I freely admit I do not know what is really going on in the Middle East, what the real objectives are, and how in the fuck they think they can accomplish anything. All I know is there are more diplomatic efforts going on than I think I've ever seen amid total contradictions.


We have this.

Houthis warn of more attacks on UAE after Abu Dhabi blasts: Live
UAE’s Anwar Gargash said police investigating attacks after multiple explosions near Abu Dhabi airport and oil field.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/17/suspected-houthi-drone-attacks-abu-dhabi-uae-liveblog


And then this.

Iran to reopen OIC representative office in Saudi Arabia
Diplomats are in Jeddah to launch office after six years as Iran and Saudi Arabia prepare for a fifth round of direct talks.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/17/iran-to-reopen-oic-representative-office-in-saudi-arabia

And they are all the same people or their proxies.

 

Iran ‘will consider’ direct talks with US, says foreign minister
US administration says direct talks are ‘urgently needed’ to facilitate communication to restore the Iran nuclear deal.


Hossein Amirabdollahian's remarks came as US officials have been urging direct negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear accord [File: Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool via AP]
Published On 24 Jan 202224 Jan 2022
Tehran is willing to engage in direct talks with Washington if negotiations to revive the Iranian nuclear deal reach an advanced stage that requires such dialogue, Iran’s foreign minister has said.

Hossein Amirabdollahian’s remarks on Monday came as United States officials have been urging direct negotiations to restore the 2015 accord, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).


“Reports saying that Iran and the US are directly negotiating with one another are untrue,” Amirabdollahian said during a news conference in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

“However, if we get to a stage where reaching a good deal with strong guarantees necessitates direct talks with the US, we will consider it.”

Iran had previously ruled out direct meetings with the US. Instead, the two sides have been negotiating indirectly in Vienna to revive the deal, which saw Iran scale back its nuclear programme in exchange for lifting international sanctions against its economy.

Later on Monday, US President Joe Biden’s administration reiterated its call for direct talks.

“Meeting directly would enable more efficient communication, which is urgently needed to swiftly reach an understanding on a mutual return to JCPOA compliance,” a Department of State spokesman told the AFP news agency.

Last month, Robert Malley, the US special envoy for Iran, told Al Jazeera that US diplomats are willing to meet their Iranian counterparts “at any time and any place”.


“We’re prepared to meet with them face to face,” Malley said. “We think it’s far superior to indirect negotiations. And we’re dealing with something this complex, with so much mistrust, with so much potential for misunderstanding.”

Former US President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the accord in 2018 and started a “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions against Tehran, which responded by advancing its nuclear programme well beyond the limits set by the JCPOA.

Biden has pledged to restore the deal, but several rounds of talks in the Austrian capital have failed to secure a path back into the agreement so far.

The US administration says preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of its foreign policy priorities, but Tehran has denied it is seeking nuclear weapons.

Asked whether continuing indirect negotiations in Vienna could revive the JCPOA, Biden told reporters last week, “It’s not time to give up”.

“There is some progress being made. The P5+1 is on the same page. But it remains to be seen,” Biden said, referring to the original signatories to the deal: the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – the US, UK, Russia, China and France – plus Germany.

Malley said on Sunday that while American diplomats are working to restore the nuclear agreement, they are also pushing for the release of four US citizens imprisoned in Iran whom the US views as hostages.

“I will say it is very hard for us to imagine getting back into the nuclear deal while four innocent Americans are being held hostage by Iran,” Malley told the Reuters news agency.

Tehran on Monday rejected linking the nuclear talks to the prisoners’ release.

“Iran has never accepted any preconditions … The US official’s comments on the release of US prisoners in Iran is for domestic use,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said.

US officials have stressed that there is limited time to salvage the JCPOA, with Iran gaining irreversible nuclear expertise.

“If a deal is not reached in the next few weeks, Iran’s ongoing nuclear advances will make it impossible to return to the JCPOA,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week. “But right now, there’s still a window, a brief one, to bring those talks to a successful conclusion and address the remaining concerns of all sides.”

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...er-direct-talks-with-us-says-foreign-minister

 

Told ya kerry was still lurking around.

 

This is a pretty significant statement coming from the new hardliner Iranian president.

Iran nuclear negotiations. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday he would consider returning to the 2015 deal constraining its nuclear activities if the “parties are ready to lift the oppressive sanctions.” Raisi’s words are not groundbreaking, but add to positive signals from Iran that it is more willing to negotiate a deal, such as Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s remark on Monday that the country would consider direct talks with the United States.

