The Iranian Foreign Ministry said Monday that Tehran would not resume negotiations on the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, “under pressure” from the US.
“American officials know that the Islamic Republic of Iran, under pressures and threats, is not willing to negotiate or make concessions,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said, according to the Iranian news agency MEHR.
Since JCPOA negotiations fell apart, the US has ramped up the so-called “maximum pressure campaign” against Iran by increasing sanctions. The US has also expressed support for protesters inside the country and participated in drills with Israel simulating attacks on the Islamic Republic.
Kanaani said that Iran is still dedicated to implementing the JCPOA and pointed out that it was the US that withdrew from the deal in 2018. He said that the European signatories — France, Germany, and Britain — have not done enough to offset US sanctions.
Robert Malley, President Biden’s special envoy for Iran, reaffirmed on Saturday that the administration is not interested in reviving the nuclear deal at this point. He said the US focus is on Iran’s alleged military support for Russia and how to support Iranian protesters.
“Right now, we can make a difference in trying to deter and disrupt the provision of weapons to Russia and trying to support the fundamental aspirations of the Iranian people,” Malley said.
In an interview with Foreign Policy last week, Malley said the US was supporting the Iranian protesters by “mobilizing international attention and putting the spotlight on what’s happening in Iran.”
He said the US is making sure “that Iranians have the ability to express themselves, to share through social media information with each other and with the outside world, by sanctioning those up and down the chain in Iran.”
Malley also said that the US would resort to a “military option” as a last resort to stop Iran’s nuclear advances, although the Pentagon recently acknowledged in its nuclear Posture Review that Iran is not trying to build a nuclear weapon.
This is a huge mess in the making and we seem to lack clarity and perhaps integrity with regard to our approach… It will be interesting to see how this continues to develop and I also must wonder what other hands are involved in this process… Makes me wonder if we would have taken this kind of approach with regard to Israel and their developments in their nuclear capacity…Apparently not…
AFAICS there are two states which have no compunctions whatsoever about screwing with the lives of people in other countries – the USA and the Brits.
Another one comes to mind immediately. They’re attached to the underbelly of the US.
The U.S. wins a blue ribbon for arrogance. We flip ove a table and storm out of the JCPOA and expect Iran to come crawling back to it by making unilateral concessions.
I have come to despise what passes for government in DC – with an important exception – all the honest, hard working civil servants who get up every day and go to work for the American people. The leadership class? Worthless and dangerous.
Wasn’t one of ByeDone’s campaign promises to return to the JCPOA that Trump trashed?
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Or in ByeDone’s case, his Depends are on fire.
The US has no intention to negotiate anything, they never do.
They want to justify savage sanctions against the population actually as brutal as any war but it is legal when western nations do it. Sanctions are “moral” wars, starving people is more moral than bombs and bullets. But the Americans are always morally justified, they annihilate nations out of kindness to bring them freedom and democracy, even if it kills them.
Amen to this. They want to destroy the government of Iran and turn it into an impotent vassal state for their friends and political sponsors from Tel Aviv.
If the US regime wanted to destroy the government of Iran, they could do that in short order by lifting all sanctions and making sure the Iranian people knew that it was Tehran, not Washington, making it difficult for them to export their products and import western products.
The US regime is the mullahs’ best friend. It wants them in power, largely as an excuse to keep Iranian oil out of many markets and prop up the price of US oil.
Ref 1st paragraph; I have always stated this about Cuba but never thought of it that way about Iran. Interesting point that deserves dissemination/seed planting in DC.
But your first paragraph would mean Iran would eventually become a competitor of Israel for regional hegemony. Can’t have that. So, it’s either a subservient state with a handpicked puppet or a fractured shithole.
Sure Thomas. You keep right on believing that. After all, we’re the folks who gave them the Shah and SAVAK.
Same shit, different day. It is all the US has. It is all the US is.
SSDD. It is all the US has. It is all the US is.
(The second D is apparently a naughty word – god, is Disqus ever a joke)
I’ve been waiting for this showdown since my 20’s.
This deal is over, in my opinion. Trump F that up and Iranians aren’t acting like they care about it much.
Wrong. They care about it. Problem is that even if the deal were renegotiated, the US would at some point reimpose sanctions in order to try to bring about a regime change, and if the Iranians countered by leaving the P5+1, the Americans would help the Israelis attack and destroy Iranian infrastructure and the world would, as usual and expected, watch helplessly.
This isn’t rocket science, once you abandon the fantasy that the USA is a champion of global freedom.