Returning to the Iran Nuclear Deal Threatens Mideast Stability
Biden risks undoing years of progress in curbing Iranian militantism by returning to the JCPOA
December 18, 2020 | Finn Visser
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On the 20th of January, Joe Biden is expected to enter office as the 46th president of the United States. The new commander in chief will be faced with some very serious challenges at home. The lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest will undoubtedly be the first on Biden’s list of domestic issues.
But the new administration will also face hurdles abroad, the most substantial of these will be navigating a new Middle East.
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Air-traffic controller Alan Topp sat with his eyes fixed to the radar screen, watching the white marker indicating that Pan Am Flight 103, which had taken off from London’s Heathrow airport 27 minutes before, had crossed into Scottish airspace on its voyage across the Atlantic to New York. It was a pretty standard route, nothing too interesting that December night over three decades ago, but suddenly, Topp shot to full attention: The radar screen showed not just one blip where Flight 103 should have been, but four. Topp tried to contact the pilot of the aircraft, but there was no response. He buzzed the oceanic controllers responsible for the plane’s Atlantic crossing, but they too had lost contact with the plane. As his colleagues gathered around his screen, they would soon learn that those four blips represented the c
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Abu Dhabi: The US designated on Tuesday the Iranian-backed and Bahrain-based Saraya Al Mukhtar or Mukhtar Brigades as a terrorist organisation, accusing it of plotting attacks against US personnel in the Gulf state.
In a statement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the group is “reportedly receiving financial and logistic support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”
Pompeo added that Saraya Al Mukhtar’s “self-described goal is to depose the Bahraini government with the intention of paving the way for Iran to exert greater influence in Bahrain. The group has plotted attacks against US personnel in Bahrain and has offered cash rewards for the assassination of Bahraini officials.”