Reiterating his desire to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran could come into compliance with the agreement within an hour of the US doing so.
Rouhani also said that Iran would not accept any preconditions for returning to the deal, known as the JCPOA, including limitations on Iran’s ballistic missile program.
A stricter deal that includes Tehran’s missiles is a demand of Iran hawks in the Trump administration. Rouhani addressed this demand and his hopes for the incoming administration.
“The Americans were trying for months to add the missile issue and this was rejected,” Rouhani said of the 2015 JCPOA negotiations. “Trump was uninformed and did not know about the matter, but Mr. Biden is well aware of the details of the deal.”
Joe Biden has repeatedly said that he plans to work with Iran to return to the JCPOA and work on a follow-on agreement that deals with Iran’s missiles after the fact. “I have not heard Biden say that we have to reach another agreement in order to return to the nuclear deal, that is what Trump says,” Rouhani said.
In the final days of the Trump administration, there are a lot of forces at work hoping to sabotage Biden’s attempts to return to the JCPOA, including Israel, who is the likely perpetrator of the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Rouhani discussed Fakhrizadeh’s killing on Monday and accused Israel of trying to start a war. “Waging instability and war in the final days of the Trump administration was the main aim of the Zionist regime in the assassination,” he said.
Iran might be willing to return to the agreement, but somehow I doubt the US will with no “ifs” and “buts.”
Europe First priorities will decide.
Waiting for Chuck Schumer(I) to give his opinion. Or Pelosi. Someone will have to interpret what she is saying because her gibberish isn’t understandable any longer.
The incoming Biden regime has tried to have it both ways, return to the Deal and renegotiate the Deal as a condition to return.
That means of course that the Biden regime is lying.
Good to have it confronted with an immediate “put up or shut up.”
As with every new regime, no way to know until it happens in January. My bet, Biden will return to the deal, and end some of trumps sanctions. Tho, being the political hack he is, will talk tough.
Loot. Then pillage.
Iran will be encouraged to spend all its freed frozen assets on European goods through the ‘right’ vendors.
Then the JCPOA will come under review and renegotiation after money changes hands but preferably with most of Iran’s goods still on order or in transit.
Europe needs cash now from all possible sources whether the JCPOA or U.S. kickbacks through COVID-1984 ‘relief’ bills, especially the most connected of the power elite.
COVID-1984 and the American colour revolution were massively expensive plays for power.