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Raisi is confirming that the sanctions are working.
Betcha Kerry is telling biden he ought to listen to Raisi and lift the sanctions.
Kerry is a traitor and a foreign spy.

 

U.S. and Iran "in the ballpark" of a nuclear deal, Biden adviser says

Barak Ravid, author of from Tel Aviv

Brett McGurk. Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images

White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk says the U.S. and Iran "are in the ballpark of a possible deal" to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, but he “doesn’t want to put odds on it."

Why it matters: That's the most optimistic statement from the Biden administration since the nuclear talks resumed in Vienna last December. McGurk, who was speaking at a Carnegie Endowment event, didn’t explain the reasoning behind his assessment.

State of play: Biden administration officials have set the end of January or beginning of February as an unofficial deadline for the talks, in large part because they believe Iran's nuclear advances will soon render the 2015 deal ineffective.

• Both U.S. and European officials have said in recent weeks that progress in Vienna has been modest and very slow.
• A senior U.S. official involved in the talks told Axios last week that Iran would have to move faster on its diplomacy or slower on its nuclear program to provide enough space for a deal.

What he is saying: McGurk said the talks are close “to a culmination point” and the U.S. will soon know if Iran is ready to return to full compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal on terms Washington can accept.

• Despite his relative optimism, McGurk said the U.S. was prepared for the possibility that the talks would collapse without a deal.
• He also said the Biden administration remains focused on restoring the 2015 accord and is not interested in a “less for less” interim deal.
  
  https://www.axios.com/iran-nuclear-deal-ballpark-mcgurk-2a19d144-932f-4c9b-b877-c17a1c219c9a.html

 

Fuck Kerry, Fuck Iran, and fuck biden if he caves in and cuts a deal with these terrorist motherfuckers.

 

I am very glad to see this moving in the right direction for a couple reasons. One, the Iran nuclear deal was working. And the best way to eliminate any threats that Iran poses is to get them to re-join the international community as a full working partner. And the other reason is right now the world oil monopoly is just raping the world with inflated oil prices and especially trying to fuck President Biden and us over just like they do every time a Democrat becomes president. And President Biden can turn the tables on them and strike back hard simply by allowing Iran to get back in the world oil market. And part of the beauty of that is Iran has huge oil reserves, are completely independent answering to no one and especially not OPEC which induces their traditional enemies, their economy is in shambles and they are destitute. So they have every incentive in the world to sell oil. And sell it at bargain basement prices.

Keep an Eye On

The Iran ballgame. A further sign of momentum toward a renewed nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran appeared on Thursday when White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk told an audience at the Carnegie Endowment that the United States and Iran “are in the ballpark of a possible deal.” His comments come after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said this week that a revival of the 2015 deal is possible “if the other party removes the unjust sanctions.”

No one is more optimistic about a deal than Mikhail Ulyanov, the lead Russian negotiator at the Vienna talks. My FP colleague Colum Lynch profiled Ulyanov, the pact’s “one-man chronicler and cheering squad,” on Wednesday.

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The Iran nuclear deal was working?
Really?
For who?
The Iranians?

Jesus, stumbler, you really truly do hate America, don't you?

 

Trump administration certifies Iran still complying with nuclear deal

Administration also promises to impose new sanctions over ballistic missile program.


https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/17/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-240641

 

5 years ago?
How long after the agreement was set did Iran violate the agreement?
How much cash did we leave on the airport tarmac when we recovered our military prisoners?
If the sanctions aren't working why is Iran saying talks will only begin after they are lifted?
In what reality does a nuclear armed Iran work in favor of the west?

 

Maybe iran can share its nuclear stockpile with palestinians. That would probably please stumbler, eh?

 

Reviving the Iran deal? Negotiators from the United States and its European allies are “in a final stretch” of restoring the Iran nuclear deal, senior Biden administration officials said on Monday. Facets of the agreement could mark a return to the 2015 deal, although officials stressed that the ultimate decisions are in Tehran’s hands. “Now is the time for Iran to decide whether it’s prepared to make those decisions,” one official said.

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Sure, lets make sure that Iran is a nuclear power before we get biden/harris out of office.
Wonder how much Kerry makes on the deal?

