Question: How can the Biden administration implement a new nuclear agreement with Iran that is far more dangerous than the Obama administration's 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement and avoid criticism of the agreement from the American public and Congress? Answer: Negotiate a secret, oral nuclear agreement with Iran so there is nothing for the American people and Congress to see.
The agreement reportedly is a set of unwritten "Understandings" and is the result of indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran that began in May, with Oman serving as a mediator.
The new nuclear deal has been described as an interim agreement but includes major U.S. concessions to Iran.
Iran reportedly has agreed under the deal to stop its proxy groups from attacking U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq and to cooperate with IAEA investigations of its nuclear program.
In exchange for agreeing to the above requirements, Iran will receive over $20 billion in sanctions relief, which would come from the U.S. dropping its opposition to Iran accessing its frozen assets held in foreign banks.
First, the Biden administration refuses to give up its obsession with reversing President Trump's 2018 withdrawal from the deeply flawed JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran.
Third, the formal written nuclear agreement that lifts most sanctions on Iran that Biden officials were seeking in 2021 and 2022 is no longer politically viable because of a surge in Iran's belligerent behavior over the last 18 months, including major advances in its nuclear program that Tehran refuses to give up; Iran's brutal, nationwide crackdown in response to mass protests over the killing of Mahsa Amini; selling attack drones and other weapons to Russia for its use in the Ukraine war; and attacks on almost two dozen oil tankers and other commercial ships since 2021.
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