US and Israel won’t stop trying to shackle Iran

By J Michael Springman

Well over the last few years ever since the United States withdrew unilaterally from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran has scrupulously adhered to the agreement and granted that it enriched uranium in greater amounts than the agreement provided and increased its holding of heavy water, which is beyond what the original agreement provided but as the Iranian government has repeatedly said we can wipe this all away and we can get rid of this stuff if the United States and the European signatories Britain, France and Germany agree to abide by the agreement and drop the sanctions against Iran which is crippling the economy, crippling the population itself by blocking imports of necessary medical goods and doing its very best to destroy the operation of the Iranian government.

It's a simple matter to do, but I am not optimistic that the United States will do it. Should Joe Biden be inaugurated as president on January 20 he has said that he's going to engage the hard-nosed negotiations with Iran over its missile systems, something dear to the heart of the Israelis and dear to the heart of the right-wing neocons that have infested the American government for years and which Joe Biden is bringing back to power throughout his administration.

So I think that it's a simple matter of dropping the sanctions and rejoining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which really provides for outrageous invasions of Iranian privacy within international inspections, teams filled with espionage agents, I believe.

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But, Iran has adhered to this and it's been proven at least 15 times by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran is adhering strictly to the provisions of the JCPOA. So I am not optimistic that anything's really going to change.

I think Biden is going to follow Trump's viewpoint, and, of course, Obama. He created this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with restrictions on Iran and restrictions on Iran's nuclear program. So I think it's near to the heart of the American government and to the Israeli government, the apartheid entity to shackle Iran, and to prevent Iran from supporting people fighting against American imperialism in Syria and Lebanon and Iraq and other countries.

So I think that the Americans want Iran to stop this. Israel wants Iran to stop this. And I think we're gonna have more the same throughout the Biden administration.

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J. Michael Springmann is an American political commentator, author and former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia. He is based in Washington. He recorded this article for Press TV website.

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