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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: libertybele on February 19, 2021, 05:28:40 pm

Title: Biden team takes a major step in offering to start talks with Iran as Tehran’s sanctions deadline ap
Post by: libertybele on February 19, 2021, 05:28:40 pm
Biden team takes a major step in offering to start talks with Iran as Tehran’s sanctions deadline approaches

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran and the U.S. are in a standoff.

President Joe Biden’s administration wants to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, but is demanding to see changes from Tehran before it will lift the heavy sanctions imposed on the country by the Trump team.

Meanwhile, Iran says it wants Washington to step up its game and make the first move, refusing to budge until those sanctions are lifted.

But the Biden administration on Thursday took a major step, joining with European partners in offering to begin talks with the Iranians for the first time in four years.

“The United States would accept an invitation from the European Union High Representative to attend a meeting ... to discuss a diplomatic way forward on Iran’s nuclear program,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.

The Biden team also rescinded the former Trump administration’s efforts to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told European ministers in a call Thursday that it would work with them to restore the 2015 accord, which he described as “a key achievement of multilateral diplomacy,” according to a New York Times report.

It remains unclear whether Iran will agree to the talks.


https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/19/jcpoa-bidens-return-to-the-iran-nuclear-deal-is-getting-harder.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/19/jcpoa-bidens-return-to-the-iran-nuclear-deal-is-getting-harder.html)
Title: Re: Biden team takes a major step in offering to start talks with Iran as Tehran’s sanctions deadlin
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on February 19, 2021, 06:43:44 pm
Did this include another pallet of cash for the Mullahs to use to suppress opposition?
Title: Re: Biden team takes a major step in offering to start talks with Iran as Tehran’s sanctions deadlin
Post by: christian on February 19, 2021, 07:04:09 pm
The mullahs will hold out for more nuclear materials=technology and American money, they know democrats are good for it.  Its Bidens excuse to run out of stimulus money and deny it to Americans, whom he really loathes.
Title: Re: Biden team takes a major step in offering to start talks with Iran as Tehran’s sanctions deadlin
Post by: PeteS in CA on February 19, 2021, 08:02:45 pm
Let me know when Biden's surrender talks begin.