Iran nuclear deal around the corner?
Both sides of a renewed Iran nuclear deal negotiation have hinted that an agreement and eventual signing is closer than before. Three main sticking points are holding the negotiations from closing the deal for signature. The Iranian side of the negotiation believes that these issues would not be hard to address.
From CNBC:
Three main sticking points remain. Iran wants the Biden administration to remove its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its designated terrorist list, which so far Washington seems unwilling to do.
It also wants a guarantee that the deal will be binding regardless of future U.S. administrations. Biden cannot legally guarantee that, and the reality remains that another administration could cancel any deal just as former president Donald Trump did.
The third item is a long-running investigation by the IAEA into traces of uranium found at three of Iran’s undeclared nuclear sites several years ago. Tehran wants it shut down, something the agency itself, as well as Western governments, are opposed to.
The U.S. didn’t seem to have much patience with Tehran’s demands, with State Department spokesperson Ned Price saying this week that “the only way to achieve a mutual return to compliance with the JCPOA is for Iran to drop further unacceptable demands that go beyond the scope of the JCPOA. We have long called these demands extraneous.”
‘Now or never situation’
In the time since Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal in May 2018 and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran, the Islamic Republic’s government has pushed ahead with rapid nuclear development.
Its stockpile of enriched uranium is now at 60% enrichment, its highest ever and a huge leap from the 3.67% limit set out by the 2015 deal, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA.
The level required to be able to make a bomb is 90%. Commercial enrichment for energy use is between 2% and 3%. It’s also slashed IAEA access to its nuclear sites for monitoring.
“The restoration of the deal is getting close to a now or never situation,” Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States in Washington, told CNBC.
CNBC has additional information here.
Category: International Affairs, Iran
Gosh, it seems like only a couple of weeks ago that Iran released a video stating that Iran already has missiles capable of “turning New York into hellish ruins” and “All infrastructures required for nuclear breakout have been prepared”.
I guess the plot of Maverick must have been too much for them.
I can however see Biden taking the IRGC off of the terrorist watch list. Their anthem is “Death to America” and this seems to coincide with the goals of the current administration.
Great, and after Iran sends over a missle to us, biden can say
Iran all the way home just to say I’m sorry, please let me say, Iran all the way Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay.
This may require a special “Crack” negotiator in the form of Hunter Biden.
Iran is jealous of the over $7 Billion in weapons and military equipment the Brandon administration/caretakers “donated” to Afghanistan. They’re pretty sure Brandon will sweeten the deal with whatever they ask/stall for to get it done (AND continue to develop nukes) so he can put a “win” in campaign advertisements.
I thought that oBlowme had already bought off, I mean negotiated a deal with the Iranians? Maybe we shoulda sent a C-5 or a C-17 loaded with case instead of a C-130? Or, maybe, we should just nuke the site from orbit…it’s the only way to be sure.
Dogs do, in fact, bite the hand that feeds them – almost as soon as it stops delivering food.
Often, this works, because the feeder realizes they want food and, being the kind of person that loves and feeds dogs, they respond by offering food.
This is different from those who love, feed, and respect dogs. One need not respect Iran on a moral level – it takes a fool to disrespect the hazard they present when you take off the muzzle. Iran has pledged that they’ll never again wear the muzzle (some grudging respect in that), but they’ll still take any food we’ll feed them.
Surprised? Yeah, me neither.
Oh, yeah. We should definitely get into a deal with a country who was behind a plot to assassinate US Government officials. That makes total sense. (Sarcasm very heavily implied.)
In fairness we kill their officials all the time. At least they don’t have any hard feelings about that.
Put a hola in the Ayatollah.
There is nothing more desireable to the Anti-Semites in The Democratic Party than a Nuclear Armed Iran.