Negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, are set to resume on November 29th. Ahead of the talks, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned the US and other Western powers involved against “excessive demands” and said he would work for the best interests of the Islamic Republic.
“We will not walk away from the negotiating table, but we will also oppose any excessive demands that would end up harming the interests of the Iranian people,” Raisi said on Thursday. “We will not retreat in any way when it comes to interests of the Iranian people, but will continue our efforts to neutralize the oppressive sanctions and are taking action to have them lifted.”
During the initial rounds of negotiations that lasted from April to June, Biden refused to lift all Trump-era sanctions. According to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the US also made additional demands, including adding a line to the JCPOA that would commit Iran to further negotiations over other issues, such as ballistic missiles.
A recent report from Responsible Statecraft revealed President Biden rejected a way forward with Iran during the first rounds of talks by refusing to guarantee that the US would stay in the JCPOA during his term in office. In an apparent response to the report, Biden released a joint statement Saturday with the leaders of France, Britain, and Germany that said he is committed to returning the US to “full compliance with the JCPOA and to stay in full compliance” if Iran does the same.
While the statement could be a potential sign of goodwill from Biden, other US officials have responded to Iran’s willingness to return to negotiations with skepticism and threats. The US also slapped new sanctions on Iran last week, calling into question how serious the Biden administration really is about restoring the JCPOA.
Just can not see any thing come out of the new”talks”. Israel will sabotage if at all there is any possibility of settlement
They are not party to the JCPOA. Sabotage how? By launching a first strike?
Sabotage how? Simply demand Biden to do so. Are you so naive even to imagine that U S of A can take any decision independent of Israel.Once up on time there was a USA when it could reign in Israel as in 1956.That America does not exist any more.Today’s America is not an independent entity. It is just a tributary of Israel.
That their lobby is powerful is unequivocal. There is a clear and longstanding policy bias towards Israel. The US uses its veto on the Security Council as a shield to prevent Israel from being sanctioned in any serious way. Though I think it is a little silly to say that the Israeli government literally dictates American policy, especially when it was only 6 years ago that the JCPOA was signed to the chagrin of Israel and its congressional advocates. For another example, in the closing days of the Bush Administration, there was talk of a first strike on Iran by Israel. Bush Administration officials basically told them “don’t even dare.” To reiterate, though, the Israel Lobby is certainly a malevolent and potent force
Don’t go around nitpicking by quoting stray instances. Whatever you say as “bias” is nothing other than servility.I have never been to US or any foreign country. To know about USA I depend on Israeli and Jewish sources.The impression I gather is that USA is just vassal of Israel. A tributary
Stopping Israel from launching a rogue strike on Iran in the waning days of the Bush Administration is not a “stray instance.” It was averting a catastrophic war.
Neither is the signing of the JCPOA a “stray instance”. It was a major multilateral effort involving many rival interests, a result of almost a decade of negotiations. To call it a stray instance is absurd.
Your impression is false. Israel is a parasitic client state of the US, much like Saudi Arabia. They are not in charge. If they were, Iran would have been attacked long ago. Attributing literal control of American policy is hyperbolic and detrimental to countering the actual issue of the Israel lobby’s undue, disproportionate, and harmful influence.
It’s not even Israelis who are the main part of the lobby, it is insane Christian Zionists whose insane theology requires Israel to exist to bring about Armageddon. They are quite insane.
Stopping Israel from launching a strike is not a stray instance. It was no “instance”at all. Israel alone cannot launch a successful attack on Iran on its own then or now. What bush did was he gathered nerves not to launch attack by America as prodded by Israel. .Now what is the position. Understandably, Blinken is now inclined to oblige Israel. As for JCPOA how many in the Congress voted against it despite intense pressure from the president.
Some stray instanc: Bush in 2002 openly demanded before the whole world that Israel should vacate settlements.As reported in BBC Sharon gave a hard kick on his face and there the matter did end. 20 plus years thence expansion still goes on. How many “instances”you want?
As for “Christian” Zionists. Money talks. It is all about Benjamins as AOC said. Don’t feign ignorance of this fact.
It is really amusing to see your statement that Israel is parasite like Saudi Arabia. You can delude some people.What is Saudi Arabia?Rich cash cow which you extract to the maximum.What leverage it has in American decision making other than the money they spend on influence buying. To compare it with Israel, I just do not know what to say.
Be protective about Israel.It is OK. You need not have any guilty conscience or embarrassment, when even the most moralistic people look the other way when it comes to Israeli depredations.
Will or can U S A open a consulate in Jerusalem as declared by Biden administration? Yes or no
Do you really think the JCPOA wasn’t honored from the start or Trump dropping out of the deal wasn’t because of Israeli influence? They’ve already sabotaged it and they did it without a first strike.
The demands should be the conditions of the JCPOA, upon all parties. Period.
November 29 will come and go… Talks, if any, would take less than a week… and then US delegations have to take their holiday vacation…! and that would be the end of JCPOA….! Expect expulsion of IAEA spy inspectors in 2022…!
I think Iran will continue to loudly proclaim its adherence to “talks” for the sake of public opinion and to temporize hot war.
The US will agree to be ‘reluctantly’ accepting of ‘continued negotiation’ because it wants to pivot toward China, not become tangled in another anti-Muslim Crusade. It considers ‘sanctions’ the better option all round.
Israel has big ideas. She is rabid (going on 10 yrs now) for War with Iran. She conceives herself on the verge of a Conquest of Canaan from Ugarit to UR, the Levant to the Euphrates, that would justify Her to History.