On Thursday, the State Department downplayed expectations for the renewed effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal through indirect talks between Washington and Tehran. Talks in Vienna on Tuesday established working groups that will figure out how the US can return to the JCPOA.
While State Department spokesman Ned Price said the US would characterize the talks as “constructive,” he made it clear the US isn’t in a rush to revive the JCPOA. “We would also, however, hasten to not allow expectations to outpace where we are. After all, we have said this will be hard,” he told reporters.
Price also insisted that it will be “hard” to revive the deal. “It’ll be hard because the subject at hand is very technical; it’s very complex,” he said.
The reality is, the path to the JCPOA is wide open for the Biden administration. The US could at any time lift sanctions that were imposed after 2018, and Iran would return to the limits set by the agreement. But since President Biden is demanding mutual steps, the process could take a while.
Regardless of the US complicating the issue, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani seems happy with the progress. On Wednesday, Rouhani said the talks marked a “new chapter” in the efforts to revive the agreement.
“Everyone around the nuclear deal has come to the conclusion that there is no better solution than the JCPOA and no other way but the full implementation of the JCPOA. This is a new success for the Islamic Republic,” Rouhani said.
What we have here is the Netanyahu ventriloquism. The Mossad chief has arrived in DC.
Rouhani is an unpopular lame-duck. The presidential election is coming up on June 18 and Iran’s increased support from China will increase the US’s “hardness” of resurrecting the JCPOA. Just getting out of bed in the morning stresses these people, when the solutions are obvious to everybody else.
Price also insisted that it will be “hard” to revive the deal. “It’ll be hard because the subject at hand is very technical; it’s very complex,” he said.
I’ll help you out Ned. You lift the sanctions and Iran goes back into compliance. I guess “complex” must have a completely different meaning in your world.
http://www.indianpunchline.com/us-turkey-isis-al-qaeda-taliban-make-one-happy-family/
http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1992
Articles by MK Bhadrakumar and Denis Korkodinov, respectively regarding Erdogan and how his detractors perceive his Ottoman II aspirations.
It appears as though US-Turkey teamwork is needed to keep the global Caliphate alive while dismembering Afghanistan.
With that said, the Taliban can safely be considered a non-terrorist organization. It doesn’t speak highly of the Afghanistan government.
Perhaps Erdogan changed his mindset when that great Caliphate figure, then US President Barack Obama, attempted to overthrow the Erdogan government a few short years ago.
The Russia-China-Iran alliance appear as the ironic choice to defeat the devil.
Anyone still believe Christian influence exists in Washington D.C., Europe, or Ankara?
https://journal-neo.org/2021/04/09/us-occupation-force-commits-new-crimes-in-syria/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
Iran’s Middle East influence is metaphorical to a wheel and its components, hub and spokes.
I hope Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia could appreciate the potential for prolonged, regional peace by China’s recent efforts at entente.
All sanctions or just some?
When the US signed the original deal in 2015, it made a critical distinction between lifting pre-existing, nuclear-related sanctions and other sanctions that it would retain related to Iranian acts of terrorism, its ballistic missile program, human rights abuses or cybercrimes. Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, is now insisting that all sanctions imposed since January 2016, the date the 2015 agreement came into force, be lifted. . .All.
Yes, all of the sanctions are groundless and should be lifted.
>The US calls Iran the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, which has no basis in fact. No Iranian name appears on any US list of terrorists (but plenty of Saudi names).
>The UN resolution asked Iran to consider lessening its ballistic missile program, but of course since Iran has been denied any aircraft fighter force it must depend upon ballistic missiles for its own defense.
>Iran has less human rights abuses than the US.
>Ditto on computer hacking, the US NSA leads the world on that, and the US has attacked Iran’s computer systems numerous times.