Without an agreement, the Biden administration has warned Iran is just weeks away from having enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb.
American diplomats are trying to revive the nuclear deal that the U.S. pulled out of during the Trump administration, and say that Iran will have enough fuel to build a nuclear weapon within weeks.JERUSALEM -- While President Joe Biden’s administration has been seized by the global response to Russia's war on Ukraine, another foreign policy crisis looms ahead over the Iran nuclear deal.have been on pause for over two weeks now, but the sides remain close to finalizing an agreement.
During his term, it never happened, and instead, Iran took its own steps out of the deal -- enriching more uranium, to higher levels, and with more advanced centrifuges.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, walks by U.S. and Israeli flags, at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, March 26, 2022.
While talks initially made progress last spring, they were halted in June ahead of Iran's presidential elections, where Ebrahim Raisi, a more hardline cleric closely tied to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, took power. Months of Iran's delays ended in November, but those resumed talks at first brought deep skepticism about reviving the deal.
The State Department said the U.S. welcomed the meeting, and Blinken will have his own summit on Monday, with Israel, UAE, Bahrain and Morocco -- as well as a key meeting with Sheikh Mohammed in Morocco. But that's what made Bennett and Lapid's recent vocal opposition to some parts of a potential deal so striking. The two released a statement over a week ago, condemning what could be part of an ultimate deal, de-listing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the State Department's foreign terrorist organization list.
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