{"id":101300,"date":"2021-04-14T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=101300"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:40:07","slug":"talks-on-iran-nuclear-deal-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/talks-on-iran-nuclear-deal-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks on Iran Nuclear Deal Resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Synopsis &#8211; The Joint Commission of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/relevance-of-the-jcpoa-joint-comprehensive-plan-of-action-iran-nuclear-deal\/\">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)<\/a> [Iran nuclear deal]<\/strong> resumed talks. The lifting of sanctions on Iran and nuclear implementation measures are on top of the agenda.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Background-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2018, former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iran-nuclear-deal\/\">Iran Nuclear Deal.<\/a> Further, it imposed sanctions on Iran and jeopardized the 2015 agreement to limit Iran&#8217;s uranium enrichment.<\/li>\n<li>In response, Iran increased uranium enrichment and stockpile and expanded its research and development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Therefore, for the revival of the 2015 agreement,<\/strong> diplomats from Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany, and Iran have been meeting in Vienna.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The aim is to reach an agreement on a road map for lifting US sanctions and recommitting Tehran to its agreements under the accord.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Changing approach of US toward IRAN-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The US President appointed a special envoy to Iran.<\/li>\n<li>It ended US support for Saudi Arabia&#8217;s war in Yemen against the Houthis [Iran-backed militants].<\/li>\n<li>Biden Administration also offered Iran to release $1 billion of Iranian money frozen in South Korea according to sanctions. In exchange, Iran was asked for ending its 20% uranium enrichment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Iran has rejected the offer, seeking more concrete measures from the U.S.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Is there a deadline for this deal to be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Presidential election in IRAN<\/strong> &#8211; Iran will go to the polls in June to elect a new president. The current president Hassan Rouhani, seen as a moderate in Tehran, will not be able to stand again for the presidential race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Challenges \u2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rising security tension in the region could jeopardize the diplomatic efforts to revive the JCPOA.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Shia militias supported by Iran continue to attack US forces and bases in Iraq.<\/li>\n<li>The Israel-Iran shadow conflict is now being fought inside Syria and on the seas.\u00a0In the Red Sea, an Iranian ship was attacked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Way forward-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The best chance for the US is to revive the JCPOA, and that too, before the presidential election.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Iran and the United States must work to re-establish lost faith and take measures to revive the Iran Nuclear Deal. It would end the nuclear crisis in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GJB8FNP5T.1&amp;imageview=0\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kEoji8Ichf\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ir-news\/international-agreements\/\">International Agreements<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;International Agreements&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ir-news\/international-agreements\/embed\/#?secret=ZGNpN71LCy#?secret=kEoji8Ichf\" data-secret=\"kEoji8Ichf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis &#8211; The Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) [Iran nuclear deal] resumed talks. The lifting of sanctions on Iran and nuclear implementation measures are on top of the agenda. Background- In 2018, former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Deal. Further, it imposed sanctions on Iran&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/talks-on-iran-nuclear-deal-resumes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talks on Iran Nuclear Deal Resumes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1282],"class_list":["post-101300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-ir_1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704818281},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}