Iran demands ‘guarantees’ from Washington over nuclear talks due to Trump’s ‘arrogance’
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:
Iran will likely get its guarantees from Biden’s handlers in their pursuit of another disastrous nuclear deal at all costs.
Trump knew about Iran’s violation of the Obama nuclear deal and its own admission to having violated it. Trump was also aware of Iran’s repeated threats and provocations regarding its military capabilities. Iran’s escalation is worrying, and its new president Ebrahim Raisi is extremely brutal. He ordered thousands killed in mass executions and tortured pregnant women. And he calls himself a “defender of human rights.”
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has warned that Raisi is the “last chance for world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement.” As Iran boasts about “agreements” and “human rights” despite its record, no Western country appears to be waking up and becoming willing to stand up to Iran as it continues full speed toward developing a nuclear bomb. Now it is bullying a weak Biden administration into submission.
“Tehran demands ‘guarantees’ from Washington over nuclear talks due to former president Trump’s ‘arrogance,’” RT, June 21, 2021:
Iran has said that it’s looking for guarantees from the US during negotiations in Vienna aimed at bringing the two countries back in line with the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by former president Donald Trump.
Speaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the former US administration of Donald Trump had demonstrated how the US can turn its back on agreements.
The United States once showed during the Trump era that it can arrogantly ignore the interests of other countries, so Iran wants guarantees from the current US administration.
Khatibzadeh refused to be drawn into discussions on what these guarantees were, noting that “it is a topic that is being discussed behind closed doors.”
Talks have been taking place in Vienna this year to restore the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), which was originally signed in 2015 between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US – plus Germany.
The pact, which put restraints on Iranian nuclear ambitions, was unilaterally abandoned in 2018 by former US president Donald Trump, who enacted harsh sanctions on Tehran.
Iran has since further hollowed out the deal, increasing its enrichment program in excess of the agreed 3.67% level, but less than the 90% level considered weapons-grade. In April, Tehran stated that it would enhance its uranium enrichment to 60%, following an alleged Israeli attack on its Natanz nuclear facility.
Last week, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said that a long-awaited deal may have to wait until Iran has a new government….