Rome: Because Iran’s nuclear program made troubled progress, President Joe Biden would muddy on Saturday with European allies to speak through a strategy when they pressed for diplomatic resolutions – and to plan the possibility of Iran decrease to return to the negotiation table.
Meeting with German, French and English leaders – known as E3 – came at an important time, when Iran continued to enrich uranium to the level of the weapons.
Biden tried to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement and bring Iran back compliance with the pact that will make the Islamic Republic of at least another year from the potential of nuclear weapons.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the meeting with Angela Merkel Germany, France Emmanuel Macron, and Boris Johnson England would feature leaders “all singing from the same song sheet on this problem.” He called it “learning differently from the previous government because Iran is one of the most deep divergence fields between previous administrations and Europeans.” The UN Atom Watchdog said Iran was increasingly violating an agreement, known as a common comprehensive action plan.
President Donald Trump attracted the US from the 2015 nuclear agreement and the US has participated indirectly in talks aimed at bringing Washington and Tehran again becoming obedience.
Vienna talks have been in hiatus since June, when Iranian President Ebrahim Relisi took power.
England, France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union remain part of the agreement.
The Saturday meeting followed a few days after Ali Bagheri, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairperson of Iran’s negotiator for the conversation, Tweeted that Iran had agreed to restart negotiations at the end of November and the date for the resumption of negotiations “will be announced the next time.” Sullivan said on Thursday that the US was still trying to determine whether Iran was serious about negotiations.
“It’s not entirely clear to me whether the Iranians are ready to return to talks,” he told reporters with the Air Force one as a flying Biden to Rome for the group of 20 summit.
“We have heard positive signals that they, but I think we have to wait and see when and do they really appear on the negotiation table.” Sullivan said the group would send “a clear message” to Iran that the window for negotiations was “unlimited.” “We, of course, maintain all other options to be able to handle this program as needed,” he said.
Saturday’s meeting came a few days after American officials blamed Iran because of a drone attack on the US lead post in Syria.
Officials said Monday the US believed that Iran had resources and pushed the attack, but that drones were not launched from Iran.
There were no deaths or injuries reported as the result of the attack.
In retaliation, the US Ministry of Finance on Monday announced a new sentence against two senior members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and two affiliated companies to supply deadly drones and related material for rebel groups in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Ethiopia.
The meeting came on the sidelines of a group of 20 summit in Rome, the first stop in a five-day foreign journey that would also take him to the UN climate conference at Glasgow, Scotland.
US officials said Biden will also participate on Saturday in a plenary session with other world leaders in the Covid-19 pandemic and economic recovery.
Biden is expected to encourage progress towards its purpose to build a 15% global corporate minimum tax, even as its domestic effort to raise the business level to the number trapped in the Limbo in Washington.
He is also expected to discuss steps to ease the crisis of global energy supply which has led to price increases, damaging the recovery of the global economy.