A clear sign that Biden is going to let Iran go nuclear

[Kamaji]

A clear sign that Biden is going to let Iran go nuclear

By NY Post Editorial Board
January 25, 2022

US Deputy Special Envoy for Iran Richard Nephew and two other diplomats have quit the team negotiating the revival of the nuclear deal with Tehran after their pleas for Team Biden to take a harder line fell on deaf ears. It’s a terrible sign — not just on the Iran front, but for all American diplomacy.

Career diplomat Nephew was a top member of the team that negotiated the original 2015 deal, after playing a key role in designing sanctions imposed on Iran from 2006-13, which are what brought it to the negotiating table in the first place.

Now he and his colleagues are out, having pushed for stronger US responses after Tehran last month pulled back nearly all the concessions it had made in prior months. (The Iranians won’t even sit in the same room as the US team: Europeans have to carry messages back and forth.)

Nephew & Co. wanted existing sanctions enforced seriously, and for Washington to push the International Atomic Energy Agency to call out Tehran’s countless violations of its promises.

The point being: Make Iran pay a price for its bad faith, or it will drag out the talks forever, even as its nuclear-weapons program rushes forward.

Nephew, a strong backer of the 2015 deal, has said that tough sanctions were vital in getting the Iranians to negotiate seriously then, and clearly thought the same was still true.

No doubt, the Biden State Department is set to keep on talking until Tehran announces it’s gone nuclear — rather than risk annoying Iran’s leaders by actually playing tough. Biden is so unwilling to consider alternatives to the (ruinous) deal that he’s willing to ignore the fact that the Iranians are only playing for time.

In short: You cannot only expect this evil regime to go nuclear on Joe Biden’s watch, you can bet all America’s other enemies recognize that US diplomacy is toothless.

Instead of “peace through strength,” this administration has embraced weakness that’s all too likely to encourage war.

Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/01/25/a-clear-sign-that-biden-is-going-to-let-iran-go-nuclear/

[mountaineer]

Adam Kredo
@Kredo0
JUST IN: Biden Admin Relying on Russia To Finalize Iran Nuclear Deal as Putin Invades Ukraine -- Biden "rushing to finalize a deal with Iran, brokered by Russia, that it does not want Congress to review, in violation of US law," @RepMcCaul tells me
3:11 PM · Feb 28, 2022

Story at Free Beacon:

Biden Admin Relies on Russia To Finalize Iran Nuclear Deal as Putin Invades Ukraine
Adam Kredo • February 28, 2022 3:10 pm


Even as Moscow invades Ukraine, the Biden administration is relying on Russia to solidify a revamped nuclear agreement with Iran, a deal that senior Republican foreign policy leaders say will be approved in the coming days without any input from Congress.

As Russian forces press further into Ukraine, threatening to spark a world war, the Biden administration is rushing to finalize a Russia-brokered nuclear deal with Iran, Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon.

"Russia's further invasion of Ukraine is reprehensible, but we can't lose sight of the next national security crisis as it forms before our eyes: The Biden administration is reportedly rushing to finalize a deal with Iran, brokered by Russia, that it does not want Congress to review, in violation of U.S. law," McCaul said.

Throughout the conflict, the Biden administration has kept diplomatic channels with Moscow open in the hopes it can push Iran into accepting a deal that will provide the world's leading sponsor of terrorism with billions of dollars in cash windfalls.

McCaul and other Republican foreign policy leaders who spoke to the Free Beacon about the situation warned that this reliance on Moscow is undermining American and European efforts to isolate Russian president Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. These lawmakers say the conflict threatens to distract attention from negotiations surrounding a new nuclear deal, providing the Biden administration with an opportunity to skirt congressional review of any deal.    ...

[Kamaji]

Adam Kredo
@Kredo0
JUST IN: Biden Admin Relying on Russia To Finalize Iran Nuclear Deal as Putin Invades Ukraine -- Biden "rushing to finalize a deal with Iran, brokered by Russia, that it does not want Congress to review, in violation of US law," @RepMcCaul tells me
3:11 PM · Feb 28, 2022

Story at Free Beacon:

[DB]

Iran is going nuclear regardless of what these idiots claim they are "negotiating".

They could already have an operational nuke for all we know.

We are way past the point of no return with Iran.

[berdie]

Iran is going nuclear regardless of what these idiots claim they are "negotiating".

They could already have an operational nuke for all we know.

We are way past the point of no return with Iran.

I believe you are 100 per cent correct.

[Kamaji]

Iran is going nuclear regardless of what these idiots claim they are "negotiating".

They could already have an operational nuke for all we know.

We are way past the point of no return with Iran.

I imagine the Israelis would know whether Iran has an operational nuclear device.

[DB]

I imagine the Israelis would know whether Iran has an operational nuclear device.

They may.

[rustynail]

A clear sign that Biden is going to let Iran go nuclear........the mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv?

[Wingnut]

They may.

They know Iran doesn't yet have an offensive nuke. 

[GtHawk]

Biden is going to let Iran go nuclear? I'm sorry isn't it a bit late to talking about Joe going to let them when the discussion is obviously a day late and a dollar short? Team ButtBoy/ButtHead did that years ago. 

[mountaineer]

Iran International English
@IranIntl_En
“What’s happening in Vienna is a total disaster” a source told @GLNoronha, a former Iran official at @StateDept   "US has promised to lift sanctions on some of regime’s worst terrorists & torturers, officials in regime’s WMD infrastructure & is trying to lift sanctions on IRGC."
9:38 AM · Mar 2, 2022

Iran International English
@IranIntl_En
#BREAKING Biden admin is preparing to lift US bans against key regime officials such as Mohsen Rezaei & Ali Akbar Velayati (both wanted for their roles in 1994 AMIA bombing), IRGC's Hossein Dehghan & institutions like Bonyad & Setad, @GLNoronha has quoted his sources as saying.
9:48 AM · Mar 2, 2022·

Iran International English
@IranIntl_En
These are among 112 people/entities who will be removed from the blacklist as "Biden’s team is preparing to rescind the Supreme Leader's Office Executive Order (E.O. 13876) as soon as this coming Monday," @GLNoronha claimed, saying the E.O. is unrelated to JCPOA.
10:00 AM · Mar 2, 2022

[mountaineer]

Another tw*tter thread about Biden lifting sanctions on terrorists.

https://twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1499018801148575749

[Kamaji]

Another tw*tter thread about Biden lifting sanctions on terrorists.

https://twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1499018801148575749

Does this surprise anyone, other than the 3rd graders currently infesting the White House?