{"id":129384,"date":"2022-08-18T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129384"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:26:23","slug":"iran-nuclear-deal-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129384","title":{"rendered":"Iran nuclear deal around the corner?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Both sides of a renewed Iran nuclear deal negotiation have hinted that an agreement and eventual signing is closer than before. Three main sticking points are holding the negotiations from closing the deal for signature. The Iranian side of the negotiation believes that these issues would not be hard to address.<\/p>\n

From CNBC:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Three main sticking points remain. Iran wants the Biden administration to remove its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its designated terrorist list, which so far Washington seems unwilling to do.<\/p>\n

It also wants a guarantee that the deal will be binding regardless of future U.S. administrations. Biden cannot legally guarantee that, and the reality remains that another administration could cancel any deal just as former president Donald Trump did.<\/p>\n

The third item is a long-running investigation by the IAEA into traces of uranium found at three of Iran’s undeclared nuclear sites several years ago. Tehran wants it shut down, something the agency itself, as well as Western governments, are opposed to.<\/p>\n

The U.S. didn’t seem to have much patience with Tehran’s demands, with State Department spokesperson Ned Price saying this week that “the only way to achieve a mutual return to compliance with the JCPOA is for Iran to drop further unacceptable demands that go beyond the scope of the JCPOA. We have long called these demands extraneous.”<\/p>\n

‘Now or never situation’<\/b><\/p>\n

In the time since Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal in May 2018 and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran, the Islamic Republic’s government has pushed ahead with rapid nuclear development.<\/p>\n

Its stockpile of enriched uranium is now at 60% enrichment, its highest ever and a huge leap from the 3.67% limit set out by the 2015 deal, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA.<\/p>\n

The level required to be able to make a bomb is 90%. Commercial enrichment for energy use is between 2% and 3%. It’s also slashed IAEA access to its nuclear sites for monitoring.<\/p>\n

“The restoration of the deal is getting close to a now or never situation,” Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States in Washington, told CNBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CNBC has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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