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After attack on Iran's top scientist: Biden's last hopes?

2020-11-30T11:47:10.679Z


After Biden's victory, there were hopes in Iran of a rapprochement with the archenemy USA. The attack on a nuclear physicist could destroy the prospect of quieter times.


After Biden's victory, there were hopes in Iran of a rapprochement with the archenemy USA.

The attack on a nuclear physicist could destroy the prospect of quieter times.

  • The question of who was responsible for the fatal attack on a top Iranian scientist has not yet been answered.

  • Tehran is now apparently looking for proximity to the EU.

  • The great hope in the still smoldering dispute will soon be sitting in the White House.

Washington - You will probably never know officially whether the successful

attack on the prominent Iranian atomic bomb inventor Mohsen Fachrisadeh was

the work of the Israeli secret service Mossad or a "farewell gift" from US President

Donald Trump *

to the mullahs in Tehran.

After all, Trump had already shown in the killing of the Iranian General

Kassem Soleimani

that he is not squeamish about those whom he

sees

as a

threat to American interests

.

And according to reports, he even asked the Pentagon about the chances of

bombing Iranian nuclear facilities

in the last few months of his tenure

- which the military are said to have talked him out of.

But it is also possible that

Israel, the USA and Saudi Arabia

cooperated behind the scenes to eliminate the scientist and his guards - and thus send a clear signal to a regime that continues to

pose

the

greatest threat to peace,

not just with its military nuclear ambitions

in the Middle East

and now had to recognize: It could not protect its most important scientist.

+

Funeral: Uniformed men carry the coffin of the killed nuclear physicist Mohsen Fachrisadeh to the funeral service.

© afp

After attack on Iranian scientists: Biden wants to revive Obama's nuclear deal

Regardless of the question of who

deserves the laurels

for this

efficient action,

the

controversial nuclear deal

that Trump had canceled and

that Obama negotiated with the German government in Berlin, the EU and four other nations comes to the fore.

The

designated US President Joe Biden *

has already indicated that he would like to reanimate the agreement as soon as possible if Iran

returns

to the

rules of

the

game

.

For the Democrats, the numerous points that continue to

speak

against a

new version of the "deal"

and that show that the Obama agreement - who urgently needed a

foreign policy legacy

- was knitted with a hot needle, are

apparently taking a back seat for the Democrats

.

Obama argued at the time that the treaties would prevent Iran from getting an atomic bomb and that nuclear activities would keep all of its nuclear activities peaceful.

But much of it was

wishful thinking from the US President

, who then had Tehran flown in overnight pallets with cash worth around $ 400 million in 2016.

Video: Killed Iranian nuclear researcher laid out in a shrine

After the attack on Iranian scientists: Tehran wanted to disregard the nuclear deal even in Obama's time

Above all, after the agreement, the

international community's hope

that Tehran would adjust its aggressive behavior in the region was disappointed.

The opposite was the case.

Iran participated in the

civil war in Syria

in favor of the despot

Bashar al-Assad

and thereby supported the mass deaths of tens of thousands of civilians.

Tehran, which continues to promote the destruction of Israel, is still promoting the

Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist organizations

.

Added to this were the well-known attempts to work past the “deal” commitments before the end of the Obama era.

Like

transferring enrichment centrifuges

to underground bunkers.

In any case, it is not possible to reliably check whether the

upper limits

agreed in the agreement

for the storage of enriched uranium have been

complied with.

Because one of the many loopholes in the original treaty is that - recorded in a separate agreement - military installations

are absolutely taboo

for the

UN inspectors

.

This gives only limited value to any of the inspectors' findings.

After attack on Iranian scientists: Tehran hopes for courageous Europe

Nevertheless, the

EU

has

praised the agreement as a “last resort” from the start and tried to actively circumvent the Trump administration's Iran sanctions against international companies.

Tehran therefore sees the EU as a close ally and has now even

appealed to

friends in Europe

after the attack

not to be cowardly and

to condemn

the liquidation as

“international terrorism”

.

The fact that this demand comes from a major terrorist propagandist seems like

pure cynicism

. But the hope of returning to “normal” times in the

pursuit of nuclear armament

for the mullahs does not lie in Europe anyway, but in the

White House

from January 20, 2021

*

(Friedemann Diederichs) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network

Source: merkur

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