Senior White House official: It is very unlikely that there will be a return to the nuclear agreement with Iran in the near future - voila! news

2022-07-27T18:38:17.538Z

President Biden's senior adviser on Middle East affairs said in a closed briefing that due to the fact that a return to the agreement with Iran is not in sight, the American administration intends to use sanctions and international isolation against Iran in the meantime "but without escalating the situation unnecessarily"

Senior White House official: It is highly unlikely that there will be a return to the nuclear deal with Iran in the near future

Barak Ravid

07/27/2022

Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 5:16 p.m. Updated: 9:27 p.m.

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In the video: Lapid calls for the full return of the sanctions on Iran (Photo: Roni Kanfo)

United States President Joe Biden's senior adviser on Middle East affairs, Brett McGurk, said last week in a closed briefing for experts from research institutes in Washington that the White House estimates that it is "very unlikely" that there will be a return to the nuclear agreement with Iran in the near future, three American sources said. who participated in the briefing.

why is it important

The White House's pessimistic assessment comes when the nuclear talks with Iran are at an impasse and increases the pressure on the Biden administration to formulate an alternative plan of action to deal with the Iranian nuke.

The President of Iran, Ibrahim Raisi (Photo: AP)

Behind the Scenes

According to three American sources who participated in the closed briefing, McGarrack said that the reason a new nuclear agreement has not been reached so far is Iran's inability to make a decision.
Biden's top adviser said he believes Iran wants the United States to "add more ingredients to the pot" to help Iranian officials interested in the deal convince Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to give the green light.
"We're not going to do that," McGurk said.
He noted that due to the fact that the return to the nuclear agreement is not in sight, the Biden administration intends to use sanctions and international isolation against Iran in the meantime "but without escalating the situation unnecessarily".
The US president's senior adviser on Middle East affairs said that Biden would use force only as a last resort.
He noted that the dispute with Israel is not over the question of using force against Iran's nuclear program, but rather over the question of whether the United States should continue to try to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement or change the goal of achieving a new agreement that will be stronger and longer.
The White House did not respond to the statements, but did not deny them either.

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the situation picture

The last round of indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran, which took place in Qatar about a month ago, ended without results.
Senior American officials said that no date has been set for another round of talks.
During President Biden's visit to Israel, he stated that the United States "will not wait forever" for Iran to respond to its offer to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Senior American officials are concerned that the nuclear agreement is approaching the stage where its revival will become irrelevant as a result of the progress of the Iranian nuclear program and the restrictions that Iran imposes on the activities of UN inspectors at its nuclear facilities.
The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Islami, said Monday that UN inspectors' cameras will not be reinstalled at Iran's nuclear facilities unless the United States and other powers return to the 2015 nuclear deal.

"We will not wait forever for Iran to return to the agreement."

Biden (Photo: Reuters)

what are they saying

European Union Foreign Minister Joseph Borrell, who leads the mediation between the United States and Iran, wrote in an article published in the Financial Times newspaper on Tuesday that after 15 months of negotiations he has concluded that the ability to reach further compromises has been exhausted.
Burrell wrote that there is a draft agreement on the table that deals in detail with both the lifting of sanctions on Iran and the steps Iran needs to take to limit its nuclear program.
"The text of the agreement represents the best deal that can be achieved. Decisions need to be made now. If this deal is rejected, we could degenerate into a dangerous nuclear crisis," Burrell wrote.
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdulahian told Oman's Foreign Minister in a telephone conversation between them on Tuesday that reaching an agreement depends on the conduct and flexibility of the United States.
"Iran is serious in its attempt to reach an agreement that will last," he said.

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