Iranian negotiators know that the United States would never provide financial compensation, Mr. “I think people are going to run hard for the next three months against Iran, knowing that after January there could be a very different Iran policy in place.” “I don’t think the administration is finished on the Iran issue,” said Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a longstanding supporter of a tough policy on Iran. Trump will take more kinetic measures, including further sabotage and cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear or missile programs or even military action, which Israel, Egypt and the Gulf allies would most likely support. It is selling more sophisticated weapons to the Arab monarchies in the Persian Gulf - countries that see Iran as an enemy and have their own regional ambitions - and accelerating the transfer of F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates. The administration is also trying to further limit Iran’s support for proxy militias in those countries. This maximum pressure campaign, as the administration has called it, devastated Iran’s economy but failed to push Iran back to the negotiating table or to curtail its involvement in Iraq, Syria or Lebanon. Rouhani welcomed the initiative, calling it “an opportunity” for the United States “to compensate for its previous mistakes and return to the path of adherence to international commitments.” “If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations.”Ī week ago, after Mr. Biden wrote in a September op-ed for CNN.
“I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy,” Mr. Trump’s decision to abandon the deal “reckless,” and said it ended up isolating the United States, not Iran. The “breakout” time for Iran to possibly make a nuclear weapon - an ambition it denies - is now considerably shorter than a year.ĭuring the campaign, Mr. The International Atomic Energy Agency said last week that Iran now had more than 2,440 kilograms, which is more than eight times the limit set by the 2015 nuclear deal. After the United States withdrew, Iran declared it was no longer bound by the agreement and resumed enriching uranium at higher levels. Trump took office, Iran had roughly 102 kilograms, or about 225 pounds, of enriched uranium, whose production was limited by the 2015 agreement. Biden do not confirm receiving any messages from Iran and say they will only deal with the issue after the inauguration. Newsweek reached out to Comer and Scalise's offices, but didn't hear back in time for publication.Advisers to Mr. was committed to "transparency, including those events surrounding the early days of the pandemic." renewed membership to the organization, but also pointed out that the U.S. Anthony Fauci would be sent to a WHO meeting on Thursday.ĭuring the virtual meeting of the WHO early Thursday morning, Fauci said he was "honored" to announce the U.S. coalition led by infectious disease expert Dr. In a Wednesday press conference, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said a U.S. would be "terminating our relationship with the WHO and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving, urgent, global public health needs." However, the American Medical Association at the time said Trump's decision would "put the health of our country at grave risk." Over the past year, then-President Donald Trump repeatedly blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic and often referred to COVID-19 as the "Chinese virus." President Joe Biden halted the U.S.'s withdrawal from the WHO during his first night in office on January 20 after the previous administration accused the organization of being under the "total control" of China.
"No organization should receive American taxpayer dollars that refuses to tell the truth and is unaccountable to the nations it serves." "The WHO shielded China from accountability for lying to the world and trying to cover up the origins of the coronavirus," Scalise added. "America has paid too high a price for China's lies and the World Health Organization's complicity," said Scalise. The Kentucky representative added that the WHO needed to enact sweeping reforms before the U.S.
Comer claims, "Having the United States rejoin the World Health Organization without it undergoing serious reform is foolish." Photo by GREG NASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images/Getty James Comer makes a statement before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform at the U.S.
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