Whats especially bizarre here in reading this is that there seems not the slightest sense of any urgency on the side of the biden regime regarding rejoining the jcpoa,its almost as tho they consider that they literally have all the time in the world to play around with,yet in reality they have at best a mere 4-5 months tops,assuming that iran does not quit the ap or further reduce its compliance in the meantime.
They either genuinely believe that time is somehow on their side,hence the moronic insistence that iran should be the one to reurn to full compliance first,or they like the chump regime think,despite all the obvious proofs to the contrary,that iran in desperation will compromise on the idea of a "better deal".The only other alternative is that the biden regime has no real intention of rejoining the jcpoa but will leave it up to rouhanis successor regime to finally pronounce it dead.
Do they genuinely not realise that there will be no more deals after this?,that this was quite literally the litmus test for western political trustworthiness and reliability?.
Ladies and gentlemen....,I give you the new biden regime......sadly tho,so far it looks to be little different than any of its predecessors....
Biden Administration Dodges Iran Offer to Coordinate Nuclear Deal Return
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administration-rejects-iran-offer-coordinate-nuclear-deal-return-1566310
President
Joe Biden's administration has dodged an Iranian offer to coordinate both countries' return to their nuclear deal commitments, arguing that the Islamic Republic must first reinstate the restrictions suspended in response to the U.S. having abandoned the agreement entirely nearly three years ago.
The agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was reached in 2015 by the U.S. and Iran, alongside China, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom.
Former President
Donald Trump left the accord in 2018. Facing severe U.S. sanctions, Iran has begun enriching uranium beyond designated caps, something the Biden administration says is blocking a U.S. return to the deal.
"If Iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the JCPOA, the United States would do the same," State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his first press conference Tuesday, "and then we would then use that as a platform to build a longer and a stronger agreement that also addresses other areas of concern."
He emphasized, however, that "we are a long way from that."
Tehran has vowed to reinstate these limits, which Iranian officials argue were taken within the framework of the deal's dispute resolution clause, but only if Washington—as the party who first walked away—adhered to its obligations.
In an interview Monday with
CNN, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif proposed a different approach, one in which both countries would synchronize their JCPOA-related moves under the supervision of the
European Union.
The top Iranian diplomat said that, in his role as JCPOA commissioner,
EU Foreign Affairs High Representative Josep Borrell could "choreograph the actions that are needed to be taken by the United States and the actions that are needed to be taken by Iran."
He suggested that is the best way forward.
"Clearly, actions that Iran takes have always been monitored and certified by the IAEA and we have shown that we fulfill our promises," Zarif said. "The side that has not been able to show it fulfill its promises has been the United States, and as I said, the United States has to prove its bona fides, we have already proven our bona fides."
He repeated his offer to pave a path toward resolving the dispute.
"If we are away from the strict limitations of the nuclear agreement its because the United States tried to impose a full economic war on Iran," Zarif said. "Now if it stops that, we will go back into full compliance."
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price speaks at his first daily press briefing at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on February 2. NICHOLAS KAMM/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
Borrell and his team, for their part, "are working extremely hard to get the JCPOA back on track," spokesperson Peter Stano told the Agence France-Presse.
Price said the U.S. diplomats had not yet opened the issue with the Iranian side. And though he said the negotiation of a new nuclear deal was an issue that "cannot wait" and a challenge that the new administration had to "tackle immediately," he indicated that Iran was "a far cry" away from taking initial steps needed to get diplomacy back on track.
"Iran has distanced itself from compliance on a number of fronts, and there are many steps in that process," Price said.
Among them he listed "consulting with our allies, consulting with our partners, consulting with
Congress before we're reaching the point where we're going to engage directly with the Iranians and willing to entertain any sort of proposal, especially since we've been very clear about the proposition we have put on the table."
The State Department did not immediately respond to
Newsweek's request for comment.
Reuters later cited an unnamed U.S. official as saying "there is no rejection" at the moment.
"We have not begun negotiating with Iran, or with anyone else, because our priority is to consult" with partners in the nuclear deal and in the region, the official was cited as saying.
Iran has always denied seeking a nuclear weapon, but the international community has expressed skepticism toward this claim. Still, the JCPOA was built to assuage those fears, imposing tight restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
Biden and a number of top officials, some of whom were involved in the implementation of the JCPOA during former President
Barack Obama's administration, have criticized Trump's decision to leave the agreement, but have so far dismissed a hasty return.
