Iran will return to full compliance with the terms of the nuclear deal, if and only if, the US lifts all sanctions on Iran in one move.

Tehran has decried this blatant act of nuclear terrorism, describing it as a desperate move by Tel Aviv to hinder negotiations underway in Vienna and a futile attempt at hindering Iranian nuclear achievements.

The latest round of talks on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA, ended with no tangible result in Vienna.

The new US administration of President Joe Biden has signaled its willingness to rejoin the JCPOA, yet it has conditioned the move on Tehran's resumption of its commitments under the 2015 deal.

Despite the US not lifting the sanctions, contrary to expectation, Iran has struck a deal with the IAEA in which Iran’s nuclear activities would be recorded by Iran itself rather than the IAEA, for 3 months, in an attempt to give diplomacy another chance.

The first military action under taken by Joe Biden as president of the United States was to bomb Syria cementing himself as another warmonger in the Oval Office.

After the US departure from the nuclear agreement, Europe undertook 11 commitments to safeguard Iran's JCPOA interests in areas such as oil sales, insurance, aviation, shipping and industrial cooperation, none of which have been fulfilled so far.

The US administration has announced three gestures toward Iran in an apparent break with former president Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran. Iran however has stated that is does not even come close to its demand that all sanctions be lifted.

The current, outgoing, US administration has ignored its commitment to international law but with a new US president waiting in the wings, to take over from outgoing President Trump, the country may return to honoring deals it’s made.

January the 3rd Major General Qassem Soleimani was assassinated by a US drone-strike in Baghdad. And towards the year-end a nuclear scientist, Dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated.