Biden's Iran policy makes zero sense

 Fred Fleitz:

By asking for a guarantee that U.S. will not withdraw from JCPOA, Iran’s leaders may keep U.S. out of this terrible deal.

Negotiations are said to be going well in Vienna to get the U.S. to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (the JCPOA) and convince Iran to reverse steps it took to back out of the agreement in response to former President Trump’s 2018 withdrawal. They could result in an agreement this summer.

Not only will such an agreement reinstate the deeply flawed Obama-era deal, without holding Iran accountable for cheating on its commitments. Any terms will provide the ayatollahs with a huge financial windfall worth over $150 billion when President Biden lifts the more than 2,000 sanctions that Mr. Trump imposed on the regime. Tehran is certain to spend these funds just like it did with the $150 billion in sanctions relief it received as part of the JCPOA in 2016: increasing its military budget, support of terrorist proxies, and meddling in regional crises.

Making this worse, Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi confirmed this week that Iran will not agree to the Biden administration’s proposed “Phase Two” talks that would follow a U.S. return to the JCPOA, the purpose of which would be to strengthen the nuclear deal, and address Iran’s missile program as well as its destabilizing activities in the Middle East and support for terrorism.

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The original deal was one of the dumbest deals in the history of deals and getting back into it is even dumber.  It never made any sense and if we do get back into the deal it is likely to lead to war in the Middle East as countries threatened by Iran look to preempt Iran's nuclear bomb-making ability.  They are not going to agree to Iran's genocidal ambitions.  They are not going to rely on Biden's vain promises.

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