The Biden administration plans to resume indirect negotiations with Iran this weekend as part of its efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he is willing to deal with tension with the U.S. over his endeavors to shut down Iran’s nuclear program.
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Iran Confirms significant Progress In Nuclear Deal As Talks Resume In Vienna
Iran, along with six world powers have made “significant progress” in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal but important issues still need to be resolved.
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Iran, along with six world powers have made “significant progress” in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal but important issues still need to be resolved, Iran Foreign Ministry said on May 31. Speaking at a televised news briefing, ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh, further asserted that by the end of the ongoing talks in Vienna, the involved parties would reach a conclusion. The fifth round of talks took off in the Austrian capital on May 25 to conclude an agreement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), the prime reason behind the US-Iran kerfuffle.
Iran agrees to keep surveillance cameras at its nuclear sites for one more month: Not ideal
May 24, 2021 / 10:42 AM / CBS/AP Iran blaming Israel for attack on nuclear facility
Iran and the U.N. s nuclear watchdog agreed on Monday to a one-month extension to a deal on surveillance cameras at Tehran s atomic sites, buying more time for ongoing negotiations seeking to save the country s tattered nuclear deal with world powers. The last-minute discussions, including the International Atomic Energy Agency pushing back a statement planned for Sunday, further underscored the narrowing window for the U.S. and others to reach terms with Iran as it presses a tough stance with the international community over its atomic program.
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Human rights concerns are once again playing a major role in United States national security policy. After having been totally ignored in the four years of Trump’s chaotic presidency, these concerns are slowly eating away at American relations with many of its erstwhile allies and partners. This is especially the case in the Middle East, but is true elsewhere as well.
Ever since Woodrow Wilson sought to impose his starry-eyed vision of international comity not only on his own country but worldwide, the United States has veered between his approach and that which prioritised hard-headed realpolitik, initially associated in the 19th century with John Quincy Adams. Henry Kissinger, James Baker and George H W Bush all conducted American policy with a huge dose of clear-eyed realism. To some extent, so too did Bill Clinton, who refrained from any serious American effort to prevent the 1994 Hutu massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda and only reluctan