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Indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. have ended in Doha, Qatar, with no sign of a breakthrough in efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, raising the risk of a potential confrontation with Tehran in coming months.”
“The 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, was designed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA in 2018, and the Biden administration has been trying to revive it.”
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But with the prospects for salvaging the agreement looking increasingly bleak, the Biden administration is coming under growing pressure in Washington and from Middle Eastern allies to consider other options to counter Iran’s nuclear program, former officials, congressional aides and analysts said.
At the request of senators two weeks ago, the Biden administration provided a closed-door classified briefing on Iran, laying out possible “Plan B” options if diplomacy fails to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal, lawmakers said. Biden is due to visit Israel and Saudi Arabia next month, and Iran’s nuclear program is expected to be at the top of the agenda.”
www.nbcnews.com
Well….so much for that idea. The obvious problem is that there’s no reason to believe the next Republican administration, whenever that happens, will abide by any diplomatic agreement we make now, and therefore no real reason for Iran to negotiate with us. Fool me once, after all…..
Likewise, the simple fact of the matter is that our strategy hasn’t worked. Decades of sanctions haven’t slowed Iranian determination to get nukes, which they see as essential to protect themselves from us.
So really, there’s only a few options left.
A) We stay the course, hope that their program is delayed or they change their minds and give up on getting nukes;
B) We invade, plunging headlong into a bloody quagmire which very well might break the back of the US military, at a time when we’ve been funneling vast amounts of weaponry overseas;
Or the preferable option, C) We come up with a concrete, ironclad deal which can’t just be overturned by the next admin and which addresses their security concerns.
Indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. have ended in Doha, Qatar, with no sign of a breakthrough in efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, raising the risk of a potential confrontation with Tehran in coming months.”
“The 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, was designed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA in 2018, and the Biden administration has been trying to revive it.”
“
But with the prospects for salvaging the agreement looking increasingly bleak, the Biden administration is coming under growing pressure in Washington and from Middle Eastern allies to consider other options to counter Iran’s nuclear program, former officials, congressional aides and analysts said.
At the request of senators two weeks ago, the Biden administration provided a closed-door classified briefing on Iran, laying out possible “Plan B” options if diplomacy fails to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal, lawmakers said. Biden is due to visit Israel and Saudi Arabia next month, and Iran’s nuclear program is expected to be at the top of the agenda.”
U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations in Qatar end without breakthrough
"We will keep working with even greater urgency," said the E.U. official who served as an intermediary between the chief Iranian negotiator and Biden envoy Rob Malley.
Well….so much for that idea. The obvious problem is that there’s no reason to believe the next Republican administration, whenever that happens, will abide by any diplomatic agreement we make now, and therefore no real reason for Iran to negotiate with us. Fool me once, after all…..
Likewise, the simple fact of the matter is that our strategy hasn’t worked. Decades of sanctions haven’t slowed Iranian determination to get nukes, which they see as essential to protect themselves from us.
So really, there’s only a few options left.
A) We stay the course, hope that their program is delayed or they change their minds and give up on getting nukes;
B) We invade, plunging headlong into a bloody quagmire which very well might break the back of the US military, at a time when we’ve been funneling vast amounts of weaponry overseas;
Or the preferable option, C) We come up with a concrete, ironclad deal which can’t just be overturned by the next admin and which addresses their security concerns.
