Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the US should act quickly to revive the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, and warned that the upcoming June elections in Iran could slow Tehran’s ability to make policy changes.
“A lame duck government will not be able to do anything serious. And then we will have a waiting period of almost six months. We will not have a government before September,” Zarif told the European Policy Centre think-tank on Monday.
“A lot of things can happen between now and September. So, it is advisable for the United States to move fast,” Zarif said.
In an interview last week, President Biden’s Iran envoy Robert Malley said Iran’s elections were not a factor for the US. “We won’t rush or slow things because of the Iranian elections,” he said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who negotiated the JCPOA, is not up for reelection in June. He is expected to be replaced with a more hardline president who may not be as patient with the US as Rouhani.
But even the hardline Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made it clear that Tehran is ready to return to the limits set by the JCPOA once the US lifts sanctions. So no matter who wins in June, the US will still be able to revive the JCPOA by giving Iran sanctions relief.
Zarif reiterated Tehran’s stance on Monday. “We are ready to go back immediately, after the United States goes back to implementation of the deal. That’s as simple as that,” he said. “We don’t see any reason for talks; we can go immediately to implementation and then have talks.”
The fact that President Biden is demanding talks with Iran before giving sanctions relief means he is pursuing the same policy as his predecessor, something Zarif pointed out. “Up until now, this administration has done nothing different from the Trump administration,” he said.
Here are some very interesting comments from the American Admiral in charge of USSTRATCOM about how the United States needs to prepare for a nuclear war:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/02/preparing-for-nuclear-war-in-multipolar.html
Apparently, Iran isn’t the only issue when it comes to the use of nuclear weapons.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Clearly the US does not wish to deal with this before September.
That is a mistake. By the time Iran has a new government, its self-contained program will be still more advanced. It too won’t wait on elections.
If the US keeps pushing, a deal will no longer be available, they’ll just go for a bomb, “backed into a corner” as they have said.
I’m fine with Iran having a bomb. It seems to be the most likely way to end this. I do not fear Iran using a bomb, less so than Israel or even the US using one.
However, I know that will bring intense pressure for war on Iran. That I am not fine with. The enemy that concerns me is in Israel and DC, among the Blob.
The instant Iran has a deliverable bomb, the Israelis, knowing the “existential” consequences of a war with Iran, will do everything in their power to ***PREVENT*** a US war on Iran.
That said, I don’t think the Iranians will pursue an actual bomb, but rather so extensive an enrichment effort and bomb design effort, that they will have “break out capacity” of at most a few weeks, and thus have a credible nuclear deterrence while yet remaining in compliance with the rules of the NPT.
If Iran does get the bomb, how do they deliver the bomb(s)? Scuds?
“Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who negotiated the JCPOA, is not up for reelection in June. He is expected to be replaced with a more hardline president who may not be as patient with the US as Rouhani.”
And this is what we want. Rouhani and Zarif make us look foolish with their diplomatic skills. We need another loudmouth Ahmadinejad type that we can use as proof that all our bullsh*t is true.
Meanwhile Iran is in full control politically, militarily and financially. On the latter, from oilprice.com 3/14 . .
China Ramps Up Oil Imports From Iran
The Zionist Biden administration has lost sight of the big picture, which ought to include a realization that the US is the loser in Afghanistan and so other major countries have a role to ‘take over.’ The US/NATO failure in Afghanistan is a major US issue at present, with the US attempting to arrive at some agreement from Afghan people and the country’s two major neighbors, Pakistan and Iran (among others). . . Hello, anybody home in Washington?
Israeli intelligence is very aware what the Iranians are up to. It doesn’t matter if the US re-starts any kind of a deal with them. If the Israelis see that that Iran’s nuclear stage is getting close to the “hot” stage of making the bombs, they will react very quickly, like they did against Syria’s Al Kibar nuclaer bomb factory in 2006 and Sadam in 1981 destroyed the Osirek nuclear bomb operation.