Trump had put sanctions on Iran and was trying to get them to come to the table to make a deal where we are not paying them off to not make nukes. But Biden messed that up once he took office. He pandered hard to Iran. He lifted sanctions and weakened the defense of our allies just to appease Iran. Iran took advantage of Biden and fast-tracked its nuclear program. In fact, they are close to having made enough nuclear material to create a nuke. So now a U.S. coalition is telling Iran to come to the table or else.
“Speaking Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked about the Biden Admin’s want to deal with this matter civilly.
“We still believe diplomacy is the best path forward for putting the nuclear program back in the box that had been in under the agreement, the so-called JCPOA. But we were also looking at, as necessary, other options if Iran is not prepared to engage quickly in good faith, to pick up where we left off in June,” Mr. Blinken said.
“Every option is on the table, but here’s what’s important: Iran, unfortunately, is moving forward aggressively with its program. The time it would take for it to produce enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon is getting shorter and shorter,” he said. “The other thing that’s getting shorter is the runway we have, where, if we do get back into compliance with the agreement, and Iran gets back into compliance, we actually recapture all of the benefits of the agreement. Iran is learning enough, doing enough, so that that’s starting to be a problem.”
“In a joint statement over the weekend, the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany told Mr. Raisi that his country still has a window of opportunity.
“We call upon President Raisi to seize this opportunity and return to a good faith effort to conclude our negotiations as a matter of urgency,” the leaders of those four countries said in their communique. “That is the only sure way to avoid a dangerous escalation, which is not in any country’s interest.”
Iran has no intentions of stopping. So it looks like things are about to escalate again in the middle east. But at least this time other countries are involved, so maybe they can take the point for disaster-prone Biden.