Last week’s attack on Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national for plotting to murder former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches. Along with Iran it negotiated a return to the 2015 nuclear deal.
However, a resolution may be tantalisingly close. Iran’s latest response to an EU proposal both as Europe and the U.S. which was described as the West’s final offer. To forge a lasting agreement the administration faces new and potentially insurmountable domestic political hurdles.
To negotiations with a country whose leadership have refused to rescind the death threats against Rushdie or Bolton deal, critics in Congress who have long vowed to blow up any pact have ratcheted up their opposition.
Apart from this, by killing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Iran envoy Brian Hook, both of whom remain under 24*7 taxpayer-paid security protection To avenge the Trump administration’s 2020 assassination of a top Iranian general Iran also vows.
Although such threats are not covered by the deal which relates solely to Iran’s nuclear program, they underscore deal opponent’s arguments that Iran cannot be trusted with the billions of dollars in sanctions relief. However, to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action it will receive when and if the U.S. returns.
For the Obama administration that President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018 it is a signature foreign policy accomplishment. According to Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said that this is a tougher deal to sell than the 2015 deal. During this time there are no illusions that it will lead to greater US-Iran cooperation or to serve moderate Iranian behaviour.
He also said that the Iranian government stands to get tens of billions in sanctions relief and the organizing principle of the regime will continue to be opposition against its critics to the United States and violence, both at abroad and home.
With Rushdie’s alleged attacker Iran has denied any link, an American citizen who was indicted for attempted murder and has pleaded not guilty in the Aug 12 stabbing at a literary event in Western New York.
But Iranian state media have celebrated Iran’s long-standing antipathy toward Rushdie since the 1988 publication of his book “The Satanic Verses”, which some believe in insulting to Islam.
Media linked to Iran’s leadership have lauded the attacker for following via on a 1989 decree or fatwa calling for Rushdie to be killed that was signed by Iran’s then Supreme leadership Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. And the Bolton is a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps who was charged with plotting to murder.
The Justice Department alleges the IRGC tried to pay $300,000 to the people in the US to avenge the death of Qassam Suleimani, the head of its elite Quds Force who was killed by U.S. airstrikes in Iraq in 2020. On the other hand, Bolton said that it certainly looks like the attack of Salman Rushdie had a Revolutionary Guard component.
Between its nuclear activities on the one hand and its terrorist activities on the other hand when dealing with the government of Iran we have got the various ways to stop this artificial division.
On U.S. granting terrorism sanctions relief amid ongoing terror plots soil is somewhere between outrageous and lunacy said by the Rich Goldberg who was a former Trump administration national security council staffer and long time deal critic who is now a senior fellow at the Fountain for Defence of Democracies which has also lobbied against a return to the JCPOA.
To change their long-held belief that an Iran with a nuclear weapon would be more dangerous and less constrained than an Iran without one, administration officials contend that they are unrelated to the nuclear issue and do nothing despite the seriousness of the plots.
Moreover, if Republicans win back control of Congress in the midterms, they may be able to nullify any sanctions relief, while deal critics in the current Congress are unlikely to be able to kill a deal.
The GOP minority on the House Armed Services said in a tweet on Wednesday, that even if Iran accepts President Biden’s full capitulation and agrees to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal, Congress will never vote to remove sanctions. In fact, to strengthen sanctions against Iran the Republicans in Congress will work.
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