Press TV: US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has strongly criticized the previous administration of president Donald Trump over its “disastrous” withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Sullivan made the remarks at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday as the seventh round of the talks in Vienna aimed at reviving the JCPOA wrapped up.
He said the past few days have brought “some progress” at the negotiating table, but Tehran has “raced” its nuclear program since Washington pulled out of the agreement in 2018 under Trump.
“Getting that program back into a box through a return to mutual compliance with the JCPOA has proven more difficult through the course of this year than we would have liked to see,” he added. “And we are paying the wages of the disastrous decision to leave the deal back in 2018.”
Sullivan further said that the Vienna talks are “not going well in the sense that we do not yet have a pathway back into” the JCPOA.
The comments echoed those of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who earlier admitted that abandoning JCPOA “isolated” the United States, not the Islamic Republic.
Blinken also said that the US maximum pressure campaign against Iran only pushed the country to “inexorably rebuild the nuclear program that the agreement had put in a box.”
Trump unilaterally left the JCPOA in May 2018 and re-imposed the anti-Iran sanctions that the accord had lifted. He also placed additional sanctions on Iran under other pretexts not related to the nuclear case as part of his “maximum pressure” campaign.
Following a year of strategic patience, Iran decided to let go of some of the restrictions on its nuclear energy program, resorting to its legal rights under the JCPOA, which grants a party the right to suspend its contractual commitments in case of a non-performance by the other side.
The US administration of President Joe Biden had voiced a willingness to compensate for Trump’s mistake and rejoin the deal, but it has retained the sanctions as leverage.
Envoys from Iran and the P4+1 group of countries — Britain, France, Russia, and China plus Germany — began negotiations in the Austrian capital in April in a bid to resurrect the JCPOA.
The seventh round of the talks, the first under Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi’s administration, started on November 29 following a five-month pause. On December 17, Iran’s top negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, announced on Twitter that “good progress” had been made, and that the negotiations would continue after a “break of a few days.”
During the discussions, Iran presented two draft texts which address, separately, the removal of US bans and Iran’s return to its nuclear commitments under the JCPOA.
Russian envoy: Talks may resume on Dec. 27 or Jan. 3
Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov told TASS news agency on Friday that a new round of the Vienna talks may begin in late December or early January 2022.
“As for the date for the resumption of talks, there is no complete clarity. The issue of the date is open. As far as I understand, there are two options: either to resume the work on December 27, at least the expert level within the framework of the eighth round, or on January 3, when everyone is ready for that. The Russian delegation is ready to work without breaks,” he said.
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Trump’s spit in the wind! Now whether he comes back on the next election or not – the damage (to US) is done. No nukes or Israeli BS can stop Iran, I think this is ordained from above to show US & EU devil worshipers Who’s the boss.
“President Joe Biden voiced a willingness to compensate for Trump’s mistake and rejoin the deal, but it has retained the sanctions as leverage”
That’s absolutely right!
“Leverage” for Iran.
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” compensate for Trump’s mistake and rejoin the deal, but it has retained the sanctions as leverage”
He could not more loudly declare he is not serious if he were to take out a full page ad in the New York Times.
When you consider that Trump initially promised his Christian Zionist base that he would kill the JCPOA, move the US embassy to Jerusalem, and murder General Soleimani, is it any wonder that Biden can’t now put Humpty Dumpty back together again? 40 million US evangelicals pray for WWIII to happen soon.
I love your headings Gordon.
There is no other way to describe Trumpsteins.
And the way JCPOA is moving forward, Trump will have to go back to his old habits again.
And if you’re wondering why I have consecutive posts it’s because something is wrong with your site. It keeps crashing.
Our Favorite Jarhead Tells It Like It Is!
Gordon Duff For President!
Newt, I have had no crashes, but I have been on and offline.
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