The US State Department said Tuesday that nuclear talks with Iran remain dormant and that while diplomacy is the preferred approach, other options remain on the table.
Spokesman Ned Price said: The United States has not observed any change from Iran’s side to justify resuming negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. His 18-month diplomatic effort for the Biden administration to reach a deal with Tehran stalled in early September.
“We continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve that goal, but we have always made it clear that we are not going to remove any options from the table. Israel, of course,” said Price. affirmed.
“What we pointed out was that the Iranians had killed their chances of a speedy return to mutual compliance with the JCPOA,” he said, referring to what the US called “extra” demands by Tehran in September. and said
He also reiterated earlier claims that the Biden administration’s focus is no longer on nuclear talks but on two issues: the protests in Iran and Tehran’s supply of kamikaze drones to Russia.
“Especially since September, we have been focused on standing up … for the fundamental freedoms of the Iranian people, deepening the military partnership between Iran and Russia and for Iran to war with Russia in Ukraine. to counter the support of ,” Price continued.
Asked if the US has discussed the issue of blocking Iran from supplying UAVs to Russia, which has been able to sabotage Iran’s nuclear power plants in the past, Price said: UAV technology and the dissemination of Iran’s her UAV technology to countries around the world, including Russia.
The Biden administration has swiftly begun talks with the new Israeli right-wing government, led by staunch JCPOA opponent Benjamin Netanyahu. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently met with Israel’s new Foreign Minister Ellie Cohen.he told Israel’s new Foreign Minister Eli Cohen In a 40-minute call, he said the JCPOA had ended and the US wanted the European Union to tighten sanctions against Iran.
Brinken’s reported statement that the JCPOA was “terminated” echoed statements made by President Joe Biden during a hotly contested election in early November. He was heard in the video saying that the JCPOA was “dead.”
Biden’s remarks were hailed by former Israeli government members who took credit for the failed negotiations. Former prime minister in a tweet on December 20 Neftali Bennett said“A marvelous achievement by our government! Quietly and through a series of diplomatic and other clever actions, we were able to prevent a return to the nuclear deal without confronting the United States.”
Mr Price was also asked at Tuesday’s briefing whether the administration would support a possible coalition of Iran’s opposition parties against the Islamic Republic.
He avoided a direct answer, saying, “First and foremost, this is a question for the Iranian people, how they want or want to organize.” However, he went on to say that he “lauded the anti-regime protest movement that has been sparked and carried out in many ways by Iranian women and girls, but that it is organic, crosses ethnic lines and It also applauds the fact that it crossed geographic boundaries, maintained a front within Iran, and was in a sense leaderless. I was able to keep going and keep working hard in a way that I couldn’t have done otherwise.”
Price also reaffirmed US support for the movement. “It is our role and responsibility to support their freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and all other universal rights and freedoms that belong to the Iranian people.”
