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US and West ‘waged decades of war on Iran by other means’: Analyst

Jake Sullivan, US President Joe Biden's national security adviser, gives remarks last month in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP file photo)

The United States and the West have “waged decades of war on Iran by other means,” according to American writer and political commentator Stephen Lendman.

Lendman made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on a statement by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan who said on Friday that talks for the US to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are “not going well.”

“It’s not going well in the sense that we do not yet have a pathway back into the [Joint the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)],” Sullivan said at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.

As another round of discussions in Vienna comes to a close, Sullivan said the past few days have brought “some progress” at the negotiating table, but Iran has “raced” its nuclear program since the United States pulled out of the clear deal in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump.

“Getting that program back into a box through a return to mutual compliance with the JCPOA has proven more difficult through the course of this year than we would have liked to see,” Sullivan said. “And we are paying the wages of the disastrous decision to leave the deal back in 2018.”

The JCPOA was abandoned by Trump in May 2018. Trump then targeted Iran’s economy with what he called a “maximum pressure” campaign, which failed to compel Iran to negotiate a “new deal.”

Iran and the five remaining parties to the JCPOA -- Germany, Britain, France, Russia and China -- began the talks in the Austrian capital in April with the aim of removing the sanctions after the US, under President Joe Biden, voiced its willingness to return to the agreement.

Meanwhile, Iran’s chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani said on Friday the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the E3, intimately agreed to accept Tehran’s viewpoint as a basis for “serious, result-oriented” talks.

Bagheri Kani was briefing reporters on Friday, at the end of the seventh round of talks in the Austrian capital of Vienna between Iran and the five remaining signatories to the multilateral nuclear deal aimed at removing the US sanctions imposed on Tehran and saving the agreement.

He said the pace of reaching an agreement depends on the will of the opposite side, adding, "If the other side accepts the rational views and positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the new round of talks can be the last one and we can achieve a deal in the shortest possible time."

Lendman said, “JCPOA talks in Vienna going nowhere reflect longstanding US/Western hostility toward Iran.  Their ruling regimes demand everything, offering nothing in return but hollow promises to be broken.”

“It’s been this say since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, freeing the nation and its people from hegemon USA control. Both right wings of its war party want to regain what was lost.  They want control of Iran’s vast oil and gas reserves.  They want ordinary Iranians exploited to serve US interests.  They’ve waged decades of war on Iran by other means,” he added.

“The Obama/Biden regime breached the JCPOA nearly straightaway after its adoption,” he said.

“Hardliners controlling the imposter in the White House have no intention of observing what’s mandated by Security Council Res. 2231 — ignoring that its binding international and US constitutional law under its Supremacy Clause,” the analyst said.

“Whatever comes out of Vienna talks won’t change Washington’s longstanding aim for regime change in Iran. While the war on the Islamic Republic is unlikely, it’s possible by accident or design because hegemon USA pushes things too far time and again,” he said.

 


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