WASHINGTON: With nuclear talks set to resume this month with Iran, an increasingly sceptical US President Joe Biden is seeking the right balance between threats and incentives to bring Tehran back into compliance with a 2015 deal. Iran has agreed to resume talks on Nov 29 with world powers after a five-mon
WASHINGTON: With nuclear talks set to resume this month with Iran, an increasingly sceptical US President Joe Biden is seeking the right balance between threats and incentives to bring Tehran back into compliance with a 2015 deal.
During the break, Iran has kept pursuing its nuclear work, leading even Western supporters of the 2015 accord to warn that the deal could become useless due to Tehran's advances. Biden entered the talks in Vienna - held indirectly, with Iran refusing direct meetings with US envoy Rob Malley - in hopes of a quick revival of the agreement from which former president Donald Trump withdrew the United States.
Iran, for its part, wants a guarantee that the United States will maintain its commitments - an unlikely promise for Biden, whose rivals in Trump's Republican Party have made no secret that they would shift course if they win back the White House in 2024. Russia's ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, called Biden's pledge"a significant step towards assurances and guarantees Iran is looking for."But Western nations have increasingly questioned whether Raisi, as well as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, are interested in maintaining the accord and will watch carefully in Vienna to see how Iran negotiates.
"If the United States wants to reduce the risk of a conflict and give diplomacy a chance to succeed, the Biden administration is going to have to restore Iran's fear of a US reaction and apply pressure far more effectively," he wrote in Foreign Policy.
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