U.S. allies are furious that Biden is trying to resurrect Obama’s same old useless Nuclear deal with Iran. It didn’t work the first time and that’s why it was knocked down but Biden seems hellbent on bringing it back.
His little National Security Council puppet, coordinator John Kirby says that Biden is aware of their concerns but fully intends to push forward.
“Our allies in Israel, they’re not comfortable with it. They’re the prime target. Our Arab allies also not comfortable getting back into a deal with Iran,” Fox News host Martha MacCallum said. “So does this isolate us out of that equation when we’re doing something that all of those partners are not happy with?”
“Quite the contrary,” Kirby responded, arguing that it was the withdrawal from the deal under former President Trump in 2018 that isolated the U.S. from its allies. When the U.S. was active in the agreement, he said, it was Iran who isolated itself by violating the same deal the White House is determined to revive.
“When we were in the deal, Iran was the one that was isolating itself by not accommodating to it, So look, we were isolating ourselves by pulling out,” he said. “It was a decision that was opposed by our European allies and partners and many other countries around the world. Now we want back in the deal. We want Iran back in the deal so that we can eliminate the outcome of them having a nuclear weapon.”
Kirby said while Biden “understands” the concerns of Israel and neighboring countries, he remains determined to rejoin the JCPOA and use diplomacy as a means to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear capabilities.
“Any problem in the Middle East only gets more difficult to solve when you have a nuclear-armed Iran,” Kirby said.”
Critics say the deal would at best only delay Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. According to a new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), Iran is poised to rake in an estimated $275 billion in the first year and balloon to an estimated $1 trillion by the early 2030s.
Kirby said the revived agreement would reinstate the “most strenuous inspection” protocols on Iranian facilities—But that didn’t thward their nuclear efforts last time, did it?
“This is not about trust. It’s about verify,” he said. “We can get inspectors on the ground and see what the Iranians are doing. If they cheat on the deal, we’ll know. We’ll have a lot [more] of transparency and visibility than we do right now, which is to say, we have none.”
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Looks like the U.S. will lose the faith of yet another set of allies and can you blame them? Isreal especially. They’re Iran’s biggest target. While they may have the ‘iron dome’ it’s not going to stop a nuclear attack.