It’s hard to argue that the current state of Iran’s nuclear program is somehow less threatening than it would have been had the U.S. not backed out of the Iran Nuclear Agreement. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
On Monday the UN’s nuclear monitoring agency IAEA announced that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile now stands at over 30 times the threshold set by the 2015 deal limit which the US unilaterally pulled out of under the Trump administration in 2018.
The IAEA also confirmed that there have been no talks or contact with Tehran over its nuclear program in the wake of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi on May 19, when his helicopter crashed into the side of a mountain near the Azerbaijan border.
Despite at this point Iran’s having expanded its near-weapons-grade fissile material to a record level, the Biden administration has reportedly been urging Western allies to back off plans to impose retribution or punishing actions on the Islamic Republic.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the policy redirect this week, noting that it has put Washington on a collision course with leading European powers France and Britain over Iran nuclear policy. But after all, Biden has a November election to worry about, and apparently is keeping greater focus on prices at the pump.
“The U.S. is arguing against an effort by Britain and France to censure Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s member-state board in early June, the diplomats said,” WSJ reports. “The U.S. has pressed a number of other countries to abstain in a censure vote, saying that is what Washington will do, they said.”
Barry told him no to?
This will give Israel an alibi to burn the Middle East down?
This just in from Conan:
Hawk As Weapon