The State Department said Monday that the US has not engaged in any discussions on reviving the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, in the latest sign that the crippling economic sanctions on Iran aren’t going anywhere.
“There has been no discussion of resuscitating the JCPOA. That is not on the agenda. It hasn’t been on the agenda when we’ve engaged with partners and it hasn’t been on the agenda when we’ve engaged indirectly with the Iranians,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a press briefing.
US officials have made clear in recent months that they have no intention of trying to revive the JCPOA. In December, footage emerged of President Biden saying the deal was “dead” but that he couldn’t announce it.
Since indirect negotiations between the US and Iran failed last summer, the Biden administration has steadily increased sanctions on Iran, continuing the so-called “maximum pressure campaign.”
The US has also expressed support for protesters inside Iran and increased military cooperation with Israel. The US and Israel recently held their largest-ever joint military exercises over Israel and in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Not long after the drills, Israel launched a drone attack against a military facility inside Iran.
Just add another resource rich country 100% to the BRICS camp, meanwhile Israel and the other cargo-cult nations will stand firmly with the USA.
Of course IsraHell’s going to stand firmly with the United Snakes. Where would they be without their Amerikkkan taxpayer-generated welfare?
It was “on the agenda” when Biden ran for the presidency. So he lied to us?
Dieter, do you mean “he lied to us yet AGAIN?”
How can you say that about our POTUS? /s
There is an immaturity in the US DOS that is remarkable. A diplomatic personnel core is for one purpose to settle disputes through negotiations to maintain peace. It is a humanitarian service intended to block the need to use the military, on the one hand, and to avoid economic manipulations on the other. It is established to save lives and keep peace. Not to change governments, sanction the poor, leverage debt, nor limit trade that causes human suffering. The US DOS has lost its purpose and become a tactical arm of the DOD.
A diplomatic personnel corps is for one purpose: To pursue the perceived interests of the regime it serves.
You might think that national interests would be peaceful resolution as a core interest, and it is what DOS mouths for the media. Unfortunately (w/o irony), I agree with you. And, in this present global condition, the regimes interests are war and profit.
Well, notice that I didn’t refer to national interests, but rather regime interests.
A regime’s interest is, always and every time, the maintenance and expansion of its own power. The only thing that can ever trump that is actual survival, but regimes tend to so closely identify the latter with the former than when the real latter shows up they don’t necessarily realize it.
The Iranian government is snuggling up with Xi…that’s in Iran’s vital interest to do so.
So take THAT and shove it up your ass, Amerikkka!
I love the idea of a Russia-China-Iran block. Who’s seriously gonna f*ck with that?
🇮🇷 🇨🇳🇷🇺