President Biden
Joe BidenREAD: The committee’s COVID-19 rescue of Democrats ‘mothers’ bill reveals a 9Q aid package. Nunes’ lawsuit against CNN has been thrown MOREThe decision to open the door to negotiations with Iran and other nations underscores a sudden return to its predecessor and a return to the first foreign policy diploma held by diplomacy in the Obama years.
The Biden administration said on Thursday it would accept an invitation from the European Union to discuss with Iran and the other five signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal that the former President Trump
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Biden’s decision was not surprising, given that he campaigned for accession to the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA). But it has come a long way, as its administration seeks to re-establish an agreement it considers vital for nuclear weapons control.
Former government officials acknowledge that re-signing the agreement will be a difficult and lengthy process. This week’s developments have already opened Biden to criticism from Republicans who believe the original agreement is flawed. He is now stepping up his attacks on the new democratic president.
However, Biden’s move is his latest effort to work with allies on common challenges and use diplomacy as the main tool for achieving foreign policy goals, a nearly 180-degree turn from Trump’s “early America” approach. of international commitment.
“What it says more than anything else is that the goal is to make diplomacy a central part of what we do, but also to prove once again that alliance relations are important, that we will work to revive them, that we will work with them, ”he said Dennis Ross
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It is unclear whether Iran will eventually agree to a meeting, although Ross suspected that Tehran would do so “with regret.” Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, wrote on Twitter that Iran will “immediately” reverse its nuclear program if the United States lifts the crippling sanctions imposed by Trump.
Iran has warned it will restrict access to UN atomic agency inspectors starting Tuesday, an effort to put pressure on the United States to lift Trump-era sanctions.
Biden said the United States would return to compliance with the agreement if Iran did the same. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
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“This is a conversation about the way forward,” Psaki said on Friday, noting that Iran is “far from complying” with the 2015 agreement.
In addition to opening the door to negotiations, the Biden administration on Thursday reversed the Trump administration’s call for the UN Security Council to reinstate “snapback” sanctions on Iran and ease internal travel restrictions for Iranian diplomats.
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State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Friday that the measures taken at the UN will align the United States with other members of the Security Council who disagree with the snapback decision and therefore strengthen the US position to engage with allies in Iran.
“That blockade has weakened our ability to address Iran’s destabilizing activities,” Price said of the snapback disagreement.
While the US has shown solidarity with European allies in expressing a desire to hold talks with Iran, it is unlikely that this move will be welcomed by other allies, such as Israel and the Gulf states.
Biden will have to address Iran’s proxy attacks in the region. Tehran is suspected of a rocket attack in Iraq, which killed an American businessman and injured eight others earlier this week, although the Biden administration has not publicly blamed Iran.
“We are ready to relaunch negotiations with P5 + 1 on Iran’s nuclear program,” Biden said in remarks at the virtual security conference in Munich on Friday. “We must also address Iran’s destabilizing activities in the Middle East, and we will work closely with our European partners and other partners as we proceed.”
Ross said the challenge for Biden will be to show that he does not give anything to Iran in time, also trying to change Tehran’s behavior.
“The main risk will be that the Iranians have obviously engaged in a position to try to put pressure on us, and the question will be whether they will conclude that the pressure is working,” Ross said.
Proponents of the 2015 deal say it is the best way to constrain Iran’s ability to acquire a nuclear weapon, and that Trump’s decision to withdraw and reinstate sanctions has made the global community less secure and left the United States isolated from allies.
“The agreement is not designed to create a perfect marriage between the United States and Iran. It is designed to prevent Iran from acquiring enough material for a nuclear weapon in a year, “said Jon Wolfsthal, senior director for arms control and non-proliferation at the National Security Council under Obama.” The current position is worse than in If I was under Iran’s consent. “
Wolfsthal also made a distinction between critics of the agreement who genuinely oppose it and those with political motives. He assumed that Biden would work to bring to the table parliamentarians who have concerns about the reunification of the agreement.
“There are reasonable people in Congress, Republicans and Democrats, who are worried about what will happen in 10 or 15 years, when the sunsets on the JCPOA begin,” Wolfsthal said. “President Biden would like to extend the duration of these commitments and I believe there is a way to do that.”
Critics say the initial agreement did not do enough to constrain Iran’s nuclear program, and are concerned that the Biden administration is lifting sanctions on Tehran before a sufficient agreement is reached.
“I do not oppose negotiations with Iran, but I think it would be a mistake to return to the flawed initial agreement, many of whose most restrictive clauses are due to the sunset,” said Jim Phillips, senior Middle East business researcher at the Conservative Foundation. Heritage.
“For me, the problem with multilateral diplomacy is that US interests are being sacrificed and diluted back and forth,” Phillips said of Biden’s approach.
The effort to open talks with Iran will be an early test for the secretary of state Anthony Blink
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Developments on Iran came when Biden met with the partners of the Group of Seven (G7) and underlined his commitment to alliances and multilateral commitment during his speech at the virtual conference in Munich. Biden announced that he will commit $ 2 billion to Covax, the international program to vaccinate the poorest populations, and on Friday celebrated the United States to officially join the Paris climate agreement.
“The whole strategy is that the US, in collaboration with our allies, will be able to re-understand this agreement, unless Iran does not want to,” Wolfsthal said. “It’s much better than the US guilt because the business is falling apart.”