President Joe Biden’s administration has struggled to maintain a coherent Iran policy under the various pressures raised by the Ukraine war.
at a press conference on Tuesday State Department spokesman Ned Price faced questions About what the US was going to do about Iran’s alleged arms supply to Russia. His answer on US options at the United Nations was, To the Twitter feed where his claims were denied by Gabriel NaronhaIran adviser during the Trump administration 2019-21.
Price argued that the United States is pursuing “all relevant and appropriate tools in its toolkit” to curb the reported supply of Iranian military drones. Sanctions on Iranian commanders and defense companies.
Price advocated a “snapback” of UN sanctions against Iran on the grounds that such arms supplies would violate UN Security Council Resolution 2231 passed in 2015 to approve the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the JCPOA. to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). (Joint Comprehensive Action Plan).
Price told journalists: Expired together probably won’t fare very well in the UN Security Council. “
The spokesman also suggested that US options for snapback were compromised by withdrawing from the JCPOA in 2018. However, Price’s explanation of how the “snapback” works was contradicted by Naronya, saying that Russia would not retain a veto in such circumstances.
Ned Price, U.S. State Department Spokesperson
However technical the argument may be, any link between the war in Ukraine and the JCPOA undermines supporters of the 2015 accord that counterproliferation should be treated separately.
The Biden administration, which has promised to revive the JCPOA, has been in talks with Iran for more than a year, but no deal has been reached.Negotiations are currently frozen, with Biden officials Special Envoy Rob Murray at Monday’s Carnegie Endowment debate – argued that their intention remains the restoration of the JCPOA.
At the same time, the United States is desperate to prevent the Ukraine war from escalating.apart from send at least $17 billion in military aid Against Kyiv, Washington rejected advanced weapons. Mr Price said on Tuesday that Russia’s military position had “been severely degraded”, and that its “sophisticated weapons and technology” were the result of defeat on the battlefield and a lack of international support for the chips and sensors needed for drones and missiles. restrained by both U.S. restrictions on access to
On the same page as Europe
Another US perspective on Ukraine and Iran is their relationship with Europe. In a speech at the Carnegie Endowment, Murray highlighted how the Biden administration has overcome the divide with Europeans left by President Trump.
Murray said on Monday that the JCPOA revival “is not our focus right now” while Trump’s maximum pressure “didn’t work” and that “the real experiment failed. ” he claimed. In contrast, he argued that “there is nothing that we are not doing now for the sake of a possible future nuclear deal” and that “we and the European are completely on the same page.”
The United States and Europe are “standing shoulder to shoulder and expressing support for the Iranian people at this time when they are facing regime violence…We are connecting what is very important. We want to have a common front against Iran’s destabilizing activities, human rights abuses, or nuclear program that has been really successful in fixing it.”
