White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday February 21st that the United States has started talks with Iran over the return of at least five American hostages. He called the country’s imprisonment of dozens of dual nationals in recent years, including several Americans, a “complete and utter outrage.”
Sullivan said these things In an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation" show. In the same show he also states that it was a "significant priority" of President Joe Biden's administration to get the Americans "safely back home.” When talking about the hostage deal he stated that “We will not accept a long-term proposition where they continue to hold Americans in an unjust and unlawful manner.” He said this type of proposition is a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Sullivan added that President Biden is using diplomacy to prevent the Iranian government from acquiring nuclear weapons. However, Sullivan said no talks have begun with Tehran (Capital of Iran) about the U.S. rejoining the 2015 international pact to restrain Iran’s nuclear development program, which Iranian officials maintain is for peaceful purposes and not the development of nuclear weapons. Biden has also came out and said that the United States was driven to “reengage in negotiations” to rejoin the pact that former President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018.
In addition, United Nations watchdogs found uranium particles at two Iranian sites it inspected. This very seriously endangers the efforts by President Biden to rejoin Iran’s nuclear pact. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday that the US cannot rejoin the nuclear pact until it lifts economic penalties. Washington DC said Tehran must take the first step by complying with the accord and limiting nuclear activities.
With tensions rising between the two countries, do you think that the two will come to an agreement? Both are very serious problems and both pose a threat to the U.S. Do you think President Biden and his administration will be able to fix these potentially war starting problems?
I often wonder the same thing about the administration being able to fix the potential "war starting" problems and I think that they might be able to but we really never know until something really happens, if that makes any sense. But in response to your first question, I do think that they might come to and agreement considering the tensions that are rising between us and them.
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Regarding the question of whether or not there will be in agreement, that is greatly depending upon Iran. Efforts to provide a solution and meet in the middle have already been displayed by the United States, so now the outcome of this situation lies in the hands of Iran. It is good to see that the problems of American hostages in Iran and the development of nuclear weapons in Iran are a high priority for the Biden administration, and I hope that the administration's obvious efforts to resolve the issue end up being successful. -Kirstyn
ReplyDeleteI think that it is good to hopeful that the outcomes between the relationship between the US and Iran are good. This is optimistic though, and we do need to be realistic since it is extremely hard to negotiate with the Middle East. I hope that we do got Iran to release the hostages, but not escalate any tension. -Brooke
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