As the US is considering Iran’s response to an EU proposal to revive the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, The Cradle reported on Thursday the details of the agreement Tehran put forward.
The Cradle report cited an unnamed Iranian source who said that the deal includes comprehensive sanctions relief for Iran and a series of measures meant to deter the US from withdrawing from the agreement in the future.
Iran has to shut down some centrifuges to bring its nuclear program back into the limits of the JCPOA. The source said that the centrifuges will be left in a state such that if the US pulls out of the deal again, the centrifuges could be restarted within a year.
“The platforms of the centrifuges will not be destroyed and their connections and electricity are collected, which brings our rebuildability to under one year and is a kind of guarantee,” the source said.
The source said that altogether, there are 21 guarantees written into the deal to alleviate Iran’s concerns about the US withdrawing from the agreement. Under one guarantee, if the US leaves the deal, there will be a three-year and one-month grace period during which foreign companies will be unaffected by sanctions.
It’s not clear if any guarantees that are reliant on US action would be enforceable on a future administration. Since the JCPOA is not a treaty, the next administration will not be bound by the agreement, and that issue has been a significant factor in the talks between the US and Iran.
During earlier negotiations in 2021, when the two sides were close to a deal, Iran wanted President Biden to give a guarantee that the US would stay in the agreement just for his term in office, but he refused, and the talks stalled.
According to The Cradle report, the ball is once again in Washington’s court. If the US approves the deal, its implementation will take place in stages. The first step would be the signing of the agreement in Vienna. Then, the US would cancel three executive orders signed by President Trump that withdrew the US from the JCPOA.
Iran would then have 60 days to test the sanctions relief by selling oil to Western countries and accessing Iranian funds that were frozen overseas. Sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will remain in place, although some will be eased by allowing Western business with Iranian companies that make “transactions” with the IRGC.
The Iranian government declined to verify the details of The Cradle report, but Iranian media has said the main outstanding issue with the US was over “guaranteeing the continuation” of the JCPOA.
It’s not clear when the US will respond to Iran’s proposal, and the Biden administration is coming under pressure from Israel and Iran hawks in Washington to scrap the negotiations altogether.
US is not deal capable no matter what party governs…!
You got it in one
It’s funny to think Biden was Obama’ vice president..The JCPOA was one of Obama’s signature achievements and all credits to him a good treaty. Biden made restoring the JCPOA a campaign promise and here he is no different from the Trump hawks, lifelong creatures of the political swamp.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if all of the original parties except the US signed the new agreements and refused to comply with the Trump/Biden sanctions?
Glad you see both sides are really just one side re. foreign policy. Most Americans are still stuck in their either/or mentality, like, my party is righteous and your party is evil and are blind to the reality that both parties are driven by whoever donates the most money to their campaigns.
Thank you for pointing out the most damaging aspect of our political culture. We are a country of passionate cheerleaders for one party or another. In Europe, because of multiparty systems — there was a need to reengineer voting patterns, Thus Greens are created, and they have nothing to do with environment and everything with supporting global imperial elite. It is agressive foreign policy Greens are showering with greenbucks.
And the reasin for pushing Green in lazy, complaced populace is to stamp out deadly “populism”. And to make sure lazy podcast readers think they are doing something “socially responsible.” For example like getting us into nuclear war. Can irony be greater.
The irony goes on and multiplies every day.
This is just a waste of time. The US has NEVER kept even one of the treaties it has entered into starting from the ones it made with the NATIVE AMERICANS.
I know this is NOT a treaty so there is much LESS chance of it being respected by the USA.
I aghree, the US is a rogue state which imposes sanctions on countries at will.
Hypothetically speaking,let’s say Russian and Chinese collaboration to get rid of (extermination)the certain Rogue country, wouldn’t be great service for humanity?
That’s hypothetical question and no need to respond,
But there’s a lot of pressure to increase the world oil supply.
The US has very occasionally honored treaty commitments. For example, it has kept the Canadian border and Great Lakes demilitarized, under the Rush–Bagot Treaty of 1817.
It has been extremely rare. Why a very few actually were honored while everything else was disregarded is a subject worth closer study. Entitlement meets deterrence is the basic idea.
Wash. will make a verbal agreement, and then, like Russia and NATO, said it’s not put down in writing and official policy. I find it amazing that Americans still think the gov., no matter which party is in control, has their interests at heart. The interests and what Wash. considers ‘Americans’ are simply their campaign donors, from corps. to Zionist Israel and AIPAC. One nation under the Almighty Dollar!
and there it is = one sentence literally defining uncle sam from the very first moment of uncle sam’s inception. i don’t know who you are but you freakin nailed it with one sentence.
now i will retire from the internet.
Doesn’t that make us rather proficient?… At ineptitude anyway…
It has been a spiral of ever increasing sanction ideas. Like the Cold War, it is an idea that was embraced and just exploded as the all purpose solution applicable to everything.
Circus, circus…
Let’s hope they can land this plane.
Find a parachute. No, they can’t land it. Maybe someone could, maybe, but not them.
Specifically, they wanted assurance that Biden would not simply re-impose the same sanctions “for other reasons” such as “malign behavior” and give them nothing for their agreement on nuclear matters.
Biden Admin frankly admitted they meant to do exactly that, could not be trusted, and were incapable of doing any deal.
That’s a laugh. Wash. will never approve any policy besides attacking Iran for their oil and to make the world safe for Zionist atrocities in the middle east and Zionist control of Wash.
JCPOA has been voted in by UN Securiry Council as a Resolution. With all three NATO members of UN SC voting for.
It is really not true that it is not a treaty. UN resolutiins need no ratificatiin, they are automatically on that level. US had the opportunity snd right to veto the resolution. But it voted for it. The only reason it was enshrined in UN SCR — to prevent US from unilatereally getting out of it or ignoring provisions. US — that is Obama and Buden entered into it in bad faith.
Right now, Iran has no reasons to accept less than what is now minimum.
Just get the bombing over with.
And then what…?!