Iran can respond to America's 'other options', top official replies after Biden says he's ready to act should diplomacy fail -- RT World News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Under the JCPOA, Tehran agreed to restrict its nuclear industry in exchange for sanctions relief and lucrative business opportunities.
50% : The lack of trust between Iran and the US was highlighted by the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who held his first formal meeting with the incoming conservative government on Saturday.
46% : He noted the "emphasis on using 'Other Options' against Iran" expressed during a meeting between President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House on Friday.
44% : The Biden administration and Iran have been conducting indirect talks in Vienna for months, but no breakthrough has come out of it.
42% : The warning from Tehran was voiced on Saturday by the secretary the Supreme National Security Council, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, who tweeted it in Farsi, English, Hebrew, and Arabic.
36% : A senior Iranian official responded, saying it's an illegal threat and that Tehran has the right to respond in kind.
33% : Tehran started reneging on its part of the bargain a year later, saying that other Western signatories of the deal failed to adequately compensate for the damage done to Iran by the US move.
32% : The signal was "an illegal threat to another country" that "establishes the Islamic Republic of Iran's right to reciprocal response to 'Available Options,'" Shamkhani said, adding the hashtag #ActiveResistance.
29% : The response was to the assurances given by Biden to Bennett that the US won't hesitate to take action against Iran should the preferred path of diplomacy prove to be fruitless.
25% : US President Joe Biden said the US can turn to "other options" should negotiations with Iran fail.
22% : The 2015 agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), became increasingly meaningless after Trump unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018, and targeted Iran with crippling economic sanctions.
7% : The former prime minister was a vocal critic of the Obama-era multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, and Biden's attempt to negotiate its revival after Donald Trump's withdrawal from the agreement.

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