Posted on 11/03/2021 6:29:11 PM PDT by elpadre
Iran agreed Wednesday to resume talks with world powers on reviving a nuclear deal on November 29 after a five-month gap, with the United States urging a quick resolution. Advertising
The indirect negotiations in Vienna come amid mounting pressure on Iran, with Western nations warning that the clerical state's nuclear work is advancing to dangerous levels and Israel threatening to attack.
EU envoy Enrique Mora, who led six rounds of talks earlier this year and recently flew to Tehran to seek progress, will again chair the November 29 meeting, the European Union announced.
President Joe Biden took office hoping to return to the 2015 agreement from which his predecessor Donald Trump bolted. But the talks earlier this year failed to secure a breakthrough with Iran, which requested a pause after the June election of a new hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that the United States believed it is possible to resolve "quickly" the "relatively small number of issues that remained outstanding at the end of June."
"We believe that if the Iranians are serious, we can manage to do that in relatively short order," Price told reporters.
"But we've also been clear, including as this pause has dragged on for some time, that this window of opportunity will not be open forever." 'Lacks authority'
Trump slapped sweeping sanctions on Iran as he withdrew the United States in 2018, leading Tehran to take steps out of compliance with the deal through which it had been drastically scaling back sensitive nuclear work.
Iran wants a lifting of all US sanctions but the Biden administration says that it will only negotiate measures taken by Trump over the nuclear program, such as a unilateral ban on oil sales -- not steps imposed on other concerns such ....
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We need “Islamic” talks with Iran.
Biden administration now desperate for some kind of win somehow somewhere in the entire spectacular failure that they have had so far.
Not one successful thing that they can point to now.
and more:
“...Iran also wants commitments that the United States will stay committed to the deal — an unlikely proposition in Washington, where Trump’s Republican Party, emboldened by a state election win Tuesday, fiercely opposes Biden’s diplomacy with Iran.
“The American president lacks authority and refuses to offer guarantees,” Iran’s top security official Ali Shamkhani wrote on Twitter as the talks were announced.
“If that does not change, the result of the negotiations is already clear.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri, Iran’s lead negotiator, confirmed the November 29 resumption of talks and said the goal would be “the removal of unlawful and inhumane sanctions.”
Adding to US frustrations, Iran has refused to meet directly with the US envoy, Rob Malley, with European mediators instead shuttling between hotels in Vienna.
Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia remain in the deal with Iran and will take part in the negotiations, the EU statement said....”
Ridiculous song and dance. With idiots like pencilneck Price, nothing good will come of this, and in the end Israel will have to take charge of history.
Guess this is why oil prices corrected a bit today. A 1-day stay of execution from the crippling Bidinflation.
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