On Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Iran that talks to revive the nuclear deal “cannot go on indefinitely” and placed the blame for the lack of progress on the Islamic Republic.
“We’re committed to diplomacy, but this process cannot go on indefinitely,” Blinken said during a visit to Kuwait. “We look to see what Iran is ready to do or not ready to do and remain fully prepared to return to Vienna to continue negotiations. The ball remains in Iran’s court.”
The last round of indirect negotiations between the US and Iran concluded on June 20th. They are on pause until President-elect Ebrahim Raisi replaces Iranian President Hassan Rouhani next month. Despite Blinken’s comments, the process has been dragged out because the Biden administration refuses to lift all Trump-era sanctions without getting additional concessions from Iran.
According to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the US wants to add a sentence to the nuclear deal that says it requires the US and Iran to negotiate other issues, like Iran’s ballistic missile program. “By putting this sentence, they want to provide an excuse for their further interventions on the principle of and missile program and regional issues,” Khamenei said on Wednesday.
The Iranian leader also said the US is not willing to provide guarantees for sanctions relief or a guarantee that Washington wouldn’t withdraw from the agreement again, like it did in 2018. “They once violated the nuclear deal at no cost by exiting it. Now they explicitly say that they cannot give guarantees that it would not happen again,” he said.
Regardless of the reality of the situation, the Biden administration will continue to blame Iran. If the negotiations ultimately fail, the US will have Raisi to blame when he becomes president. Raisi is viewed as a hardliner, but he favors a revival of the JCPOA if the US returns to its commitments by lifting sanctions.
Dual Nationals such as Blinken will always have a dual agenda.
You’re right, except that the dominant is demanding total surrender.
just trying to figure out how could it possibly be in America’s interests to go to war with 100 million population Iran especially after our dismal war fighting failures of the last 20 years.
It’s not in America’s interest, … quite the opposite. US foreign policy comes out of Tel Aviv via the Neocons and reinforced by main stream media and AIPAC money … and threats.
Does it begin withe the letter “I”?
No taxpayer funded position should allow hiring dual citizens. But in US the practice is wide-spread. Many other foreign nationals occupy positions where they are able to influence foreign policy and trade, and more fascinating, they are relentless and open in pursuing their agendas. And there are times when an average citizen not in possession of historic perspective, cannot even understand why would some nationals take a particular interest in another nation’s affairs. Good example is a peculiar interest in Ukraine that goes beyond obvious — causing trouble on Russian border. And whenever this us the case, US policy becomes fanatical, loosing out of sight it real value and efficacy.
the Australian rules might be a good guide for us
“According to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the US wants to add a sentence to the nuclear deal that says it requires the US and Iran to negotiate other issues, like Iran’s ballistic missile program.”
Balls in your court Tony. Tell us this isn’t true.
Narrative building … what we are best at. But this BS only works when it’s backed by a healthy economy and governance. The whole world knows the emperor has no clothes now, so this crap only works for the credulous still listening to CNN.
We are the most efficient conjurer of money the world has ever seen.
Blinken is looking for an excuse to terminate talks, because the Biden Administration never intended to return to the JCPOA.
Don’t worry Tony, the new government will end the talks…!
And buy more S-400s from Russia. Add a SU-57, or two.
Yesterday I listened to a senator being interviewed by the BBC. He said that at the time the JCPOA was negotiated, the Iranian “proxies” weren’t “shooting at us.” Well, yes. And you had not left the JCPOA, you had not assassinated an Iranian war hero who was your ally against ISIS on Iraqi soil, and the Iraqi parliament had not demanded you leave their country, which you haven’t done. These Iranian “proxies” (Iraqis who happen to be Shia give a crap about what happens on their own soil under foreign occupation) aren’t firing at you on some whim, or because they hate “freedom”. It’s called blowback.
I have no reason to doubt the Biden Administration wants to return to the deal. Their mistake is thinking this is some opportunity to get a “better” deal when, where the world is concerned, the US is the US regardless of who is in power, driving home the point that the US is not to be trusted.
The American proposed new provisions in the treaty contains language subjecting all Iranian funds to Israeli use. And for all Iranian first-borns to serve as slaves in Tel Aviv. As expected, Khamenei is putting up his usual nonsensical objections.
US is acting in extremely bad faith. It was the US that walked out of the agreement, not Iran. Iran is insisting on the terms of the JCPOA be honoured, there is no honour in the US position. Blinken is just using threats and intimidation in an attempt to get his way. It wont work.
Absolutely.
The most hypocritical aspect of these so-called negotiations is that everything that is going wrong is blamed by Biden&Blinken&Merkel on Iran and they are the ones who have trumpeted that “Trump always blames others for his failures”. (which by-the way is true)
A failure to restart JCPOA will be 100% on Biden&Blinken. 100%.
What is there to talk about? US left the deal. US can go back to it.
The US is “bargaining” in bad faith. Why does Iran need to do anything?