Iran Nuclear Crisis Grows Ahead of Big Power Talks in Vienna Bloomberg 13 mins ago
(Bloomberg)
An attack targeting Iran’s primary nuclear-fuel facility and Tehran’s retaliatory vow to begin enriching uranium close to weapons grade will confront diplomats seeking to revive a stricken atomic agreement when they meet on Thursday.
Envoys from Iran and six world powers will convene in Vienna for a third meeting in 10 days with the Persian Gulf once again convulsed by the crisis. They’re trying to coordinate a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal and Iranian compliance with its enrichment commitments. The immediate challenge will be to defuse tensions.
Apr 15, 2021
For U.S. President Joe Biden, withdrawing the remaining American troops from Afghanistan is a recognition of the inevitable after 20 years of war with no clear victory in sight. The president’s critics argue it will obliterate U.S. leverage over the Taliban, and doom the country’s few but fragile gains.
Biden, speaking Wednesday from the same room where President George W. Bush announced the start of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, cast his decision as the ultimate buck-stops-here moment, delivering on a commitment that three previous presidents had made but failed to fulfill.
He would finally end the longest of the country’s “forever wars,” refusing to risk more taxpayer funds and American blood on a far-away conflict.
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