U.S. Foreign Policy
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine should remind us that there are nations you simply cannot trust,” the former Connecticut senator tells JNS.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price had said that a new agreement was “close,” adding that “it’s really down to a very small number of outstanding issues.”
They write: “As the State Department has often noted in reference to a nuclear agreement with Iran, ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.’ We hope that no agreement is finalized without additionally addressing these concerns.”
A watered-down agreement would not hold Iran accountable for its malicious actions and support of terrorism throughout the Middle East and or its ongoing development of ballistic missiles, say think-tank experts on a recent Zoom call.
“This game is costing us. This process of just holding and holding and holding makes no sense whatsoever,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
“Putin must stop or Putin must pay,” the former U.S. vice president tells Israeli newspaper.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman also said that the country could decrease investments in the United States.
The new agreement taking shape will pave the way for Iran to become a nuclear threshold state, says former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It is a horrible deal. We should oppose it with every fiber of our being.”
The former prime minister calls for Jerusalem to sound the alarm on the agreement emerging in Vienna.
“Israel will always retain its freedom of action to defend itself,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, adding that Israel is “building unprecedented military capabilities. We have to be by far the strongest country in the region.”
If negotiators don’t come to an agreement, America’s European allies will have seen that there was an effort to get Iran back in compliance with the JCPOA and the international order, that Iran did not comply, and that sanctions must be implemented.
“The relationship between Qatar and the United States is bizarre, and makes no strategic sense,” said Yigal Carmon, founder and president of the Middle East Media Research Institute.