 

Iran nuclear deal: ‘Final stage’ of Vienna talks to resume
Delegations are set to re-enter negotiations in the Austrian capital but significant hurdles remain in the way of reaching an agreement.


Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume on Tuesday in Vienna [EU Delegation in Vienna/Reuters]

By Maziar Motamedi
Published On 7 Feb 20227 Feb 2022

Tehran, Iran – The political delegations of Iran and the world powers party to its 2015 nuclear deal are due to return to Vienna for what could be the final stretch of intensive efforts to restore the landmark accord.

The eighth round of the talks, which was paused for more than a week to allow delegations to head back to their capitals for political consultations, will resume on Tuesday in the Austrian capital, multiple sides have confirmed.


While different sides have said real progress has been made since late November when the talks restarted after a months-long pause, it is clear that significant hurdles remain on the way to reaching an agreement to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The Iranian government still refuses to talk directly with the United States, which unilaterally abandoned the deal in 2018 and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran. This means European officials will have to continue their shuttle diplomacy between the two.

Iranian officials said on Monday that the onus falls on the Western parties to fulfil Iran’s expectations of sanctions relief.

In a joint conference in Tehran alongside his Finnish counterpart, Pekka Haavisto, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said a swift agreement in Vienna depended on the conduct and political will of the US and the so-called E3 – France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

“In the latest texts achieved in the Vienna negotiations, parts of our demands on lifting sanctions have not been considered,” he said. Still, he expressed hope that “in this round, we will reach a final agreement”.

Earlier on Monday, Iran’s security chief Ali Shamkhani said in a tweet that the Iranian team would head to Vienna with a clear agenda of lifting sanctions.

“An agreement in which the sanctions that form the maximum pressure are not lifted will condition the country’s economy and cannot be the basis of a good deal,” he wrote in reference to a policy of the administration of former US President Donald Trump that his successor, Joe Biden, continues to enforce.


علی شمخانی
@alishamkhani_ir
The agenda for the Iranian negotiators to continue the eighth round of #ViennaTalks has been carefully defined. An agreement in which the sanctions that form the maximum pressure are not lifted will condition the country's economy and cannot be the basis of a #GoodDeal.
11:48 PM · Feb 6, 2022

Signed by China, France Germany, Iran, Russia, the UK and the US, the JCPOA provided sanctions relief to Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme. But after the US withdrawal and imposition of sanctions, Iran abandoned those curbs and is now using advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium up to 60 percent.

Iran has said it wants a full lifting of US sanctions and guarantees that Washington will not renege on the deal again, as well as a short period to verify that sanctions have effectively been lifted.

But European officials seem to be signalling that Iran needs to scale back some of its demands in order to achieve an agreement.

“We need spirit of compromise to take us back to full implementation,” tweeted Enrique Mora, the EU’s coordinator for the nuclear deal. “In view of different undesirable trends undermining the JCPOA, there is a need to swiftly conclude these negotiations.”

Enrique Mora
@enriquemora_
The 8th round of #ViennaTalks #JCPOA will resume tomorrow in Vienna. We need spirit of compromise to take us back to full implementation. In view of different undesirable trends undermining the JCPOA, there is a need to swiftly conclude these negotiations.
2:51 AM · Feb 7, 2022


The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, also told the Iranian foreign minister in a call on Sunday that he expected all sides to come back to Vienna ready to make the political decisions required to reach a deal.

Russia’s chief negotiator, Mikhail Ulyanov, said on Monday talks are in the “final stage” but an agreement “requires determination and energetic efforts from all participants”.

Meanwhile, the US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said last week Iran still wants all US sanctions imposed by the Trump administration lifted, whereas the US is prepared to lift most but not all.

“We have different views about what it means for the United States to be back in compliance,” he said.

The US on Friday restored a sanctions waiver that allows Russian, Chinese and European companies to work with Iran on civilian nuclear activities, in what was seen as a step aimed at facilitating the talks.

Iranian officials welcomed the move but said it is “not enough” as they will only accept an effective lifting of sanctions that will provide Iran with the economic benefits it was promised under the deal.

The delegations head back to Vienna amid continued warnings by the Western parties that mere weeks are left to salvage the accord due to Iran’s nuclear advances.

