In a sign that the US is a long way from lifting sanctions on Iran, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US will not return to the nuclear deal until Iran comes back into compliance.
“President Biden has been very clear in saying that if Iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the JCPOA, the United States would do the same thing,” Blinken said at a press conference on Wednesday.
“But we are a long ways from that point. Iran is out of compliance on a number of fronts. And it would take some time … for it to come back into compliance in time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations,” he said.
Blinken’s comments come after Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the US must take the first step. Writing in Foreign Affairs last week, Zarif called on President Biden to unconditionally lift sanctions if he is serious about restoring the JCPOA.
Zarif’s argument is that since the US violated the deal by re-imposing sanctions on Iran in 2018, it’s on Washington to revive the JCPOA. Iran gradually began violating the deal in 2019, after waiting a year for the other signatories to offset US sanctions.
Zarif, and other Iranian officials, have made it clear these violations are easily reversible and that they would quickly comply with the agreement if the US gives Iran sanctions relief.
Well then the deal is off. That did not take long. The neocons around Biden have taken over, and mean to attack Iran.
Iran possibly wont do it because there was no negative effects on the world for Iran not honoring fully the JCOPA but Iran had and continues to have the negative effects from US’s leaving the pact and from EU following the US’s lead.
Another possible reason it wont because it knows the meaning of Blinken .
And the morons in the Hollywood auditorium ,in the library book reading events and in the gatherings of the big Evangelical churches or in the large MAGA crowds wonder why “they hate us” .
“Reality check for @SecBlinken: The US violated JCPOA, blocked food/medicine to Iranians, punished adherence to UNSCR 2231,” Zarif wrote. “Throughout that sordid mess, Iran abided by JCPOA, only took foreseen remedial measures. Now, who should take 1st step? Never forget Trump’s maximum failure,” the foreign minister added.
Damn, this guy is good.
Blinken has his orders from BB. This is his rhetorical way of appearing to want to restore it.
Speaking of sanctions. . .from oilprice.com
Game-changing Iranian Pipeline Set To Launch In March
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Yet another example of why the United States is not trustworthy.
The MIC would love for Iran to get the bomb. Justification for even more massive militant tech investment.
That’s America’s problem; not Iran’s.
“President Biden has been very clear in saying that if Iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the JCPOA, the United States would do the same thing,” Blinken said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Is Blinken just pretending he’s not aware why Iran violated the deal? Iran should lift their collective middle finger and say the deal is dead and go fuck yourself.
Uh huh…so Trumps policy with a new face….Hypocrisy reigns, supreme as ever. When will the rsst of the JCPOA sivnatories wake up and sort this out. Drclare the santions over and threaten countersanctions on the US if it tries to enforce its own. If the Germans/dutch can withstand the blizzrad of sanctions trying to stop Nordstream 2, they can grow a pair and save the JCPOA…..if they really do care.
The poodles will never go that far.
Iran has to face reality… play rope-a-dope while deploying nuclear weapons… the US will never abide by any deals and in the end Iran will wind up like Libya and Iraq anyway. Just say no and line up allies starting with Russia and China. Decouple from the US orbit and the EU poodles. Soleimani neutralized Israel.
“the US will never abide by any deals and in the end Iran will wind up like Libya and Iraq”
Iran has twice the population of Iraq and more than ten times the population of Libya, and a more modern military. And it’s not like the US was able to successfully control Iraq (or Afghanistan, also half Iran’s size).
Blinken in blinking too fast…! Iran will never agree and partial expulsion of IAEA inspectors on February 19 is inevitable…!
“Iran must comply with the nuclear deal before the US does” – Tel Aviv
It looks like the JCPOA is Dead in the Water.
While Israel isn’t a JCPOA signatory, I might suggest that Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif might issue a token request that the IAEA be mandated by the signatories to inspect Israel’s nuclear weapons. The numbers are said to between 80 to 100 warheads..
Of all the countries the IAEA has been allowed to inspect–the US among them–a visit or inspection to Israel has never been publicly recorded.
The parties should be seeking transparency and avoidance of Zionist hypocrisy.
The US have absolutely no intention of sitting down and discussing things like adults. They are a complete embarasssment on the international stage.