Why Biden’s Team Suddenly Sounds Optimistic on Iran
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Why Biden’s Team Suddenly Sounds Optimistic on Iran
Haaretz-Jan 31st 2022-Ben Samueles
WASHINGTON – As negotiations concerning Iran’s nuclear program enter the final stages, U.S. officials are attempting to proactively set the narrative as it emerged last week that several of the U.S. negotiating team had stepped down.
White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk expressed the Biden administration’s most optimistic statement yet concerning the talks last Thursday, saying that the parties were “in the ballpark of a possible deal” on returning to the 2015 nuclear agreement. However, he noted that he did not want to place odds on it and that the U.S. was prepared for talks to collapse without a deal.
McGurk told an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that negotiations were “close to a culmination point,” which tracks with the assessment that Iran is imminently approaching a point of no return that will effectively render the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action irrelevant.
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