Posted on 03/02/2022 4:24:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has occupied all of the media's attention, leaving several other international priorities of the Biden administration to continue without much scrutiny. One of these is the effort to revive a version of the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.
From the outside, it would appear that Iran holds most of the cards when it comes to a new nuclear deal. Even though deadlines for reaching a new accord have come and gone, the U.S. has granted extensions of sanctions waivers and kept the negotiations alive. Whether this is driven by a dire need for a foreign policy victory or a sense that a new agreement is within reach remains an open question.
As the director of the Center to Advance Security in America, I am following the issue closely. My organization is seeking records to help the public better understand whether a new deal is in America's interest and what this means for exposing the priorities of the current administration. On its face, the U.S. government's position is that the deal is the best chance we have to stop Iran from joining the nuclear club. But recent foreign policy debacles have raised concerns over the genuineness of this claim.
The most notable defeat is the embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan despite internal analysis indicating that senior decision-makers were aware of the potential for disastrous consequences from their planned actions, which my organization is also looking into. History may be repeating itself in the Iran nuclear deal. For instance, it recently came out that Richard Nephew and two other American negotiators resigned from the negotiations because they wanted a tougher posture.
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Joe wants to know where the ice cream be.
Keep an eye on all Putin allies.
Iran deal can’t be ‘postponed any longer’: Germany’s Scholz
Jerusalem (AFP) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that a new Iran nuclear agreement “cannot be postponed any longer”, during a visit to Israel which staunchly opposes efforts to forge a deal.
“What we would like to see is that an agreement is reached in Vienna,” Scholz told reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a vocal critic of the international talks in Austria’s capital.
“Now is the time to make a decision,” Scholz said. “This must not be postponed any longer and cannot be postponed any longer. Now is the time to finally say yes to something that represents a good and reasonable solution.”
As we heard in the SOTU, Ukraine and Putin is a bad dude is the change of subject so we don’t have to deal with the utter incompetence emanating out of DC.
That goes double for those tricky "Urainians" prezzy potato head mentioned last night.
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