While the negotiations with the Iranian side regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018, continued, new statements made by US President Joe Biden about the agreement emerged.
“DEAD BUT WE WILL NOT ANNOUNCE IT”
Iranian activist Damon Maghsoudi posted on his social media footage of a conversation Biden had with Iranians during his November 4 visit to the US state of California. In the footage, an Iranian woman asked Biden, “President Biden, will you please announce that the JCPOA is dead? Can you announce that?” and Biden initially answered “No” to the woman, and then the woman asked “Why?” She was heard to say, “There are many reasons. He’s dead but we won’t announce it. It’s a long story, but we’ll be sure.” The woman later said, “We don’t want any deal with the mullahs. There is no deal! They do not represent us, they are not our government,” Biden said to the woman, “I know they do not represent you, but they will have a nuclear weapon to represent.”
NEGOTIATIONS TO RETURN TO THE NUCLEAR AGREEMENT
The five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council (Britain, USA, China, France, Russia) and Germany and Iran signed an agreement called the “Comprehensive Joint Plan of Action”, which includes the supervision of Iran’s nuclear activities, in 2015. Former US President Donald Trump In 2018, Iran unilaterally withdrew from the agreement, and the Iranian administration returned its nuclear activities to the pre-agreement agreement.After this, the US administration targeted Iran with heavy economic sanctions.To return to the nuclear agreement, in Vienna, the capital of Austria, in April 2021, Iran, France, Negotiations had begun between Russia, China, the UK and Germany, with the US President Joe Biden taking office in November 2021, negotiations were underway for the US to return to the agreement, but the negotiations were stopped last March for different reasons.
Discussions between the European Union (EU) and Iran on the revival of the JCPOA have been continuing in Vienna, the capital of Austria, since last August, although the US delegation did not directly participate.
Source: UAV