Reports out of the Vienna talks have gone from pessimistic to defeatist in recent days, with Western officials suggesting they aren’t ready to declare talks “dead” but also don’t expect anything more to come out of them.
But the talks aren’t dead yet, and Iran wants to reiterate that fact. The Iranian diplomats say that messages are still being exchanged with the US, and that the indirect talks are proceeding as they were, if not going very fast.
Iranian officials are shaping this matter as requiring the current US government to take political initiative to get things going again. There hasn’t, by all indications, been much movement in a solid seven weeks.
One of the last issues to emerge was the issue of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps being removed from a terror blacklist. The US refused to do this, and suggested that Iran would need to offer extra concessions for it. Such a move was seen as politically risky for Biden, and since the refusal the US seems to have just sat on the talks.
US Republicans seem to prefer to let the matter just die, with Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) condemning Iran’s “terrorist policies” and saying that no US president after Biden would honor the deal anyhow.
Whether that’s true or not remains to be seen, but that’s been a serious concern of Iran’s and Sen. Young, in telling that to the Iranian press, is clearly trying to damage the process.
America’s trustworthiness questions aren’t lost on anyone, and it’s a point Iran has emphasized repeatedly during the talks in trying to get the US to reverse the dishonoring of the pact.
The Iranians need to save face and declare the “deal” finito themselves.
Trade with Russia, trade with China…your allies.
F*ck Amerikkka and its so-called “promises”. They aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.
And go right ahead and continue enriching your uranium. No one, especially Amerikkka and IsraHell, has the right to dictate whether or not you can retain nuclear weapons for your self-preservation. You are the oldest civilization in the world.
Day-um, I should be a diplomat! 😁
The big issue is whether banks and businesses elsewhere dare to eff Uncle Sam.
This cat-and-mouse game with Iran is not new. It has happened before several times and every time Iran has outlasted and out-dueled us. Like before it is US elections which determine what happens. President Biden and the Democratic candidates this year and in 2024 cannot afford to be accused of giving “the kitchen sink away”.
It’s funny that Todd Young and Chuck Grassley have introduced legislation “to shine a light on efforts by foreign interests to influence American policy and public opinion”.
Like the nation whose main lobby group AIPAC for the first time in February 2022 gave direct campaign contributions rather than directing members, with the top three recipients being John Hoeven, Henry Cuellar and Todd Young?
The nation with the most influential lobby group in Washington, which “always gets what it wants”, thanks to the media bosses always backing them up and targeting any critics?
The nation that made the U.S. sanction Iran because of their support for the Palestinians?
In spite of all the hard work of negotiators, who have been negotiating for years, the United States has not found a way to do what it had agreed to, even though doing so would require it to do nothing.