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This week’s R&D covers the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. The United States backed out of a 2015 framework on Iran’s nuclear program during the Trump administration, something that President Biden is looking to reverse. However, ongoing talks in Vienna, Austria between Iran and negotiators from the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, Germany, and France are deadlocked over Iran’s demand that all American sanctions against it end. Some fear that the U.S. not joining a new nuclear accord could mean that Iran gets a nuclear weapon, potentially triggering a military conflict with Israel, who fears a nuclear Iran threatens its survivability.
Ray Takeyh on what Iran wants from the nuclear talks and what could happen next. https://t.co/WkPsMMal9v
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) December 9, 2021
If US nuclear diplomacy with Iran continues to stall out, Israel should seriously consider ending its longstanding policy of nuclear ambiguity, argues Bennett Ramberg of @PacCouncil. https://t.co/S9rWP8kvac pic.twitter.com/w2ymTzTeZ8
— Project Syndicate (@ProSyn) December 9, 2021
At some point, the Biden administration will have to ask itself if it is really worth a war with Iran to prevent nuclear proliferation, @EmmaMAshford writes in this week’s It’s Debatable. https://t.co/4QW1ZiG62C
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) December 6, 2021
“When President Biden says Iran will never get a nuclear weapon, he means it” https://t.co/VbbwNvQqBG
— The Times (@thetimes) December 9, 2021
Israel opposed the Iran nuclear deal, but former Israeli officials increasingly say U.S. pullout was a mistake https://t.co/5Eh2WbNj3J
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 9, 2021
If Iran were really determined to cross the nuclear threshold – it would have done so a long time ago | Opinionhttps://t.co/tHvkt2sgQK
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) December 9, 2021
The U.S. faces the prospect of having to rely on two of its biggest international rivals, Russia and China, to end the nuclear standoff with Iran https://t.co/7GLf7e3aim
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 6, 2021
Iran nuclear deal pulled back from brink of collapse as talks resume in Vienna https://t.co/3JFKdojm63
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) December 9, 2021
“After months of playing hard to get, Iran returns to the nuclear talks with international powers today in Vienna,” write @KasraAarabi and @saeidgolkar. “But does the West really know who it’s negotiating with?” https://t.co/i1HIOuFpy6
— TIME (@TIME) December 6, 2021
A significant majority of Jewish Israelis, 58%, would support a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities even without a green light from Washington.https://t.co/oe4En08Eog
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) December 9, 2021