Can we still save the Iran nuclear deal, as Biden wants?
Not that easy
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi visited Iran and testified about its significant uranium production.
Here, at an agency meeting, in Vienna on November 18, 2020 © Christian Bruna, Reuters
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While US President-elect Joe Biden wants to revisit the Iran nuclear deal, the other parties are wondering if this is enough to save it, during a meeting this Wednesday, December 16 in Vienna.
During the Trump years, marked by the reinstatement of heavy sanctions against Tehran, Iran responded by breaking away from many of its obligations under this agreement supposed to guarantee the civilian character of its nuclear program.
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Iran, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France and Germany: among the states that negotiated the Iran nuclear deal, only the United States will be absent
this Wednesday in Vienna during the meeting of the "
Joint Commission
"
formed by the countries that obtained this historic compromise in 2015.
Five years later, Iran is economically suffocated by
the sanctions of the Trump administration
.
In response, Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium is 12 times the limit allowed by the deal, and the country intends to install yet new centrifuges to produce
more nuclear material
.
Iranian conservatives not in favor of a new compromise
President Hassan Rohani says his country is ready to return to its commitments.
But internally,
Iranian conservatives have the wind in their sails and reject the idea of a new compromise
.
Confidence is at its lowest, while in the West, we now want to broaden the discussion, by integrating the issue of Iranian missiles and that of the influence of Tehran and its allies in regional crises.
However, the mysterious
assassination at the end of November of an Iranian nuclear physicist
has further poisoned this file, which is essential on the agenda of the Biden administration.
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