Trouble at home may change President-elect Biden s hand in Iran nuke talks Share Updated: 5:07 AM CST Jan 19, 2021 By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP In this photo released on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are launched in a drill in Iran. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a drill Saturday launching anti-warship ballistic missiles at a simulated target in the Indian Ocean, state television reported, amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP) SOURCE: Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP
By Patrick Goodenough | January 18, 2021 | 4:27am EST
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to return to the Obama-era nuclear deal, if Iran complies. (Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The campaign to influence the incoming Biden administration’s policy towards Iran picked up pace over the weekend, with three U.S. allies in the Gulf urging Washington not to return to the 2015 nuclear deal repudiated by President Trump, while France argued that U.S. re-entry was urgent, given the regime’s stepped-up nuclear activities.
In a striking show of unity, the Washington-based ambassadors of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Israel contended that the new administration will wield significant leverage over Tehran and should not squander that by simply returning to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and then looking to reopen talks on other troubling regime behavior.
A lot of the characters are the same for President-elect Joe Biden but the scene is far starker as he reassembles a team of veteran negotiators to get back into the 2015 nuclear deal with.
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Left: Then-US President-elect Joe Biden on January 14, 2021, in Wilmington, Delaware (AP Photo/Matt Slocum); Right: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, December 9, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
AP A lot of the characters are the same for US President-elect Joe Biden as they were in 2015, but the scene is far starker, as he reassembles a team of veteran negotiators to get back into the nuclear deal with Iran.
US President Donald Trump worked to blow up the multinational deal to contain Iran’s nuclear program during his four years in office, gutting the diplomatic achievement of predecessor Barack Obama in favor of what Trump called a maximum pressure campaign against Iran.
We are seen as weaker : Biden negotiators weigh up Iran threat
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Washington: A lot of the characters are the same for US President-elect Joe Biden but the scene is far starker as he reassembles a team of veteran negotiators to get back into the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
President Donald Trump worked to blow up the multinational deal to contain Iran’s nuclear program during his four years in office, gutting the diplomatic achievement of predecessor Barack Obama in favour of what Trump called a maximum pressure campaign against Iran.