I don't know why Iran even bothers talking to us. We don't negotiate in good faith. From our founding, our treaties are made for our convenience and discarded at the first opportunity. I wish all the other signees of the JCPOA would have the courage to tell us they will forge their own agreements including trade and lifting sanctions despite our bully-threats. At some point, people of better will than the USA need to stand up to us once and "for all" (in its broadest context).
I see no hope in rejoining the JCPOA. Biden has surrounded himself with people that still live in a fantasy world of our short-lived unipolar moment, with all the hubris and arrogance that implies. Leaving all of Trump’s sanctions in place, while taking provocative actions against Russia in the Ukraine, and against China in Taiwan shows they have learned nothing from our disastrous policies of the last 20 years. The Biden administration is failing on multiple levels and succeeding only in accelerating US decline.
"I have no inside information about this, but it has seemed pretty clear that the reason that the Biden administration refused to go first and make concessions was that they were deathly afraid being attacked by Iran hawks for being 'weak.'"
Respectfully, I disagree. Biden had campaigned on restoring the JCPOA, so in fact doing so would not make him look any "weaker".
Biden does not revive the JCPOA because he *is* a weakling, a pathetic little sniveling weakling like Trump, cowering before Saudi Arabia and Israel.
I think the ship has sailed. Biden lacks the courage, political will, and poll numbers to take a chance on just reversing the Trump-era sanctions to get the deal done. He can always just blame Trump for blowing up the JCPOA and tying his hands when history books write the story of how the nuclear arms race in the Middle East started in earnest in 2019. Give a politician an easy "out" and he will take it everytime.
Also, it seems like the prominent-pundits-of-posterity and their sources are sensing the writing is on the wall and have started posturing for the blame-game to come as Iran becomes a nuclear-threshold state.
I don't know why Iran even bothers talking to us. We don't negotiate in good faith. From our founding, our treaties are made for our convenience and discarded at the first opportunity. I wish all the other signees of the JCPOA would have the courage to tell us they will forge their own agreements including trade and lifting sanctions despite our bully-threats. At some point, people of better will than the USA need to stand up to us once and "for all" (in its broadest context).
I see no hope in rejoining the JCPOA. Biden has surrounded himself with people that still live in a fantasy world of our short-lived unipolar moment, with all the hubris and arrogance that implies. Leaving all of Trump’s sanctions in place, while taking provocative actions against Russia in the Ukraine, and against China in Taiwan shows they have learned nothing from our disastrous policies of the last 20 years. The Biden administration is failing on multiple levels and succeeding only in accelerating US decline.
"I have no inside information about this, but it has seemed pretty clear that the reason that the Biden administration refused to go first and make concessions was that they were deathly afraid being attacked by Iran hawks for being 'weak.'"
Respectfully, I disagree. Biden had campaigned on restoring the JCPOA, so in fact doing so would not make him look any "weaker".
Biden does not revive the JCPOA because he *is* a weakling, a pathetic little sniveling weakling like Trump, cowering before Saudi Arabia and Israel.
I think the ship has sailed. Biden lacks the courage, political will, and poll numbers to take a chance on just reversing the Trump-era sanctions to get the deal done. He can always just blame Trump for blowing up the JCPOA and tying his hands when history books write the story of how the nuclear arms race in the Middle East started in earnest in 2019. Give a politician an easy "out" and he will take it everytime.
Also, it seems like the prominent-pundits-of-posterity and their sources are sensing the writing is on the wall and have started posturing for the blame-game to come as Iran becomes a nuclear-threshold state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/opinion/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-us-israel.html