What precisely does the Biden administration want to accomplish in its diplomacy with Iran? With new talks over Iran’s nuclear program now underway in Vienna, it’s a question worth asking.
To hear the White House tell it, the current talks are the only way to put Iran’s increasingly mature nuclear program back in a box, despite new evidence that — despite its denials — the Islamic Republic is, in fact, pursuing an offensive nuclear capability. From this standpoint, America’s 2018 abandonment of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (as the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers is known) represented an egregious strategic error, and the “maximum pressure” policy that followed was an abject failure.
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