Only days after top Biden national security advisors stated they were “a long way” from rejoining the failed Obama-Biden 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Team Biden is now suggesting an accelerated timeline to rejoin the pact. Biden National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan said on Friday that Iran is closer to building a bomb now than it was when President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal in 2018, and putting the nuclear program “in a box” is the first imperative.
According to the Washington Post, Sullivan contradicted Joe Biden and other advisors who recently stated that Iran needed to comply first, and include other serious issues, before re-engaging on the nuclear deal, when he said:
We are going to have to address Iran’s other bad behavior, malign behavior, across the region, but from our perspective, a critical early priority has to be to deal with what is an escalating nuclear crisis as they move closer and closer to having enough fissile material for a weapon. And we would like to make sure that we reestablish some of the parameters and constraints around the program that have fallen away over the course of the past two years.
As Vox noted, the “Trump administration abandoned the agreement in 2018 and reimposed strict economic sanctions on Iran, further decimating the nation’s already struggling economy… In defiance, Tehran purposefully surpassed caps on its nuclear development established under the deal as a pressure tactic to scare the US back into the accord.”
It seems Iran’s scare tactic is working on some in the Biden administration, like Sullivan, but not others.
During her Tuesday confirmation hearing to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines expressed her views on rejoining the nuclear accord:
“I think, frankly, we’re a long ways from that,” adding that Biden and his team would “also have to look at the ballistic missile issues” — as well as Iran’s other “destabilizing activities” before rejoining the nuclear agreement.
Vox added that Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken made similar comments.
“We are a long way from there,” he said about rejoining the deal, speaking at his Tuesday confirmation hearing. “We would then have to evaluate whether they were actually making good if they say they are coming back into compliance with their obligations, and then we would take it from there.”
But it wasn’t just Biden’s top advisors, it was Biden himself. During her first briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki echoed those two remarks, noted Vox:
“The president has made clear that he believes that, through follow-on diplomacy, the United States should seek to lengthen and strengthen nuclear constraints on Iran and address other issues of concern,” she said. “Iran must resume compliance with significant nuclear constraints under the deal in order for that to proceed.”
These earlier statements led Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert and director of the foreign policy program at the liberal Brookings Institution, to believe that Biden officials are on the same page when it comes to Iran. She argued that this indicated the new team wasn’t pushing for a quick reentry into the nuclear accord.
“That would be my interpretation of remarks by Haines, Blinken, and Psaki,” said Maloney to Vox.
Sullivan’s latest remarks appear to alter that assessment considerably – and Team Biden seems to not be on the same page regarding Iran. This is a bad sign for a new administration claiming to be bringing a coherent orderly foreign policy team back to the White House.
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You are retarded
I think they to hire Trump to handle their foreign policy.
Back to the status quo of totally incompetent government leadership. Thanks democrat voters for helping to destroy our nation.
I think they need to hire Trump to handle their foreign policy.
They can’t be serious….
Oh… Wait.
He probably cut this new deal with Iran while he was HIDING IN HIS BASEMENT…!
How many millions of U. DOLLARS are the idiot dematurds going to send them this time ?
After obama and now biden America again ,now is the laughing stock of the world and some so-called Americans from within! All those America hating countries will now flex their muscles whereas before with president Trump they didn’t! After all America does have the enemy from within as in the anti-American democrats, Rinos and their tools for hate and division of America the bought out biased medias propaganda LIES and their Fraudulent means of All elections now! Americans cannot stop domestic tyranny from within itself so how do they [other countries] expect foreign tyranny to be stopped and they know it!
Another Biden scandal, why are we not surprised
Biden and his “team” are morons and might be dumber than the idiots that voted him in but that might be a stretch. They should know that you can’t buy compliance from the Iranians buy shoveling money to them under the table like Obama did. Won’t work. Trump had the right idea and his embargo would have worked if he’d had some support. These democrat numb skulls will destroy the world. They’re just too stupid to compete.
Maybe they will sub contract the next four years to Trump and let him run the office? Since Sleepy commie joe and toes up Harris can’t handle it. I’m afraid Iran’s about to get the nuke with Obummer’s help. Israel says they won’t allow it. That looks like the start of WWIII. So where do we fit in with Commie Joe at the helm? Who is Iran’s target? United States or Israel or both? Coming soon to Iran, the biggest glass lined punch bowl on earth that glows in the dark. Punch too hot to drink for next 10,000,000 years.
Well, let’s send them a couple more pallets of cash and then give into all their demands.
Thank God, Israel does not count on anyone to come through for them .
When the time comes , Israel will solve the Iranian disaster !
Go back to sleep Joe, in fact , after you are finishing destroying our country , go straight to hell !
Having Biden / Harris in office is the scariest thing ever. Neither one of them are equipped to handle the enormous responsibilities of their offices. God help us all.
Why don’t you people in the inner circle at the White House just good around and talk until Iran gets a nuclear weapon and decides to use it. I have an idea. Call Donald Trump. If they get and use a nuclear weapon your administration is OVER!!!!!!!!!
He is dumber than a fence post,He wants to punish trump so bad he is throwing america under the bus with trump. The swamp is making a move to destroy all the good that trump did for the working man and our national security
What did voters expect from senile Democrat sleepy Joe Biden having 47 years of non-executive experience, one year at a time, always wrong!