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Jerusalem, Israel – The European Union (EU) submitted a final document on nuclear weapons to the Iranian regime on Monday, temporarily curbing Tehran’s ambitions to develop an atomic bomb in exchange for more than $100 billion in sanctions relief.
Many arms control experts are concerned about elements of the nuclear package, as they believe the EU has been on a concessional negotiating trajectory that has stalled in the past.
“As the EU seeks to restore some of its foreign policy legacy, the safeguard issue cannot be swept under the rug. Instead, Iranian officials create the ultimate weapon,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at Washington’s Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), told Fox News Digital.
The official name of the nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was completed in 2015. President Trump’s administration withdrew the nuclear deal in 2018 after it failed to stop theocratic states from building nuclear weapons.
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“This was a horrible one-sided deal that should never have been made,” Trump said at the time, adding, “It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace and it never will. Let’s go,” he added.
The EU’s chief diplomat, Joseph Borrell, said: “What can be negotiated has been negotiated and is now in the final text. But behind all the technical issues and all the paragraphs that take place in the capital. There is a political decision that needs to be made, and if these answers are affirmative, we can sign this contract.”
The 2015 contract was an unsigned deal. It is unclear what difference a signed agreement will make in 2022, as the agreement is a political understanding.
FDD Iran expert Ben Taleblu countered Borrell by saying: It is set to become an accelerator to yet another nuclear crisis with Iran. “
“Instead of re-litigating our paths to mutual JCPOA compliance, it is time to come up with creative solutions to fix the gaps in the oversight and verification regimes of agreements far more important than the JCPOA,” he said. rice field.”
Middle East expert Ambassador Dennis Ross tweeted about additional flaws in nuclear talks: “Iran drops investigation into three undeclared sites where IAEA found traces of uranium to return to JCPOA Iran has not given any credible explanation for the traces; understandably they want the investigation to stop. They have something to hide.”
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The Iranian regime has boasted in recent weeks that it can develop nuclear weapons and even threatened to annihilate New York City with an atomic bomb, turning the metropolis into “hell-like ruins.”
President Biden’s negotiators in Vienna, Austria, are not trying to limit the production of Iran’s long-range missile program.
Both the Republican and Democratic administrations have named the Iranian regime as the worst state sponsor of international terrorism. The Iran nuclear deal does not include a provision to stop Tehran from supporting terrorism around the world.
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“Our position is clear. We are ready to conclude an agreement quickly based on the EU’s proposal,” a US State Department official said. [Iran] It has repeatedly said it is ready to return to mutual implementation. Let’s see if their actions match their words. “
The Biden administration is deeply involved in the deal with Iran, declaring the final document to be “the best and only basis for reaching an agreement.” Biden’s team in Vienna, including Biden’s special envoy for Iran, Robert Murray, has faced fierce criticism from human rights defenders and Iranian-Americans for ignoring gross human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran. .
As Biden presses to reach an allegedly flawed deal with Iran, the FBI issued three tweets Friday about Iran’s threats to Americans.
“The Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies are not only endangering the Middle East, they are also endangering the American people, American national security, and our nation’s critical infrastructure…,” FBI to 3.5 million followers He said in his first tweet directed at
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Murray’s critics want the Biden administration to address, for example, the 2019 massacre of nearly 1,500 peaceful protesters by the Iranian regime.
US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported that Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdulahian, said “the outcome of this issue will depend on whether the US wants a deal”. reportedly said.