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2021-09-09 19:41
Recently, the whole world has attracted attention from the Afghan issue, but wave after wave has risen again, and there have been changes around the Iranian nuclear issue.
On September 8, local time, US Secretary of State Blinken, who was visiting Germany, warned that time for Iran to return to the nuclear agreement was running out.
Just a day earlier, the International Atomic Energy Agency had issued a sternly worded report saying that nuclear monitoring had been "seriously undermined" after Tehran suspended some of the IAEA's inspections of its nuclear activities.
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken (infographic)
Since April this year, the talks between the parties to the Iranian nuclear agreement have been held in Vienna, the capital of Austria, to discuss the resumption of implementation by the United States and Iran, and six rounds have been held so far. When will the seventh round of negotiations begin? After Lehi was elected in June, he said it was unlikely to restart negotiations to resume the Iranian nuclear agreement within two or three months. In early August, the Israeli oil tanker attack occurred, and many countries pointed the finger at Iran, which challenged the demise of the "Iranian nuclear agreement" as never before, and the negotiations reached an impasse.
Fan Hongda, a professor at the Institute of Middle East Studies at Shanghai University of foreign Chinese, believes that from the current situation, the sense of urgency in Europe and the United States, especially the United States, for the Vienna negotiations is in stark contrast to the slow pace of Iran.
Since April 2021, the Vienna talks have been held for six rounds
In July 2015, Iran reached a comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany. However, in May 2018, the TRUMP administration unilaterally withdrew from the Iranian nuclear agreement and restarted and added a series of sanctions against Iraq. In December 2020, the Biden administration said it was willing to rejoin the JCPOA, but would seek to extend the "restriction on Iran's production of fissile material" in the new round of negotiations, and also hoped to add Iran's Arab neighbors as negotiators.
First of all, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran is rapidly advancing its own nuclear development, which makes the United States and some partners in Europe and other places deeply uneasy. Secondly, in recent years, President Lehi of Iran and Foreign Minister Amir Abdulrahyan have repeatedly stated that developing relations with neighboring countries and Asian countries is one of the priorities of the new Iranian government. These new developments make the United States and its allies more eager to resolve the issue of returning to the Iranian nuclear agreement as soon as possible, which can both eliminate the challenges posed by Iran's nuclear development and establish and maintain good relations with Iran.
Returning to the negotiating table is not an easy task, Fan Hongda believes that the bell must also be tied to the bell, the United States was bent on withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear agreement, and now to return, Washington should first make a positive gesture. However, there are many reasons for the US sanctions against Iran, and it is not a simple executive order that can be lifted quickly, especially the strong anti-Iran and anti-Iranian nuclear agreement forces in the United States have determined that Washington cannot meet Iran's negotiating requirements for the time being.
On the other hand, Lehi, who has just been elected as the eighth president of Iran, as a closed disciple of Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei, is the existence of "anti-American fighters", and after his election, Lehi has said that he will not meet with US President Biden.
Iran's new president, Lasi
According to the official website of the Iranian president, in the first live television interview with the public on the evening of September 4, Lehi also said that the Iranian nuclear negotiations have been put on the agenda of the new Iranian government, but at the same time said that negotiations are a diplomatic option, but it is "completely unacceptable" to negotiate under pressure and threats.
Fan Hongda pointed out that in the face of the Vienna negotiations to resume the Iranian nuclear agreement, the United States also needs to understand that the days of relying on intimidation and suppression to achieve its goals have passed. The fiasco of the United States in Afghanistan has once again proved that the United States is no longer the Same America it once was, just as the world is no longer the same as it once was.
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