The White House said Thursday that President Biden wants to have “other available options” against Iran if talks to revive the nuclear deal fail.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that Biden “has conveyed to the rest of the administration that he wants to make sure that we have other available options to us to potentially achieve that solid outcome of the no nuclear weapons capability for Iran.”
The comments come as Israel has been pushing the US to establish a credible military threat against Iran to force Tehran to make concessions. Back in July, Biden said he was willing to use force as a “last resort” against Iran to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
While the US and Israel hype up the idea that Iran seeks a nuclear bomb, there’s no indication Tehran has made that decision or will in the near future. Iran is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Iranian officials recently said that the religious edict, known as a fatwa, against developing weapons of mass destruction is still the government’s policy.
Kirby insisted that Biden was still committed to pursuing diplomacy with Iran but said his patience was “not eternal.” But the Biden administration has signaled that the negotiations with Iran to restore the JCPOA will likely not achieve success as US officials have slammed Tehran’s latest response in the EU-mediated talks.
Israeli media reported this week that the US conveyed to Israel that an agreement with Iran won’t be signed in the “foreseeable future.” In another sign that the JCPOA is doomed, the US Treasury Department announced more sanctions on Iranian companies.
In general, Biden has taken a hardline approach in negotiations with Iran by refusing to lift all Trump-era sanctions and implementing more since he came into office. This forced the two sides to negotiate how many sanctions the US was willing to lift and what level of sanctions relief was sufficient enough for Tehran to sign a deal with Washington.
During negotiations last year, the two sides were close to the agreement, but the talks ultimately failed because Biden refused to guarantee that he would stay in the deal during his term in office.
Last month, as the US and Iran appeared close to a deal, President Biden launched a series of airstrikes in Syria against what the US called “Iran-backed” fighters. Iran denied having ties to the groups the US targeted, but the strikes did their part to escalate tensions in the region.
Other options:
– mind our own goddamned business?
– take our f-ing toys and go home?
– act like a normal country not a world hegemon?
In reality, of course, we can’t do a damned thing about anything here. The era of the US saying jump and countries obeying are long long gone and Russia and China have absolutely NO reason to allow the US to impose anything here. So this is a whole bunch of laughable nonsense meant for home audiences … After all, elections are coming.
I don’t believe that Senile Joe is capable of making a rational decision.
He does make decisions, after he is told what decisions to make.
That’s not decision, rather compliance…!
He is senile and does not know the difference anyway.
Biden knows which side his bread is buttered on (Israel)…
Donna, ByeDone needs to butter his ass in preparation for taking it there again from IsraHell.
Sorry about the visual 😁
I’m still laughing…!
Permanently lubricated…!
Preparation: H!
That much he knows.
Dear Fred:
I’m fine with you not liking a post but I’d prefer it, if you would engage me as to why you don’t like a post…
Keep the conversation going!
next thing you ask for facts, don’t be so rude.
“”pushing the US to establish a credible military threat against Iran””
as if the US doesn’t already have a credible military threat
The JCPOA obviously is being affected by the mid-terms and Biden’s pandering to the lobby. Maybe they can get serious in 2023.
The neocons are going to get serious after the midterms when they can afford gas going through the roof.
That would be too late. Iran has no need of a deal lasting perhaps 18 months, which Biden won’t even promise to live up to for that long.
In reality – the dealbwas never possibe. US wanted essentially a capitulation, Iran does not need West any more. What is REALLY at stake is Middle East. Just like in the conflict with Russia over Ukraine — it is Europe that is the prizze. Not that long time ago Europe was slowly but surely attracted to Eurasian success. Energy from Russia was to double up with Nord Stream II, enough to share with Danmark, UK, France. Regullar freight trains establushed between China, Russia and Germany to land port in Duisburg, cargo then rerouted accross Europe. 5G telecom implemented all over Europe, projects such as majot port modernizations, fasr rail, even joint nuclear power plant in UK. China, Erikssson, etc partneriing. US influence, especially in Germany which is not in debt and has industrial capacities very compatible with Chinese. Germany had many factories in Russia as opposed American McDonalds, Starbucks or Coca Cola.
By pushing the very willing Ukrainian leadership into creating the crisis in Dinbas, thus forcing Russia’s hand — US created conditions for forcing Europe to capitulate, By Europe, I mean chieflly Germany. The deed is done.
But if US thinks it can repeatvit in Middle East — that may be a misculculation. The wild card is Iraq, not Saydis and Gulf. If US can repeat Iran-Iraq war, than the rest of the Gulf, chiefly Saudis, would have to capitulate, just like Germany. Iraq crisis is not anbaccident. US needs a leader that can turn Iraq into Ukraine, willing to fight Iran. Not just Iran. Attacjung Iran would be attackung Russia and China. And give a firm nessage to India.
What is not included into this strategy is — lingvterm cinsequences on individual countries and their willingness to stay committed to such strategy,
And in the Middle East there is no affinity to US as there is still residual trans-Atlantic loyalties.
But hegemon is neither intelligent nor cautious. Itvwants to resuscitate its failung economic model by force. The lessons of history are not in its favor.
