America: We are reviewing the process of Iran sanctions waivers

The conservative Washington Free Beacon website announced on Friday local time: Joe Biden’s administration will withdraw sanctions waivers that allow Iran to engage in nuclear cooperation with international parties as part of the JCPOA. It has not been renewed.

The Biden administration has allowed a set of sanctions waivers that allow Iran and Russia to cooperate to expire, but has not committed to enforcing those sanctions.

Washington last extended these exemptions until the beginning of 2024 in August 2023, and these exemptions have now expired.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller would not comment on why the sanctions waivers were revoked, but told the Washington Free Beacon that officials are still “reviewing the waivers as part of a regular review process” and that public comment will follow after the decision is made. It will be presented as part of that review.

Iran sanctions waivers are issued within the framework of the JCPOA, and American governments have been obliged to renew them every 6 months.

According to the text of the JCPOA, the signatory countries had committed to cooperate with Iran in the field of peaceful nuclear cooperation, including in the Arak research reactor and Fordow facilities projects.

During the presidency of Donald Trump, these exemptions were canceled due to the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA, but Joe Biden announced after entering the White House that he will issue these exemptions.

After signing the JCPOA in 2014 with the aim of canceling oppressive sanctions, Iran, as a responsible country, implemented its obligations flawlessly and this issue was confirmed in 16 reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency. But after Donald Trump entered the White House in January 2017 (December 2017) and after some preliminary measures, finally by adopting positions contrary to the provisions of the JCPOA, with the unilateral and illegal withdrawal of the United States from it on May 18, 2018 (May 8, 2018). In two stages, its secondary sanctions against Iran were returned.

The unbalanced implementation of this agreement on the one hand and the pressures caused by the application and intensification of unilateral US sanctions on the other hand, caused that one year after the withdrawal of the US from the JCPOA, finally on May 18, 2019 (May 8, 2019) the Supreme National Security Council of the Republic Islamic Iran should take decisions in order to stop step by step the implementation of voluntary measures of nuclear commitments by giving 60 days opportunities to diplomacy.

Iran fulfilled all its obligations under this agreement until one year after the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA in order to give the European countries who promised to compensate the effects of Washington’s withdrawal from the agreement a chance to try to fulfill this promise. However, due to the fact that European countries have not fulfilled their promises, he reduced his obligations under the JCPOA in several steps. The reduction of Iran’s obligations was based on the provisions of the JCPOA nuclear agreement.

After taking office in January 2021, the Democratic administration of Joe Biden condemned the unilateral action of the former administration of this country to withdraw from the Iran agreement and the P5+1 agreement, but so far it has failed to take any credible action to compensate for past misconduct. . The Biden administration has adopted the maximum pressure policies of the Donald Trump administration and has imposed sanctions in tandem with its western allies under the pretext of human rights in support of the unrest in Iran and has not given up on any measures and has clearly stated that instead of focusing on The negotiation and diplomacy approach that he has always chanted is focused on the unrest in Iran, but he claims that he is not seeking regime change in Iran.

The Biden government has also continued the sanctions policy against Iran in the war between Ukraine and Russia under the pretext of military cooperation between Tehran and Moscow and the claim of providing Iranian drones in this war, as well as in the Israeli war in Gaza under the pretext of Tehran’s support for resistance groups. .

Source: IRNA