Iran Deal: Russia Says Biden Admin Gave “Guarantees” Allowing Moscow to Trade With Tehran Despite Uk

[Elderberry]

Legal Insurrection by  Vijeta Uniyal 3/15/2022

Iran Deal: Russia Says Biden Admin Gave “Guarantees” Allowing Moscow to Trade With Tehran Despite Ukraine Sanctions

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: “We received written guarantees.”

In a desperate attempt to save the nuclear deal, President Joe Biden appears to have surrendered to last-minute Russian demands, allowing Moscow to trade with Iran despite sanctions imposed in wake of Ukraine invasion.

“We received written guarantees. They are included in the text of the agreement itself on the resumption of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear program,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday.

Following the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the U.S. and several Western countries have slapped a slew of sanctions on Moscow aimed at crippling the country’s ability to carry out foreign trade and it access to the international financial system.

Russia, a party to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, threatened to derail President Biden’s revised deal with Iran if Moscow did not receive written guarantees from the White House allowing it to bypass sanctions in trading with Tehran.

Israel’s i24News channel reported Russian foreign minister’s discloser claiming U.S. guarantees:

    Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday after negotiations regarding a nuclear deal stalled as Russia presented new demands.

    Lavrov said that Moscow received guarantees from the United States on its ability to trade with Tehran as part of ongoing talks to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.

    “We received written guarantees. They are included in the text of the agreement itself on the resumption of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear program,” Lavrov told reporters during a press conference.

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[Kamaji]

Bidet is a traitor.

[Free Vulcan]

Treason + sedition.

[mountaineer]

So confusing. Are we mad at Russia, or no?

Adam Kredo
@Kredo0
BREAKING: New Iran Deal Lets Russia Cash in on $10 Billion Contract To Build Nuke Sites -- Biden admin will waive sanctions so Russia's top energy firm can build contested Iranian nuke plant, enriching Moscow even as Ukraine sanctions bite

New Iran Agreement Would Let Russia Cash in on $10 Billion Contract To Build Nuclear Sites
Biden admin will waive sanctions so Russia can build contested nuclear plant
Adam Kredo • March 16, 2022 3:25 pm

Russia’s top state-controlled energy company is set to cash in on a $10 billion contract to build out one of Iran’s most contested nuclear sites as part of concessions granted in the soon-to-be-announced nuclear agreement that will guarantee sanctions on both countries are lifted.

Russian and Iranian documents translated for the Washington Free Beacon show that Rosatom, Russia’s leading energy company, has a $10 billion contract with Iran’s atomic energy organization to expand Tehran’s Bushehr nuclear plant. Russia and the Biden administration confirmed on Tuesday that the new nuclear agreement includes carveouts that will waive sanctions on both countries so that Russia can make good on this contract.

"We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA," State Department spokesman Ned Price confirmed on Tuesday, referring to the original 2015 nuclear accord. Russia’s foreign ministry made a similar statement on Tuesday, saying that "additions were made to the text of the future agreement on JCPOA restoration to ensure that all the JCPOA-related projects, [especially] with Russian participation, as well as Bushehr [nuclear power plant], are protected from negative impact of anti-Russian restrictions" by the United States and European Union.

The removal of these sanctions will provide Moscow’s Rosatom company with a critical source of revenue as American and European sanctions crush Russia’s economy in response to its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The concessions to Moscow have generated frustration on Capitol Hill, with top Republican leaders accusing the Biden administration of weakening penalties on Russia to secure an agreement with Iran. Moscow has served as the United States' top interlocutor in talks, even as the country’s war machine rolls across Ukraine. The Free Beacon first reported on Tuesday that a policy document circulating among lawmakers exposes how the new nuclear agreement will create a "sanctions evasion hub" for Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department special adviser for Iran under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, told the Free Beacon that Russia is being awarded a financial lifeline via the nuclear agreement, undermining international efforts to isolate Moscow. ... Washington Free Beacon

[Kamaji]

Wow.  What a two-fer.  Russia gets $10 billion in hard currency exactly when the U.S. is risking heightened conflict with economic sanctions to bleed Russia out of Ukraine, and Iran gets nuclear facilities constructed by the Russians (and which, therefore, will likely be capable of switching to producing weapons-grade fissile material with the flick of a switch and some simple retrofits).

Biden is, well and truly, one of the worst enemies this country has faced in a long time.

[DefiantMassRINO]

If it's not a treaty ratified by the US Senate, it's just a cocktail napkin with some scribbles on it.

[Kamaji]

If it's not a treaty ratified by the US Senate, it's just a cocktail napkin with some scribbles on it.

Not so.  It's a valid and binding contract, until and unless one of the parties thereto chooses to breach it.  What it is not, however, is the "law of the land" in the same way that a ratified treaty is.  So an agreement like this can be ripped up by the next president with some common sense whereas a ratified treaty could not.