Posted on 12/01/2020 5:57:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
Berlin — Six former European diplomats are calling on European governments to coordinate efforts to urge an incoming Biden administration to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, from which President Trump withdrew in 2018, and to agree with the regime in Tehran on steps for mutual compliance.
The call comes amid fears that Friday’s assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh could complicate attempts to restore the deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
“In response to reimposed U.S. sanction [sic] since 2018, Iran has increased its nuclear activities and continues to step away from its commitments under the JCPOA,” said the diplomats in a statement published by the European Council of Foreign Relations (ECFR).
“The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran has failed,” they charged.
The signatories — all ECFR members — were former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, former British Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, Munich Security Conference chairman Wolfgang Ischinger, former French ambassador to the U.S. Jean-David Levitte, former Polish foreign minister Andrzej Olechowski, and Javier Solana, a former Spanish foreign minister who served as NATO secretary-general in the 1990s and then as E.U. foreign policy chief until 2009.
The six men called on European governments, particularly the trio that are parties to the JCPOA, Germany, France and Britain, to urge the next U.S. administration to rejoin the agreement. …
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Russia will also be involved, and will get its weapons deals with Iran back.
They wany the Mullahs to have the bomb.
Yes . . . the P5+1 back to their old tricks again.
Axis of Weasels.
Ie. Deal to arm and fund iran, there and here, now and then.
Axis of Greta Thornberg...
It defies credulity.
They just can’t wait to undo anything that Trump has done regardless of the good that has resulted.
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