Every bombing of Syria, every arrogant demand — all are forming a psychological barrier, an aversion to Westen workd, and makung Putin walk as ten feet tall in Baghdad where his puctures are in cabs. Every arrack in Turkey is just reinforcing an already string anti-Americanism.
Current ruling elite is full of themselves. And do not see how a “victory” over Europe can backfire. And nit to
assume that the rest if the of the world is its oyster.
You have some good ideas about doing bad, I hope the neocons don’t read your posts. But we’ll see if Europe’s capitulation lasts the winter.
“Kirby insisted that Biden was still committed to pursuing diplomacy with Iran but said his patience was ‘not eternal.’”
‘BIDEN WANT…WANT HIT STOOPID EYE-RAN!’ clarified the National Security Council spokesman.
Pretty artless double-speak. But leaves no doubt what they think of the best interest and intelligence of “we the people”.
This is the most transparent build up to a war since the great Yellow Cake Hoax of 2003. Iran has bent themselves up into pretzels trying to please our every psychotic mood swing during these negotiations only to have Biden’s gang of Karen’s gaslight the world into believing that the Mullahs are the unreasonable ones. For once, I agree with them. It is totally unreasonable to continue to make concessions to America’s international terror factory when they have repeatedly made it almost absurdly clear that they seek nothing short putting Iran into a dog kennel while Israel stands by with a loaded shotgun. The hardliners were right. America cannot be trusted. The only peace in the Middle East comes from resistance to the global North who seek to enslave it. Hate to say I told you so but ‘told you so’ I did.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/29/wake-up-stupid-biden-wants-war-with-iran-too/
I really dig the bra you’re wearing! 🙂
If only I could find one that fit that well in real life. Estradiol, work your magic!
Finally! Some honesty in these reports. Those two paragraphs specify what I’ve been saying here for a year and a half – that the two main requirements of the deal for Iran have NOT been agreed to at any time during that year and a half, despite all the “the deal is close” nonsense.
This reveals the fundamental truth: Biden never intended to rejoin the deal but merely use negotiations as a ploy to impose more restrictions on Iran, and when they fail to use that as justification for war. This is the same policy every US President has used since George W. Bush (Obama’s JCPOA was only made for his own ego, since he knew it would be torn up by his successor.)
The inevitable end result of this process will be war, no matter how long it takes to start it. Two countries with this level of enmity have historically eventually gone to war.
I would go farther. The neocon hostility has been implacable since the overthrow of the Shah. Its ferocity began with the proxy war using Saddam Hussein’s forces, followed by the Madelaine Albright’s slaughter of the innocents. And all under barbaric guidance of our greatest friend and ally.
Who does Biden think he is? The hubris the old senile man has is unbelievable.
Why bother with Americans, they are unreliable and change with the wind. They are liars, they can’t be trusted. Agreements are meaningless.
If Biden won’t return to the Deal, then he will have the war that Trump only just barely managed to evade, when Bolton manipulated things to actually have an attack in the air.
The Blob has wanted this. Biden is even more helpless before it than Trump was, which is remarkable, given how useless Trump really was.
It must be added that the war Trump barely managed to evade was instigated by him. Both by his actions and hiring that load of shit Bolton.
Biden is the neocon’s throwaway president and he’s going to bomb Iran. Has Iran proven it isn’t building nuclear weapons? No. Has Iran proven it isn’t going to build nuclear weapons? No. Can you prove a negative? No. Did it matter in Iraq? No. Does it matter now? No. Iran needs to bomb up and test right now. Death is the only language Israel speaks.
I feel like you do Ted but maybe MvGuy is right…
I do not think that it would be very smart for Iran to go BOMB building. It could turn into a disaster over night. Better to let China and Russia tell Israel “Back off from threatening OUR energy source” and how few of their nukes it would take to end their colonialist apartheid project there.
I’m purposely biasing hardline. Iran isn’t going to get out of the neocon’s sights. And I wouldn’t count on China or Russia thwarting the debacle. Oil would go through the roof, Russia would clean up, and America’s global standing would be dead for the foreseeable future. Why stop it?
Like Elvis, Iran may have left the building. Oil exports have been increasing since Iran applied to join BRICS, and I suspect that payment is not being made in dollars. Their recent interest in buying SU-35 aircraft from Russia may also be indicative of a new direction for Iran.
Aircraft, plus s-400 missiles (lots of them) needed. We all know Israel is going to attack Iran. I am wondering what false premise will trigger it.
My concern is that both countries are nuclear…
“U.S. foreign policy,” he said, is
“best defined as follows: kiss my arse or I’ll kick your head in. It is as simple and as crude as that. What is interesting about it is that it’s so incredibly successful. It possesses the structures of disinformation, use of rhetoric, distortion of language, which are very persuasive, but are actually a pack of lies. It is very successful propaganda. They have the money, they have the technology, they have all the means to get away with it, and they do.”
In accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pinter said this:
“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/07/john-pilger-silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works/
Biden is not interested, the Israelis are not interested, wanting other options is just PR, elections are just around the corner. Biden’s other options are made to prevent any negotiations before they even start. They do it all the time, see Ukraine, the same thing.