Biden: The Iran deal is dead, baby

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : There was plenty of evidence that Iran wasn't complying at any point, which Benjamin Netanyahu put together in an extraordinary public briefing in 2018.
56% : This comes at the same moment in which the EU has begun pressing the Biden administration to return to the table with Iran.
49% : Under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action under which Tehran reined in its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions.
46% : Reuters reported yesterday that neither Washington nor Brussels had "closed the door to diplomacy," and the EU publicly urged a return to talks last week:"I think that we do not have a better option than the JCPOA to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons," Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said last week in Brussels after a meeting of EU officials.
42% : This sounds much more definitive than the White House had been before or since on the prospects of a nuclear deal with the mullahs, but their previous public statements had become significantly pessimistic in recent months anyway:President Biden said on the sidelines of a Nov. 4 election rally that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran is "dead," but stressed the U.S. won't formally announce it, according to a new video that surfaced on social media late Monday.
38% : All of this might be true if the JCPOA indeed prevented Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
27% : Iran has brutally cracked down on popular protests, Iranian drones have allegedly made their way to aid Russia's war in Ukraine and Tehran has accelerated its nuclear program, all of which raise the political price to giving Iran sanctions relief.
23% : It didn't, however; even if Iran had complied with Barack Obama's deal, it only limited them for ten years in pursuing weapons from their supposedly peaceful nuclear program.

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