Biden Must Abandon Nuclear Negotiations with Iran

by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 10, 2021

• The latest report by the International Monetary Fund makes especially grim reading for the Iranian regime, as it shows the country’s foreign reserves have collapsed from around $140 billion in 2015 to just $4 billion today.
• Iran’s perilous economic state has, unsurprisingly, prompted nationwide protests at the regime’s gross mismanagement of the economy.

• With Mr Raisi’s triumph, the hardliners have secured victory for a man with the perfect qualifications for crushing anti-regime dissent…. Under his presidency, the Iranian people can expect more of the same as the regime intensifies its efforts to tighten its hold on power.
• Mr Raisi’s comments effectively mean that Mr Biden’s hopes of expanding the terms of the nuclear deal are dead in the water. Consequently, rather than persisting with the nuclear talks in Vienna, the US leader should cut his losses, and end the charade of trying to revive the ill-considered nuclear deal with Tehran.

US President Joe Biden must give serious consideration to abandoning his ill-conceived plan to revive the nuclear deal with Tehran following the election victory of Iran’s new hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi.

US President Joe Biden must give serious consideration to abandoning his ill-conceived plan to revive the nuclear deal with Tehran following the election victory of Iran’s new hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi.

The appointment of the 60-year-old Mr Raisi as Iran’s eighth president since the 1979 revolution means that, far from being prepared to make any further concessions in the nuclear talks, the regime under his leadership is certain to adopt a far more aggressive and uncompromising stance in its dealings with the US and its allies.

The hardening of Iran’s position can already be detected in the recent upsurge in attacks against US personnel based in Iraq by pro-Iranian militias.

Following the latest attacks by Iranian-made drones against American targets in Iraq, Washington launched air strikes against Iranian-backed militias on the Syrian-Iraqi border this week, killing four members of the Iranian-backed Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada militia.

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