“A Total Disaster”: Why The Iran Nuclear Deal Will Spark An Even Greater Geopolitical Crisis

There was a glimmer of hope for Joe Biden today, who is increasingly cornered by soaring inflation in general and the relentless surge in oil prices in particular, when Russia's chief negotiator in talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran said on Friday that he thought a deal was possible in the middle of next week.

"We will have a deal maybe in the middle of next week. We are talking about the last efforts before crossing the finish line."

The deal's terms, according to former Iran offical at the State Dept, Gabriel Noronha, who quit in disgust seeing it hatched out, is driven by Russia, which, along with China, is helping Iran evade sanctions.

Allow Iran to buy tens of billions of dollars of Russian weaponry;.

In 2031 - if not sooner given it reportedly already has 60% of the processed uranium needed for a bomb - Every warns that Iran will be a nuclear break-out state able to get one when it wants.

The risks are that rather than lowering oil prices and *preventing* war - against an Iran whose economy has been flattened by sanctions the US is now imposing on Russia: so do they work or not? - a new nuclear deal is more likely to *lead* to war and see oil soar to new record highs.

On which, Russia is to hold the first "International Anti-Fascist Congress" in August this year, inviting the Saudis, China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Iran and other "Stalwart defenders of democracy and human rights", as a mirror image of the recent US Summit of Democracies.
 

https://www.nationandstate.com/2022/03/04/a-total-disaster-why-the-iran-nuclear-deal-will-spark-an-even-greater-geopolitical-crisis/