President Biden
Joe BidenREAD: House Democrats ’big COVID-19 relief bill introduces the .9T relief package. Launches Nunes lawsuit against CNN MOREThe decision to open the doors to negotiations with Iran and other nations underscores a strong shift toward its predecessor and the first diplomatic foreign policy advocated during the Obama years.
The Biden administration said on Thursday it would accept an invitation from the European Union to speak with Iran and the other five signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal President Trump
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Biden’s decision came as no surprise, as he campaigned to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA). But he arrived on a quick timetable as his administration wants to re-establish an agreement they consider vital to nuclear weapons control.
Former government officials acknowledge that joining the agreement will be a long and difficult process. This week’s events have already opened Biden to criticism from Republicans who believe the original deal was flawed. Attacks on the new Democratic president are now escalating.
Still, Biden’s move represents his latest effort to work with allies on shared challenges and use diplomacy as the primary tool to achieve foreign policy goals, a nearly 180-degree turn from Trump’s approach. ” America first “for international participation.
“What it says more than anything 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 invigorate them, with which we will work.” , he said Dennis Ross
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It is unclear whether Iran will eventually accept a meeting, although Ross suspected Tehran would do so “reluctantly.” Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has tweeted that Iran would “immediately” reverse the actions of its nuclear program if the U.S. lifts the crippling sanctions imposed by Trump.
Iran has warned it will restrict access for inspectors from UN atomic agencies starting Tuesday, an effort to pressure the U.S. to remove Trump-era sanctions.
Biden has said the U.S. will re-enforce the deal if Iran does the same. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
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“It’s about holding a conversation about the way forward,” Psaki said 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 demand that the UN Security Council re-impose “instant” sanctions on Iran and alleviated national travel restrictions on Iranian diplomats.
Rep. Michael McCaul
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State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Friday that the measures taken at the UN would align the United States with other members of the security council who disagreed with the instant determination and therefore strengthen the position of the United States to engage with allies in Iran.
“That blockade weakened our ability to deal with Iran’s destabilizing activities,” Price said of the disagreement over the snapback.
Although the United States expressed solidarity with European allies in expressing its willingness to hold talks with Iran, it is unlikely that this move will be received by other allies such as Israel and the Gulf states.
Biden will have to address Iran’s power attacks in the region. Tehran is suspected of a rocket attack on Iraq that killed a US contractor and injured eight more people earlier this week, although the Biden administration has not publicly blamed Iran.
“We are ready to re-engage in negotiations with the P5 + 1 on Iran’s nuclear program,” Biden said in statements at the Munich virtual security conference on Friday. “We must also address Iran’s destabilizing activities throughout the Middle East and work closely with our European and other partners as we move forward.”
Ross said Biden’s challenge will be to show that he is not conceding anything to Iran ahead, while also trying to change Tehran’s behavior.
“The main risk will be that the Iranians have obviously been involved in a stance of trying to put pressure on us and the question will be whether they will come to the conclusion that the pressure works,” Ross said.
Proponents of the 2015 deal argue that it represents the best way forward to restrict Iran’s ability to acquire a nuclear weapon and that Trump’s decision to withdraw and reimpose sanctions made the world community less safe and left the United States isolated from the 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 of arms control and non-proliferation at the Obama-led National Security Council.” The current position is worse than where we were under the agreement with Iran. “
Wolfsthal also made a distinction between critics of the agreement who genuinely oppose it and those with political motives. He assumed Biden would work to bring to the table lawmakers who had concerns about rejoining the deal.
“There are reasonable people in Congress, Republicans and Democrats, who care about what will happen in ten or fifteen years when the sunsets start at the JCPOA,” Wolfsthal said. “President Biden would like to extend the duration of these commitments and I think there is a way to do that.”
Critics argue that the original agreement did not do enough to limit Iran’s nuclear program and express concern that the Biden administration will lift 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 go back to the original flawed agreement, many of the most restrictive clauses of which are due to the sunset,” Jim Phillips said. senior Middle East researcher at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
“For me, the problem with multilateral diplomacy is that American interests are sacrificed and diluted back and forth,” Phillips said of Biden’s approach.
The effort to open talks with Iran will present a first test for the secretary of state Anthony Blink
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Events on Iran occurred when Biden met with members of the Group of Seven (G7) and emphasized his commitment to alliances and multilateral engagement during the Munich virtual conference speech. Biden announced he would commit $ 2 billion to Covax, the international program to vaccinate the poorest populations, and celebrated on Friday that the U.S. would officially rejoin the Paris climate deal.
“The whole strategy is that the US, working with our allies, will be able to reunite this agreement unless Iran wants to,” Wolfsthal said. “This is much better for the United States to be to blame for the deal being undone.”