Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (2nd L) gestures during the 2015 nuclear talks. Photo: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
The diplomatic pressure campaign could complicate the incoming administration's efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
Some of the Iran nuclear deal’s fiercest opponents are urging President-elect Joe Biden to let them have a say — and maybe even a seat at the negotiating table — in future talks with Tehran.
Representatives of some Gulf Arab countries as well as Israel are raising the idea in private and public conversations in the run up to the start of the Biden administration.
After all, ambassadors of three of the countries argued in interviews with POLITICO, they have more at stake than the United States or the other countries who crafted the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran. Bringing them on board, they add, would beef up the U.S. leverage over Iran.
Read more ....
Update: Report: Israel, Arab states seek 'seat at the table' in Iran talks (Israel Hayom)
WNU Editor: I have doubts that the Biden administration will give Israel and the Arab states a seat at the table. The individuals who did the 2015 "deal" are the same people who are pushing to revive it right now. They ignored Israel and American allies then. I predict that they will ignore them now.
Update #2: Biden's media allies are now pushing the narrative that it is all President Trump's fault .... Column: Biden was left with a mess in Iran. Can he get out of it? (Doyle McManus, L.A. Times).
Update #3: President Trump knew what Iran was all about. Europe does not. And I certainly do not have any confidence that the new Biden administration does .... Do America’s Iran experts understand today’s Iran and its goals? (Jerusalem Post)
4 comments:
5:09 PM
Actually I just listen to what Islamic terrorists say and watch what Islamic terrorists do. There's no BS involved.
/And its not "Islamophobia". Its sober recognition of the threat they pose.
Without Israel and the Arabs having "a seat at the table" where their concerns can be properly addressed, no agreement has a chance. When negotiating it's not going to end well if one or more of the parties most affected by the agreement is frozen out. This assumes the goal truly is a workable agreement designed to defuse conflict. Perhaps rge primary goal is to hurt Israel and/or the Arab states then "freezing them out" would make sense. Assuming the goal is lessening of conflict Israel and the Arab states must have " a "seat at the table."
Besides after the percieved stolen election and numerous other failures by the group that leads team Biden I don't envision Iran or anyone else having much respect for America or them. Israel and the Arabs are needed at the table to give us some credibility.
While Europe may not understand Iran, I'm not convinced of this. Europe views America at best as a strategic competitor and at worst as an enemy so naturally their tendency is going to be to side with Iran. Making matters worse Europe is heavily reliant on Russia for it oil needs making it even less likely we are going to get any help from them. Having Israel and the Arab nations "at the table" would provide some credibility, strength, and stability that we don't have. Not onclufing them suggest team Biden is, ar best, not serious about resolving or lessening the conflict or, at worst, perhaps has another agenda.
Packistan will declare war in iran
Hardly, both are under the boot heel of China. It just won't happen
Post a Comment