Iran’s leadership is caught in a “vicious circle” that cuts it off from its own people and the international community, the US envoy said, adding that Washington is more concerned with Tehran’s decision to arm Russia in Ukraine and with Iran’s suppression. He added that he was focused. Rather than negotiations to revive the nuclear deal, its internal protests.
“The more Iran suppresses, the tighter the sanctions.
“The more isolated they feel, the more they look to Russia. is lower, so it is true that the vicious cycle is all self-reinforcing.
“Suppressing protests and Iranian support for Russia’s war in Ukraine is where we focus because that’s where things are happening and where we want to make a difference. ‘Murray added.
US National Intelligence Director Avril Haynes said last weekend there was disturbing evidence that Russia was seeking to deepen military cooperation with Iran. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri was in Moscow over the weekend.
A senior European diplomat said Iran was paying a huge price for its decision to become the only country to arm Russia in a war with Ukraine. It’s a massive miscalculation by Iran,” the diplomat said.
The Iranian government says protests have dwindled over the past week as a crackdown has tightened, but it has called on protesters to take to the streets on December 14.
Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said on Saturday that the government was reviewing the law on the compulsory hijab, one of the issues that sparked protests that have lasted more than 10 weeks. He also said the “ethics police” responsible for enforcing the dress code were “closed”, but did not provide further details.
The next show of US solidarity with protesters will likely come when it submits a motion to exclude Iran from the UN commission on the status of women in a vote scheduled for Dec. 14, says Malley. said.
The move follows a UN Human Rights Council vote on a motion put forward by Germany and Iceland to establish a fact-finding commission to investigate protests that Iran says it will boycott. In a letter to the United Nations, Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi called on the organization to investigate sexual harassment of women in prison.
Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Bahidi has set up an internal fact-finding commission, but he said on Sunday political parties and student representatives would not sit there.
Some senior European diplomats believe Iran’s leadership has reached an irreversible tipping point from which it will never recover. A diplomat said: The Islamic Republic – regime – has finally lost contact with their people, 43 years after him. This is unlike what has happened in the last 43 years.
“They are having a dialogue with themselves, but the majority consider the reform proposals largely irrelevant.”
The diplomat also noted tensions within the regime over how to respond to the protests, saying:
Diplomats say the regime’s obvious loss of domestic support has fueled debates inside Iran about whether to ease its isolation through an expanded alliance with Russia, or instead try to revive the nuclear deal. I believe.
Murray’s remarks suggest that the US believes Iran has made a series of fateful decisions to fully revive the nuclear deal. door was not closed.
The reinstatement of the pact was about to be sealed in August, but the US view is that Iran will sign a new deal apart from a pact that calls for the United Nations Nuclear Inspectorate’s investigation of Iran’s past nuclear activities at three sites to be dropped. added a request. UN inspectors said Iran’s explanation of the presence of nuclear particles was not credible. Iran said its investigation into past activities was inspired by Israel.
With United Nations inspectors given the most limited access to Iran’s nuclear program and the increasing use of more advanced centrifuges, Western nuclear negotiators have warned that Iran will not produce a nuclear bomb. Haynes acknowledged that it could take weeks before he could produce enough enriched uranium to build. said no.
