TEHRAN (Iran News) – Two-Faced Biden and the JCPOA. For years the U.S. and administrations and presidents in this country have been trying to show the world that they are well-wishers and supportive of human rights and nations against despotic governments and regimes but they use this issue as a pretext to rule the governments, and their words and actions have been in contradiction.
In recent years and regarding Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. administrations have claimed and promised something but they acted otherwise. Let’s forget Barrack Obama and Donald Trump’s words and acts in the past. Let’s check the current U.S. President Joe Biden’s claims that the world is still remembering them.
Biden in his presidential election campaign regarding the return of the U.S. to the JCPOA has said something and now has been acting differently. The current president had vowed some other things and so far has revealed the true nature of the U.S. administrations which have been two-faced in the history especially when it comes to other countries.
While in recent months the U.S. and its allies have increased pressure on Iran to started nuclear talks, they have forgotten that Iran has not left the deal and this was the U.S. which has left it and now in a excessive demand move tries to blame Iran.
Americans want Iran to give concessions but they are not ready to observe their own commitments to the JCPOA. Although some officials in Washington have claimed the Biden Administration will remove major parts of sanctions, the president himself happily supports oil sanctions on Tehran.
On Friday, Biden said there are sufficient supplies of petroleum worldwide so other countries can reduce what they buy from Iran.
Biden’s remarks are potentially construed as an impediment to the progress of the forthcoming round of negotiations on the removal of anti-Tehran sanctions at the Austrian capital of Vienna.
Biden made the comments in a memo to the State Department on Friday as the U.S. government needs to give assurance every six month that there is enough oil supply globally to maintain sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
“Consistent with prior determinations, there is a sufficient supply of petroleum and petroleum products from countries other than Iran to permit a significant reduction in the volume of petroleum and petroleum products purchased from Iran by or through foreign financial institutions,” the U.S. president said in the memo.
The sanctions were put in place during the former U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration in 2012.
Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, later reimposed other sanctions on Iran’s oil and petrochemical products, which were aimed at cutting off its oil supply to other countries. The Trump administration also urged other oil-producing countries to raise their oil output to compensate for drop in Iran’s oil supply.
Biden’s statement comes ahead of a virtual meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping on Monday, in what is expected to be the two presidents’ most extensive meeting since Biden took office.
The United States has recently resorted to pirating Iranian oil cargoes as it has failed in its various attempts to cut the country’s oil exports to zero through its regime of sanctions.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that it had prevented a piracy attempt on an Iranian oil cargo traveling in the sea of Oman last month.
The new oil-related sanctions by Biden would complicate the upcoming negotiations with Iran over the removal of U.S. sanctions as part of obligations to the 2015 nuclear deal that would allow Tehran to sell its oil openly again.
So it seems Iran is right to cast doubt on the U.S. words and sincerity and to continue its own way and puts aside its voluntary nuclear activities.
Iranian officials as have mentioned in recent months are not against the idea of talks but at the same time they will not tie the activities of the country to the talks because the U.S. cannot be trusted and this country can cheat and retreat any moment it wishes.
Iran has fully honored its nuclear obligations since signing the JCPOA deal but after the U.S. withdrew, the Iranians decided to only observe the commitments and not the voluntary commitments and this has enraged the West which has ignored all of their JCPOA commitments.
Now with recent Biden’s remarks, President Seyed Ebrahim Raisi and his negotiating team should be careful and not to be fooled by the carrot of the West because the U.S. is happy with its cruel and unilateral sanctions against Iran and it seems even after its return to the deal the sanctions would continue under other pretexts by the two-faced U.S. Administration which is under influence of the Zionists’ lobbying.
