President Biden is keen to reconnect with Iran and return to the nuclear deal. However, the murderous regime has no interest in changing its ways. It promotes its nuclear weapons development and its network of deadly militias in the Middle East in its ongoing pursuit of hegemony.
During the campaign, Biden said he would rejoin the nuclear deal “as a starting point for the follow-up negotiations” if “Iran will once again strictly comply”, to strengthen and expand the provisions of the nuclear deal, while also addressing other issues of concern. , ”Such as Iran’s ballistic missile program, human rights violations and destabilizing activities. ”
It has always been naive, and Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, confirmed on Friday: “There can be no renegotiation,” he wrote in Foreign Affairs. “Iran’s defense and regional policies were out of the question,” because the West will not withdraw from the region or sell arms to its allies.
Zarif proudly stated: “Iran has significantly increased its nuclear capability,” and indeed the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed in a confidential report this month that Iran took an important step in December by launching an assembly line to build uranium metal, an important to make core. weapons component prohibited by the Nuclear Power Agreement. France, Germany and Britain jointly warned of the ‘serious military implications’ and noted that the metal had ‘no credible civilian use’.
Earlier this month, Tehran said it was producing 20 percent enriched uranium, well above the 3.67 percent agreed in nuclear power, which violates what even the lucky Europeans saw as a red line. The IAEA said in November that Iran had built up 12 times a low-enriched uranium supply allowed under the agreement. Iran has been holding visits to the agency for months last year, promising to permanently substantiate inspectors if US sanctions are not lifted on February 21.
The problem is also not just nukes. Tehran’s military exercises that took place this month included tests of ballistic missiles and bombers aimed at Iranian state television, a ‘hypothetical enemy missile shield’ and ‘hypothetical enemy bases’. Some missiles landed just 100 kilometers from the USS Nimitz, and their debris flew after they exploded. One rocket touched the water 20 miles from a merchant boat.
Newsweek recently reported that Iran is delivering ‘suicide drunk’ (advanced unmanned aerial vehicles) to its Houthi agents in Yemen. With a distance of 2,000 kilometers, they can hit Israel, Saudi Arabia, even American targets in the region.
All of this should be a wake-up call for the new president, but Biden seems to be sticking with the road. His choice of CIA director William Burns played a key role in the Obama administration’s secret talks in 2013 with Tehran that led to the 2015 nuclear deal. Biden Robert Malley reportedly wants his special envoy to Iran make.
Malley was ousted from the 2008 Obama campaign after news broke that he had met with members of the terrorist group Hamas, but he became the Middle East director of President Barack Obama’s National Security Council. Last year, he actually condemned the assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Dozens of former Iranian hostages and human rights activists have sent a letter to Biden’s foreign minister urging him not to put Malley in government, as it would send an icy signal to the Iranian dictatorship that the United States is only focused on that. re-entered Iran’s nuclear deal and ignored regional terror and domestic crimes against humanity.
That was exactly the approach of the Obama era, and Biden wants to repeat the deadly mistake.