America’s top diplomat for negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran said on October 30 that the US is not going to “waste time” trying to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal alive.
President Biden’s special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, said that “It is not on our agenda. We are not going to focus on something which is inert when other things are happening…and we are not going to waste our time on it… if Iran has taken the position it has taken.”
Apparently reading from the script, Malley insistence that “we are not going to focus” on the negotiations echoes earlier statements from the State Department. On October 12, State Department spokesman Ned Price used the same formulation, saying that the negotiations are “not our focus right now.”
The Biden administration has walked so far away from the negotiations that another senior US official recently said that because of Iran’s response to protests and because of its support for Russia in the war in Ukraine, “even if Iran came back to the table today and said it wanted a nuclear deal, the U.S. was unlikely to move forward.”
That senior Biden official went on to say that the US is virtually considering the deal dead and is “taking steps to ensure the US has a ready military option.” Malley, while denying that diplomacy is totally dead, echoed those words too, declaring that Biden “is ready to use military means as a last resort to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.”
The US is not wasting its time renegotiating the JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran because of Iran’s response to protests or because Iran is supporting Russia. Were Iran developing a nuclear weapon, it would be worthwhile negotiating a nuclear agreement to prevent it from getting one whatever its position on protests or Russia. The US is wasting its time renegotiating a nuclear agreement to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb because the US has admitted that Iran is not developing a nuclear bomb.
On October 27, after a long delay, the US Department of Defense finally released its Nuclear Posture Review. The review contained a bombshell that failed to explode in the media because it was understandably lost in the glare of three other bombshells that the Secretary of Defense dropped.
Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the new book Zionism vs. the West: How Talmudic Ideology is Undermining Western Culture. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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