Iran: giving up on Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

The question of who goes first is fundamentally childish if there is trust, but America has forfeited the right to demand that Iran trust it. Biden and Blinken must know that demanding Iran go first dooms the negotiations, and that a rigged election in Iran will shortly close the door on the deal for good. So they must have decided that this is the least bad outcome (for them).

'Lifting Trump’s sanctions, @SecBlinken, is a legal& moral obligation, NOT negotiating leverage. Didn’t work for Trump—won’t work for you,' tweeted Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, pictured, late last month. But what if U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (and President Joe Biden) have just decided that reviving the 2015 nuclear deal is a lost cause?Caricature courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

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BY GWYNNE DYER

June 14, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—“Lifting Trump’s sanctions, @SecBlinken, is a legal& moral obligation, NOT negotiating leverage. Didn’t work for Trump—won’t work for you,” tweeted Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif late last month. But what if U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (and P...

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