{"id":93027,"date":"2021-02-20T07:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T12:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=93027"},"modified":"2021-02-20T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T12:39:45","slug":"auto-draft-509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/02\/20\/auto-draft-509\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says Iran Talks Needed to Avoid Mistakes in Mideast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93028 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-Talks-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-Talks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-Talks-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-Talks.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-Talks-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-Talks-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-Talks-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday that the United States was driven to \u201creengage in negotiations\u201d to revive a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran by the desire to avoid missteps that could further destabilize the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need transparency and communication to minimize the rise of strategic misunderstanding or mistakes,\u201d Biden said at the virtual Munich Security Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s remarks came hours after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif\u2019s said his country would reverse actions that violated the agreement with world powers if U.S. sanctions against the country were lifted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. unconditionally &amp; effectively lift all sanctions imposed, re-imposed or re-labeled by Trump,\u201d Zarif declared in a tweet. \u201cWe will then immediately reverse all remedial measures. Simple:#CommitActMeet.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1362650873407676419&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.voanews.com%2Fusa%2Fbiden-says-iran-talks-needed-avoid-mistakes-mideast&amp;siteScreenName=VOANews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1362650873407676419\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Biden\u2019s willingness to join talks to revive the 2015 deal is a repudiation of Trump\u2019s \u201cmaximum pressure&#8221; that aimed to isolate the Middle Eastern power and weaken its nuclear development program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNuclear proliferation requires careful diplomacy and cooperation among us to avoid mistakes,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we are prepared to reengage in negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also promised to \u201cwork in close cooperation with our European and other partners\u201d to \u201caddress Iran\u2019s destabilizing activities across the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. imposed sanctions on Iran after then-President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal in 2018, causing relations to deteriorate between the two countries. Trump accused Iran of developing an illegal ballistic missile program and supporting terrorism in the region. He imposed new sanctions on vast swaths of Iran\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\">\n<div class=\"embedded-entity\" data-embed-button=\"wysiwug_image\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.large_embedded\" data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"ad01a7e8-e187-4373-9961-7b4f13290b05\" data-langcode=\"en\">\n<figure class=\"media media--type-image media--view-mode-\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/im-media.voltron.voanews.com\/Drupal\/01live-166\/styles\/sourced_737px_wide\/s3\/2020-12\/reu_jcpoa.JPG?itok=Cq8Oelhs\" alt=\"FILE - Participants of the Iran nuclear talks that culminated in the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are pictured during a meeting at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria, July 14, 2015.\" width=\"737\" height=\"457\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption>FILE &#8211; Participants in the Iran nuclear talks that culminated in the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action are pictured during a meeting at the U.N. building in Vienna, Austria, July 14, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States) plus Germany sealed the deal negotiated by the Obama administration in July 2015 that required Iran to drastically scale back its nuclear program in return for economic relief. The deal was known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that the Biden administration should not consider a return to the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Middle East of 2021 is not at all the Middle East of 2015 when the deal was negotiated, or 2018 even, when the U.S. left that accord,\u201d said Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd more importantly, Iran is in gross violation of that deal. Iran is hoping to weaponize time by adding more capability to its nuclear program, re-creating more facts on the ground and trying to push the Biden administration to as speedily as possible return to the deal or return to offering some kind of sanctions relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\" data-embed-button=\"node\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.backgrounder\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"4c3daf40-6c94-4741-bd5e-d8d884710567\" data-langcode=\"en\">\n<div class=\"backgrounder\">\n<div class=\"backgrounder__media\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"blazy blazy--field blazy--field-media-image blazy--field-media-image--feed-1 blazy--view blazy--view--taxonomy-term blazy--view--taxonomy-term--feed-1 blazy--on blazy--first\" data-blazy=\"\">\n<div class=\"media media--bundle--image media--blazy media--responsive media--image is-b-loaded\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__element b-lazy b-responsive b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/im-media.voltron.voanews.com\/Drupal\/01live-166\/styles\/221x146\/s3\/2021-01\/000_8Y63N7_0.jpg?itok=_FLzVLRc\" srcset=\"https:\/\/im-media.voltron.voanews.com\/Drupal\/01live-166\/styles\/608x401\/s3\/2021-01\/000_8Y63N7_0.jpg?itok=tHOaoz5E 1x\" alt=\"(FILES) A file handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on November 6, 2019, shows the interior of the\u2026\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"backgrounder__content\">\n<div class=\"backgrounder__title\">Nuclear Deal Hangs in Balance as Iran Intensifies Uranium Enrichment<\/div>\n<div>US allies in Europe hope JCPOA can be resurrected, but analysts say it depends on whether Iran or US is willing to make the first move<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>In addition to Biden\u2019s offer to return to the bargaining table, his administration\u2019s appeal to Iran included the reversal of two symbolic actions taken by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration reversed Trump\u2019s determination that all U.N. sanctions on Iran be reinstated, and it relaxed stringent limits on the domestic travel of Iranian diplomats assigned to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The two actions drew criticism from Israel, which said it remained \u201ccommitted to preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons\u201d and that it was in contact with the U.S. on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has said the U.S. must start reversing sanctions by February 23 or it will ban short-notice inspections by the U.N.\u2019s watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.<\/p>\n<p><em>Henry Ridgwell contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday that the United States was driven to \u201creengage in negotiations\u201d to revive a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran by the desire to avoid missteps that could further destabilize the Middle East. \u201cWe need transparency and communication to minimize the rise of strategic misunderstanding or mistakes,\u201d Biden said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93030,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93027\/revisions\/93030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}