Iran, which maintains it will never seek a nuclear weapon, says it will not be bound by any “artificial deadlines”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/7/final-stage-of-vienna-talks-on-irans-nuclear-deal-to-resume

 

A rogue regime, sworn to destroy the west and specifically America, thinks by making this kind of noise they can expect to prevail;

Iranian officials said on Monday that the onus falls on the Western parties to fulfil Iran’s expectations of sanctions relief.
... said a swift agreement in Vienna depended on the conduct and political will of the US and the so-called E3
“......parts of our demands on lifting sanctions have not been considered,”
Earlier on Monday, Iran’s security chief Ali Shamkhani said in a tweet that the Iranian team would head to Vienna with a clear agenda of lifting sanctions.
“An agreement in which the sanctions that form the maximum pressure are not lifted will condition the country’s economy and cannot be the basis of a good deal,”​

Even biden can probably tell that the sanctions are working and under no circumstance should they be lifted.
If Shooter had anything to do with negotiating with Iran, the first thing he'd do is get him a pissed off 19 year old Marine, get him with Kerry, have the marine plant his boot firmly on Kerry's neck, and then show the Iranians.

Shooter would then explain; "this is what we do with traitors who feed our enemies sensitive information".

You're next, once his boot is firmly planted on your neck then we can begin negotiations.

 

I haven't participated or even read anything in this thread for quite sometime now...however I'm gonna throw this in it just because that's who I am...

The hack fucks were up in arms over Trump killing this poor fucker...yet when Crime Boss Biden and the Ho (halfcracker/soros3.0) administration kills 2 terrorists Crime Boss Biden and the Ho is to be praised over it.

They only did this for the same reason that Obama had claimed to have killed bin Ladin...election reasons.

 

Vienna Negotiations Resume Eighth Round

Representatives from Iran, China, Russia, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom (with the United States absent but close by) once again gather around the negotiating table in Vienna to discuss the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.

The talks resume with some rare momentum after the United States restored sanctions waivers that allow Russian, Chinese and European firms to work with Iran on certain civil nuclear projects and activities of “nonproliferation value.”

Restoring the waivers, which had been rescinded by the Trump administration in 2019 and 2020, was “designed to facilitate discussions that would help to close a deal,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained to Congress in a letter. He added that it was not part of any quid pro quo between the United States and Iran.

Although Iranian officials have made positive signals over the past few weeks, even suggesting direct talks with the United States were possible, the waiver restoration was met with a shrug from Iranian officials. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called it “good but insufficient” on Sunday, while foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh went further, calling sanctions relief a “red line” in the talks.

“Washington has decided to take a step which has no impact on Iran’s economic situation … a responsible [U.S.] government should return to the deal and fulfill its obligations,” Khatibzadeh added.

So, if a revived deal is within reach, what’s stopping it from crossing the finish line? Plenty, Naysan Rafati, a senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group, told Foreign Policy. For one, agreements still need to be reached on which specific sanctions Iran gets relief from (not all U.S. sanctions are related to Iran’s nuclear activities).

Then there’s the issue of Iran’s enriched uranium stocks and how to reduce them significantly, as well as the thorny issue of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges—now much more advanced than in 2015 and capable of shortening Iran’s “breakout” time to weapons-grade material. (Even then, a viable nuclear weapon would still take at least a year to produce, as my FP colleague Colum Lynch explained last month).

On top of it all is the challenge of sequencing—essentially agreeing which party goes first and in what order.

“There are technical ways of squaring these various circles, but once you get to the nitty gritty of it, the amount of granular detail and the process by which it would actually be implemented in practice—it’s a lot of moving parts,” Rafati said.

Rafati said the buoyant mood in Vienna may be less about an imminent deal than the realization from negotiators that the new negotiating team under President Ebrahim Raisi, initially seen as intransigent, is willing to work constructively toward a deal in the future.

As this week’s eighth-round talks resume, there’s reason for cautious optimism. “You can see light at the end of the tunnel,” Rafati said. “And still be quite concerned about the tunnel caving in.”

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If Joe and the despicables want to see Iran armed with nuclear weapons they better get cracking.
After mid terms any deal they cook up will be blocked unless Joe can do it with an executive order.
And if he does that hopefully the deplorables will impeach him for treason.

 

It looks like things are finally starting to move in the right direction.

Iran talks. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Iran was “in a hurry” to conclude a deal in Vienna to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement and told Western powers to stop “playing with time” in a press conference on Monday. He may get his wish, as Reuters quoted an Iranian and Western official who both said a new deal could be struck as soon as early March.


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