{"id":33042,"date":"2021-09-27T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=33042"},"modified":"2021-09-27T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:55:40","slug":"high-time-for-u.s.to-wake-up-to-new-reality-iranian-foreign-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/33042\/high-time-for-u.s.to-wake-up-to-new-reality-iranian-foreign-ministry","title":{"rendered":"High time for U.S. to wake up to new reality: Iranian Foreign Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TEHRAN – The spokesman for Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry has once again reiterated Tehran\u2019s resolve to engage in only results-oriented talks to revive a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015, saying it is high time for the United States, which unilaterally quit the agreement, “to wake up to new reality.”<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly Iran speaks for Iran. Our mandate is to engage in only RESULTS-oriented dialogue,\u201d Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a tweet on Friday.<\/p>\n

He rejected talks for sake of talks and “the fallacy that economic terrorism works.”<\/p>\n

It is “high time for the party that unilaterally left JCPOA to wake up to new reality,\u201d Khatibzadeh said, referring to the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).<\/p>\n

Khatibzadeh\u2019s tweet came after Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Tehran is ready to resume talks on the JCPOA revival \u201cvery soon\u201d but the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is sending a \u201cnegative sign\u201d by keeping illegal sanctions on Tehran.<\/p>\n

\u201cContradictory messages\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abdollahian said on Friday that Biden is adding to \u201cthe thick file of the Trump sanctions against Iran.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

In interviews with journalists during the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, Abdollahian said that Iran would return \u201cvery soon\u201d to negotiations in Vienna. But Tehran, he said, had received \u201ccontradictory messages\u201d from Washington about restoring the agreement jettisoned by Donald Trump more than three years ago.<\/p>\n

In the talks in Vienna the Biden administration has been seeking a \u201clonger and stronger\u201d accord than the original JCPOA and that was the chief reason that why the sides failed to revive the accord before President Rouhani\u2019s presidency comes to an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not have a so-called \u2018longer and stronger\u2019 deal,\u201d Abdollahian told The New York Times in an interview on Thursday night at his hotel opposite the United Nations headquarters. The 2015 accord \u201chas a lot of harsh critics in Iran,\u201d he said, \u201cbut we accepted it.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Iranian FM says \u201cthe standard for us will be one to watch the action of U.S. officials and judge based on actions taken by Biden.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/cite><\/p>\n

The new foreign minister said the previous Iranian government had spent far too much energy negotiating lengthy, detailed agreements with the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe standard for us,\u201d said Abdollahian, \u201cwill be one to watch the action of U.S. officials and judge based on actions taken by President Biden,\u201d rather than on Biden\u2019s \u201cparadoxical statements.\u201d<\/p>\n

He suggested that the Iran deal went off the rails long before Trump took office. He said that President Barack Obama had worked, even after the accord was reached, to keep Iran from reaping the benefits of sanctions removal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to note that the violations began under Obama, and then President Trump,\u201d he said, saying that banks and energy companies pulled back from signing deals even when the agreement was in place.<\/p>\n

The New York Times said Abdollahian was right. It said many companies feared the rules would change again after the 2016 presidential election. That fear proved warranted, as Trump rescinded the deal and imposed new sanctions.<\/p>\n

The same could happen again, Abdollahian said, so Iran is learning how to live in a world of sanctions. \u201cWe will not tie the fate of our nation to the JCPOA,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cWe will return to the negotiations and will do so very quickly,\u201d he told The Times. \u201cBut if our counterparts don\u2019t change their behavior we may not reach the required result.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with NBC News on Thursday, the top Iranian diplomat also said Biden needed to back up his talk of diplomacy with concrete actions to show Iran that Washington is serious about restoring the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

Addressing the annual UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Biden claimed his willingness to rejoin the JCPOA and resolve the issue with Iran over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

The U.S. president said Washington was “working” with China, France, Russia, Britain and Germany to “engage Iran diplomatically and to seek a return to” the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

“We’re prepared to return to full compliance if Iran does the same,” he said, according to Press TV.<\/p>\n

However, Farid Zakaria, a Washington Post columnist, has recently expressed surprise at Biden normalizing Trump\u2019s foreign policy in many areas, including the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter almost eight months of watching policies, rhetoric and crises, many foreign observers have been surprised \u2014 even shocked \u2014 to discover that, in area after area, Biden\u2019s foreign policy is a faithful continuation of Donald Trump\u2019s and a repudiation of Barack Obama\u2019s,\u201d Zakaria wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Zakaria was understandably surprised at the continuation of Trump\u2019s policies by Biden. \u201cAnother striking example of Biden\u2019s surprisingly Trumpian foreign policy is the Iran deal, one of the landmark accomplishments of the Obama administration. Throughout his election campaign, Biden argued that Trump\u2019s withdrawal from that agreement had been a cardinal error and that, as president, he would rejoin it as long as Iran would also move into compliance. His national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, described Trump\u2019s reimposing of secondary sanctions against Tehran despite opposition from U.S. allies as \u2018predatory unilateralism,\u2019\u201d he noted, adding, \u201cBut since he took office, Biden has failed to return to the deal and has even extended some sanctions. Having long argued against trying to renegotiate the deal, Biden officials now want to \u2018lengthen and strengthen\u2019 it. So far, this Trump-Biden strategy has not worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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