The Biden administration’s negotiations on a revised version of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are dying in the wake of mass anti-establishment protests that have swept the Islamic Republic, according to a State Department spokesman for the Trump administration.
“No room, no space [the administration] “It’s a political disaster,” Morgan Ortagus, who worked for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said Friday afternoon during a panel discussion at the Richard Nixon Foundation’s Grand Strategy Summit in Washington, D.C. will be,” he said. A disaster for the Iranian people who reject this regime,” he said.
How could the Biden administration “financially empower those who oppress women and teenagers with whom we should stand and stand?” Ortagus asked.
Ortagus, who played a central role in the Trump administration’s 2018 decision to abandon the nuclear deal and severely sanction the Iranian regime, said the Biden administration currently has “no influence” over the Iranian regime. ‘ said. Nationwide protests that swept across Iran last month were likely to be the final nail in negotiations over a review of the nuclear deal, she said. The Biden administration has condemned the Iranian government’s violent crackdown on protesters, but has refrained from repeating protesters’ calls for regime change.
Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden’s team “had no plans on Iran other than going back to the JCPOA[the official acronym for the Iran Agreement],” Ortagus said. Ortagus said about three-quarters of the Senate would have rejected it had the administration managed to come up with another “weak and pathetic deal.”Iran ‘played’, she added [Biden] 18 months,” and “I don’t see any strategy going forward.”
John Alterman, a former State Department official who heads the Middle East program at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies think tank, disputed Ortagus’ assessment. He said the Trump administration’s so-called biggest pressure campaign against Tehran, including the toughest sanctions regime in history, failed because US allies were not on board.
Alterman said, “To claim that the Biden administration thought the JCPOA was trying to solve Iran is wildly wrong and perhaps disingenuous.” Our records, which we left behind, have been checked quite a bit.”
Alterman said he agreed with the Biden administration’s response to anti-regime protests in Iran.
“While the Biden administration has indeed taken a reasonable course to criticize the Iranian government’s abuses, it must be careful not to speak for or defend protesters.
However, Iranian dissident groups in the United States and other Western nations are calling for a more aggressive response by the Biden administration, with some saying that US special envoy to Iran Robert Roberts, who has become the face of the Trump administration’s Tehran diplomacy,・There are calls for the president to dismiss Murray. .
Ortagus said the Trump administration has never focused on regime change in Iran and has stopped it from fostering terrorism across the Middle East and Europe.
“The conversation was not about fixing the regime or choosing who will lead Iran. That’s for the Iranian people to decide,” she said. There has never been a “I was involved in and was part of” discussion involving a change of government.
