Iran Press/ America: If elected president in November, former US Vice President Joe Biden would have all US sanctions on Iran stay in place, including the ones enacted under US President Donald Trump, according to the presumptive Democratic nominee’s top foreign-policy adviser.
In a discussion during the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Virtual Global Forum on Wednesday with former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland, Tony Blinken, who was deputy secretary of state and deputy national security advisor under former US President Barack Obama, said: "Iran would have to come back into full compliance and unless until it did, obviously, all sanctions would remain in place,” The Algemeiner, a Journal which covers American and international Jewish and Israel-related news, reported.
"And then, if we come back into compliance, we would use that as a platform with our partners and allies who would be on the same side with us again to negotiate a longer and stronger deal," continued Blinken. "President Trump’s actions have had the unfortunate result, among others, of isolating the United States, not Iran. We need to flip that."
The United States withdrew from the nuclear deal, JCPOA in May 2018, reimposing sanctions lifted under it, along with enacting new penalties in what the Trump administration has called a 'maximum pressure' campaign against Iran.
At the same time, Blinken criticized the Trump administration’s approach to Iran, including withdrawing from the nuclear deal and abruptly withdrawing US forces from northern Syria in October.
Blinken touted that Biden has demonstrated in word and in deed an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security, including when he was vice president, citing US funding for the Iron Dome missile-defense system and the 10-year, $38 billion memoranda of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Israel agreed to in 2016. 212/ 207
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