As negotiations to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal continue to stall, a member of the European Parliament claims that the United States has yielded to Israeli regime pressure on the agreement.
According to an article published on Tuesday in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, officials in Israel are of the opinion that the Biden administration is still aiming to reach a nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic and that it has the support of the establishment of the US defense. At the same time, footage of President Biden claiming that the deal was “dead” has gone viral on social media.
Irish MEP Mick Wallace criticized the United States and a few “hawks” in the European Parliament on Wednesday for the stalled talks on reviving the deal, which is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
He wrote, “Biden promised to get #JCPOA with #Iran back on track, but negotiations have stalled,” and “[it] appears] the US has caved to pressure from #Israel.”
Wallace quickly added that although “hawks in EU Parliament want to abandon” the JCPOA, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell “is right to keep the dialogue open with Iran.”
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The controversial legislator has frequently criticized the US-led maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic as well as hostile powers’ attempts to incite riots and deadly unrest in the nation.
His most recent remarks came at a time when negotiations, which began in April 2021 in Vienna, have stalled since August of last year due to Washington’s refusal to lift the sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic by the Trump administration.
After taking office, President Joe Biden promised to change the hard-line policies of his predecessor, but he continues to follow the same path. On the other hand, his administration has intensified the so-called maximum pressure campaign against Iran and has repeatedly stated that talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and lift crippling sanctions are no longer on the agenda.
Washington has used unsubstantiated reports of drone deliveries to Russia and foreign-backed deadly unrest in the country in recent months to escalate sanctions against Iran.
Washington, according to observers, is attempting to leverage these baseless allegations against Iran in negotiations and negotiate from a position of strength.
Since the agreement was signed in 2015, the Israeli government has openly opposed it, putting pressure on subsequent US administrations to put pressure on Iran and use sanctions to force the country to give in.
In recent years, the regime, which is in possession of nuclear weapons and has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has attempted to sabotage Iran’s peaceful nuclear program in various ways by assassinating Iranian scientists and launching cowardly attacks on the country’s nuclear facilities.
However, an official from Israel told Haaretz that “Israel has no practical capacity to attack Iran effectively without the support and cooperation of the US, and anyone who says otherwise is willfully lying.”
