Category: JCPOA

Talks With Iran Have Reached ‘Urgent Point’: White House

The White House says that if Iran keeps accelerating its nuclear program, it will soon be impossible to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. The eighth round of talks to revive the deal resumed in Vienna Tuesday and a day later, in defiance of Western demands to halt its ballistic missile work, Tehran unveiled a…


Iran Demands ‘Full Economic Concessions’ for Going Back to Nuclear Deal

Iran demanded world powers allow it to resume selling crude oil as negotiations continued Monday on salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal that the Trump administration withdrew from. Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian shifted the focus of negotiations on economic sanctions and asked for all embargoes on Iranian oil to be lifted. He wants to reach a point…


White House Warns of ‘Other Options’ if Diplomacy With Iran Fails

The White House says it is preparing in case diplomacy with Iran fails. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday that given ongoing advances in Iran’s nuclear program President Joe Biden has ordered his team to make preparations for the possibility that diplomacy fails and the United States must resort to other options….


UK, Israel Vow to Thwart Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

Britain and Israel have pledged to work together to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, as the two nations agree to boost collaboration on issues such as cybersecurity, defence, and trade. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK will “work flat out” to prevent Iran from securing nuclear weapons, after she signed a “memorandum…


Reviving Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal Means War, Not Peace

Commentary April 27 was an explosive Tuesday for the Middle East, explosive diplomatically in Vienna and Washington, but literally explosive in one incident: the drone boat attack on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea oil port of Yanbu. In Vienna, Austria, talks involving Iran, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia resumed, with the United States participating “indirectly.”…


France, Germany, UK ‘Concerned’ by Iran’s Latest Breach of Nuclear Deal

Governments of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom on Saturday voiced their concern over Iran’s latest breach of the nuclear deal. The statement came in response to a report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog stating that Iran has started working on uranium metal-based fuel for a research reactor. “We, the governments of France, Germany,…