The Ayatollah regime and the signatories of the 2015 pact meet again after the unilateral rupture of the pact by Donald Trump
Since Monday, Vienna welcomes a new round of negotiations with Iran that seeks to resuscitate the 2015 nuclear pact, dead since Donald Trump decided to withdraw the United States and reimpose sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Representatives of Tehran meet with the rest of the signatories – Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China – and will hold indirect meetings with the Americans. The main objective of the ayatollah regime, whose delegation will be headed by Vice Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri Kani, is to demand that Washington lift the sanctions, especially those that affect the sale of oil, and offer guarantees that it will not violate the pact again.
Trump’s decision has achieved the opposite goal. Faced with pressure from the US and the ineffectiveness of Europe, the Islamic Republic has taken steps that have distanced it from the text signed six years ago in Vienna and, according to the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it is enriching every time more uranium, to levels close to that needed to make atomic weapons, while not cooperating with international inspections. Tehran insists that its program has “peaceful purposes”, but mistrust between both parties is great and it will not be easy to return to what was achieved in 2015.
Israel attacks
One of the countries that most applauded Trump’s decision was Israel, which these weeks is pushing so that Joe Biden’s team does not agree and maintain the sanctions route. Prime Minister Naftali Bennet warned the signatories of the risk posed by lifting the penalties so that “the flow of billions of dollars to Tehran in exchange for unsatisfactory restrictions” will arrive again.
The Israelis defend that their great adversary is only looking for time to seize the atomic bomb and on this day in which the negotiations in Vienna are resumed, the Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, travels to London and Paris to show the concern of his Government.
From the Jewish State they repeat that “all options are on the table” to stop their adversary, including a military operation, but US officials cited by ‘The New York Times’ have warned that “the attacks have been counterproductive because the Iranians they have been able to make an even more efficient system.
In the last 20 months there have been four explosions at nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic and one of the country’s leading scientists was killed, operations for which Tehran blames the Israelis. The conclusion of the experts quoted by the US newspaper is that these attacks have pushed Iran to “reduce the time it would take if it wanted the bomb from about a year to just a few weeks.”
The landmark 2015 agreement got the Iranians to commit to not enriching uranium above 3.67% and for four years they followed through, as confirmed by IAEA reports. Despite this, Trump imposed punishments again and the Iranian response was to raise the levels of enrichment to 60%, increasingly close to the 90% needed to achieve the bomb. The Iranian authorities have also decided to reduce the degree of cooperation with IAEA inspectors whom they accuse of having provided information to the Israelis for their attacks.
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