Iran’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement saying they will maintain their enhanced enrichment level until they get full and immediate sanctions relief as required under the P5+1 nuclear deal.
Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that proposals for a “step-by-step” process had been suggested, and would see Iran reversing its nuclear process, for only a small step of US engagement in the process. He said Iran considers this unacceptable.
With indirect talks coming up, France is urging Iran to avoid any further escalation as both sides try to work out the disagreements and get the process back into good standing, with everyone getting what they believe they’re entitled to under the nuclear deal.
That shouldn’t be that difficult, provided the US returns to the deal and is willing to apply sanctions relief as agreed to years ago. US refusal to keep the deal, and efforts to undermine everyone else’s enforcement of the deal, has been the chief reason Iran feels aggrieved, and why for the past years Iran has been reversing parts of its own participation in the deal, and letting its stockpile grow, to try to get talks on fixing the process.
The US took everything for nothing by cheating.
Now the US expects Iran to agree to give everything for almost nothing except “we’ll talk, trust us.”
It is worse than unlikely and unreasonable. It is an insulting suggestion.
Insulting the other side is a way to kill negotiations altogether. Some want exactly that, and they are push Biden to get it.
I can only imagine what the US has to offer. In exchange for full compliance under the JCPOA, their promise to refrain from having any allies in the region and their willingness to give up all defensive military capabilities including any and all ballistic missiles and the sanctions on the paper boys go away.
France is urging Iran to avoid any further escalation.
surely, if anything, the process currently underway is one of de-escalation
at this point in time no one is doing any “escalation”
The US is “escalating” its bullsh*t. (I won’t say that “Biden” is doing anything. Biden is a puppet/placeholder for his Neocon handlers.) The effort here is complete Kabuki. The Neocons are working on creating the justification — Iranian unwillingness to cooperate — for not reentering the JCPOA.
Any other “narrative” is nonsense, and I don’t think I’m being unreasonable in suggesting that nearly everyone sees the game.
The best for Iran is to quit JCPOA and NPT, and expel the IAEA spy inspectors…!