Iranian hostage crisis. Same as Korean War veterans who fought the Chinese. But when pragmatism prevails, the USA repeatedly forgives its enemies and makes them trading partners and even allies. Pragmatists in the US and Iran would have buried the hatchet long ago if the US political class was not committed to the preservation and expansion of the Zionist colonizing enterprise.
Rather a perverse way of putting it. Iran was conquered, colonized, and looted from 1955 to ’79, when they gained their formal independence; but still had to fight a bloody war against the US/Iraq for another decade, and winning that a US economic war to this day.
When it comes to Will Power US has lots of it, but it uses it to Cheat, Lie and Steal…!
Iran no longer sure a deal will be made at all…
according to the Times Of Israel dot com
Perhaps the issue has already been addressed. But, given that the former guy demonstrated to Iran and all of the other signatories of the JCPOA that the US cannot be trusted to honor its agreements, I would think that Iran would place considerable emphasis on guarantees a new agreement will survive after Biden is gone.
Duane, that depends upon whom Israhell puts in the White House.
“that more than one issue is yet to be resolved.”
And yet for MONTHS we’ve been told here that there was just “one more thing” to be agreed on. In reality, it seems most of the core issues that Iran wanted resolved have not been resolved…ever.
The coverage of this debacle has been a bad joke.