TEHRAN (Iran News) – As the Western countries have started countdown for ending talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran in Vienna in order to increase pressure on Tehran and force it to make a hasty decision, Iran has shown the world that it is in no hurry and it is not ready to sacrifice its demands because of the U.S. and Western countries’ pressure.
According to reports the Iranian delegation in the Vienna talks have announced that Tehran has put many offers on the table and encouraged the other side to come up with new proposals to resolve the outstanding issues. So Iran has done its job and now the ball is on the West’s court to show their sincerity towards its claims.
Actually the Islamic of Republic of Iran has proved the U.S. that all the Washington pressures on Tehran have been repelled by the genuine resistance of the Iranian nation and the country will not give in the U.S. maximum unilateral pressures and many American politicians have admitted that the pressures have been futile and Iran has continued advancing its nuclear progress.
As diplomats from Iran and the 4+1 countries press on to undo former U.S. president Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” policy against Tehran, an American senator says the only upside of the policy was that it proved unilateral sanctions make things worse.
In a tweet, Senator Chris Murphy last week strongly criticized Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran deal, which he followed by imposing illegal sanctions against the Islamic Republic with the objective of crippling the Iranian economy.
The deal is formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Negotiations were launched in April 2021 under the Joe Biden administration to have the US return to the JCPOA and lift U.S. sanctions in exchange for Iran returning to its nuclear obligations.
“The only upside of Trump’s disastrous ‘maximum pressure’ Iran policy was that it definitively proved that unilateral sanctions make things worse, not better,” Murphy said.
However, the Democratic lawmaker resorted to fear-mongering about Iran’s nuclear activities and its regional influence so as to attack the Republican president.
“Iran got stronger and their behavior got more dangerous after we left the deal,” he asserted.
“There is nothing about the last four years that tells us America or the world is safer with no nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran,” Murphy said in another tweet.
He claimed that once Trump exited the deal, “Iran began shooting at our troops, sped up nuclear research, and increased support for dangerous regional proxies.”
Murphy has been a vocal critic of the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA and his maximum pressure sanctions on Iran. He has also slammed the move as “one of the dumbest, most dangerous foreign policy decisions of the last fifty years.”
Murphy has not been the first and the last American politicians who has admitted and will admit Iran’s resistance and success in thwarting the U.S. pressures and sanctions.
Iranian officials have also dismissed the so-called maximum pressure campaign as a humiliating failure, stressing that the Iranian nation’s “maximum resistance” defeated the aggressive policy.
“When the Americans officially acknowledge that they have failed in their maximum pressure [policy], an ignominious failure, this is a victory for the Iranian nation,” President Ebrahim Raisi has said.
“Today, the nation’s maximum resistance to [acts of] sedition and sanctions has borne fruit and the maximum pressure has failed,” he added.
President Raisi on the eve of the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution once against reiterated that Iran welcomes interaction with the world but it will not bow down to any pressure and the country has not pinned its hopes at Vienna talks or at the U.S. decision because the country is independent and relies on its own capabilities.
So any pressure on Iran’s negotiating team in Vienna from the Western party is in vain because this team is totally different from the previous one who started the talks on Iran’s nuclear programs in 2015 and signing the JCPOA, and the current team which is formed by revolutionary experts will not retreat any inch from getting the country’s rights.
The U.S. as well as its allies in Vienna are better to come to their senses and stop pressuring Iran if they want to reach a deal and they should take this point into consideration that this time Tehran is after a real win-win deal rather than getting a fist of void promises and obligations which have nothing for Tehran but waste of time and energy and killing its nuclear energy industry.
