U.S. Politics
As a goodwill gesture, the United States will withdraw its demand last fall that the U.N. Security Council enforce “snapback sanctions” against Iran, which the Trump administration had pushed for violating the deal.
“I believe that [Shimon Peres] would have viewed it as the practical realization of his vision for a new Middle East,” said Efrat Duvdevani.
The U.S. decision to remove the Houthis from the terror list plays into Tehran’s hands at the sensitive timing of the possibility of an American return to the nuclear agreement.
The move is a reversal of U.S. relations under the Trump administration, which had maintained steady contact with Mohammed bin Salman, also known as “MBS.”
“StandWithUs is confident that the desire of the state—to refuse to use taxpayer dollars to enter into contracts with companies that discriminate against Israel—will prevail,” said co-founder and CEO Roz Rothstein.
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder once asked the longtime U.S. statesman, who passed away at the age of 100 on Feb. 6, why he stood up for American and Israeli Jews when he was often pressured not to. He responded: “Because I thought you were right.”
Mahmoud Alavi’s remarks regarding Mohsen Fakhrizadeh or the future of Iran’s nuclear program have drawn heavy criticism in Iran, but it is unlikely they were uncalculated, or made without the approval of the country’s supreme leader.
Tehran has set its sights on the Gulf state due to its rapprochement with Israel and efforts to hinder Iran’s nuclear program.
Tehran has denied any such cooperation with North Korea, which the report contends “maintained and developed its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs, in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.”
The California Democrat’s statement drew immediate criticism on social media.
“There is nothing changed in the U.S. position,” says an administration official. “The United States wants Iran to [comply with] its JCPOA commitments, and if it does, the United States will do the same.”
“The more America procrastinates, the more it will ... appear that Mr. Biden’s administration doesn’t want to rid itself of Trump’s failed legacy,” says Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
