The nuclear agreement between Iran and the powers is still on the American agenda despite President Biden’s words that returning to the nuclear talks with Iran is not the administration’s priority and despite reports from senior officials in the administration that the nuclear agreement is dead.
Israel continues to be concerned about the possibility of the Biden administration returning to the nuclear talks, and this issue was at the center of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s talks with CIA chief William Burns, who visited Israel, and will also be at the center of his meetings with Foreign Minister Tony Blinken, who is visiting the region, and with President Biden next month in Washington.
Senior officials in Jerusalem are worried about the secret meetings of the American envoy Rob Mali with the Iranian ambassador to the UN, the TV channel Iran International reported that Rob Mali had several meetings with the Iranian ambassador Saeed Irvani.
State Department spokesman Ned Price did not deny the report and said: we have the means to deliver specific messages to Iran when it is in America’s interest to do so.
According to what Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on January 27, Iran has enough materials to produce several nuclear weapons even though it currently does not have such weapons.
He emphasized that the West must make a diplomatic effort to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Grossi revealed to a committee of the European Parliament that Iran has 70 kg of enriched uranium at a level of 60 percent and another thousand kg of enriched uranium at a level of 20 percent.
Grossi confirmed that he will travel to the talks in Tehran next month.
The US is working together with the European Union to punish Iran for the Iranian security forces’ brutal suppression of the Hijab protests, but continues to discuss with it the possibility of returning to the nuclear agreement.
This dialogue is dangerous because Iran derives encouragement from it and thinks that the US is not determined enough to fight against it in everything related to the protection of human rights and its attempt to undermine regional stability in the Middle East and its involvement in international terrorism.
Senior American officials have said that Iran’s joining the Russian military effort in the war in Ukraine was a strategic mistake, but, the Biden administration is playing a double game and is still conducting a dialogue with the Iranians, Iran’s joining the axis of Russia and China indicates that it is not interested in a new nuclear agreement with the powers, so , why does President Biden continue to court Iran? One of the explanations for this is that he wants to show the American people that President Trump made a mistake when he withdrew from the nuclear agreement and that his administration can sign a better nuclear agreement with Iran.
Iran continues to pose a danger to world peace, in practice it has already become a nuclear threshold state that also intervenes in international conflicts such as the war in Ukraine.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei continues the policy of leading his country to become a regional power that will export the ideas of the Khomeinist revolution to the Sunni Islamic world using violence and terrorism, nuclear weapons will give Iran the security umbrella to continue this policy without fear including an attempt to destroy the State of Israel in addition to the stranglehold which was already established around it by Qassem Souleimani using tens of thousands of missiles and rockets aimed at it from Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and the Gaza Strip.
The main challenge of the Netanyahu government will be to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons that are already within its reach, the dialogue with the American administration is very important despite the differences of opinion between the two countries, senior security officials say that Israel needs the advanced American weapons in order to have an effective military option to attack the nuclear facilities In Iran, if necessary, therefore, Prime Minister Netanyahu will do everything in the next two years until the end of President Biden’s term to avoid unnecessary conflicts with the administration.
