The JCPOA talks in Vienna resumed Saturday, the sixth round getting under way. Less than a week off from the Iranian presidential election, the push is to try to make a deal with the Rouhani government while it is still in power.
Germany in particular emphasized the need for rapid progress, saying all sides need flexibility and that there is no reason at this point to be playing for time. China’s Ambassador Wang Qun was the most forthcoming on details of where they’re at in talks, saying the major issues are mostly already worked out, and that the real sticking point is the US finally delivering on sanctions relief.
That’s an embarrassing place for the US to be in the talks, as the deal went into effect in 2015 and the US has never made serious efforts to comply with their primary responsibility in the deal. US sanctions and US moves to prevent the other P5+1 from doing business with Iran are the primary reason the nuclear deal is in such trouble in the first place.
EU envoys involved in the talks have expressed optimism that a deal could be made soon, while the US is more pessimistic. Iranian state media has similarly doubted that a deal will be made before the election.
That could be a problem, as the election will likely put a more conservative president in power. This is going to bring mistrust of the US to the fore in Iranian politics again, and the US will likely be vilifying whomever is elected. Either way, Iran and the US will likely be too busy redefining their international narratives to progress the deal.
That is the only place the US has ever been in the talks. The one and only problem has always been the US, and only the US. Everyone else is in full compliance and full agreement for more.
In the last paragraph, it’s not “mistrust”; it’s “distrust” and it’s well-earned … From ’53 to the nuclear deal, the US has not earned any trust by Iran.
For the last 500years the US has never honoured a single treaty. Why should it start now.
The US has not existed for 500 years
The US says “hundred” of sanctions will remain. Congress is against the deal, both sides of the aisle. The propaganda machine’s Iran bashing through our compliant media is relentless. If the deal is revived it has the staying power of a snowball in hell.
Iranian IRBM’s are designed to airburst-meaning designed to deliver nukes.
You seem to be confused as to what “airburst” means.
Please enlighten us then-Nukes are more destructive when detonated above the ground rather than on the ground. WIKI states that the EMAD-1 is more suitable for WMD delivery.
No, nukes aren’t “more destructive” when detonated above the ground than on (or below) the ground. They’re a different KIND of destructive in each case.
And the same is true of other types of weapons. Air burst artillery has been around forever, and missiles with conventional air burst warheads have been in use for decades (Tomahawks can carry air burst war heads, for example).
Air burst is a warhead function, not a missile function as such, and it can be conventional, chemical, biological, or nuclear. The fact that Iran’s IRBMs can carry warheads is completely unsurprising and tells us nothing about whether they have, or are trying to get, nukes.
All they ever wanted was to be able to say “We tried talks and they failed.” Where have we seen this before? The neocons have a very limited repertoire.
I never thought there was a dime’s worth of difference between Biden and Trump, but Biden’s alleged commitment to reviving the JCPOA was one reason I thought there was a penny’s worth of difference. Now, Blinken just looks like Pompeo on a diet, and I feel like a sucker … again.