Iranian officials rarely appear in a rush in the ongoing Vienna talks, but today have called for “urgent” new meetings to revive the process, saying it is time to decide on face-to-face meetings.
That’s a step forward in the process, as most of the talks have been indirect, with EU moderators trying to keep everything moving. Talks have been stagnant for several weeks now.
It may be that talk of Biden holding Iran talks during an Israel visit in the months to come has Iran feeling that the US is slowing things to a halt, and they may want to force more progress in talks that by all indications are virtually done.
Israel has been trying to slow things down, and if the Biden Administration has been slowed by an invitation, Iran is virtually obliged to try to counter that with a push to make things happen.
Biden is not going to give the GOP an easy attack before the 2022 elections. Ergo, nothing will happen.
When regular is $8 a gallon, products based on wheat are up 300% (same for fertilizer), the FED has raised interest rates which will affect the economy, we head into stagflation, voters will take notice. I predict a sh*t storm for Democrats come November, 2022. The GOP being in favor of the obscene transfer of wealth to the MIC will not matter. Voters will react to issues they can understand, like, cereal being $6 per box of Cheerios. A flat of eggs being $20.
US Foreign Policy is fascinating! How slow can it go?! Israel and Iran have something in common, both countries names start with ‘I’…. That is where it ends. Israel is at the head of the line, which puts Iran way down the list…
Bye-Done needs some motivation!
Perhaps if Iran could produce a prophet or something?…. Give it a go!
Israel will probably get its way
The US will lose even more stature globally
Iran should move on as they do not have a partner for peace.
With the NATO engineered fiasco in the Ukraine disrupting global commerce Iran may have new customers for its energy
I think the real hold up is that the US wants Iran to sell its oil in USD and Iran is digging in its heels. Iran was between 2002 and 2010 selling it oil in Euros and also starting an oil bourse. This is the real problem the US has with Iran. De-dollarizing would help the demise of the petrodollar, the grip of the US and the “international rules based order” aka the US dictated international rules based order. Since the US cut Iran out of the SWIFT system, Iran has figured out how to sell its oil which it is doing and its oil sales are NOT in USD.
Iran cannot sell its oil in US Dollar because of the SWIFT ban…! Unless, The ban is lifted by US which is doubtful…!
Iran can sell its oil in what ever currency the other country offers and no she definitely would not use USD. SWIFT is only one messaging system available to her. There are others developed by Russia and China in use today. However the SWIFT ban is meaningless as Iran was not using USD in the 2000s never mind wanting to now. The US and its poodles in the EU/NATO are so desperate to cancel Russian oil and gas that allowing Iran to use SWIFT would not be an issue for them. I suspect that Iran is not going to take the SWIFT bait anytime soon as using USD is never going to be a currency she uses.