Biden’s disastrous concessions to Iran

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BY Abraham Wagner

As the U.S. appears to be pushing for a quick signing of a new nuclear deal, Iran is now viewing the Ukraine crisis as an economic opportunity to be quickly grasped. Oil and gas prices have skyrocketed to levels not seen in years, and the immediate entry of Iran into the energy market could line Iran’s pockets where the deficit budget is still based on oil prices before they spiked and on sales of a million barrels a day.

While the government is tripping over itself to disclose classified information about operations in Ukraine, it is also doing its best to hide information about the ongoing negotiations with Iran over a return to former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement. Fortunately, some brave souls like Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department official, and others are very concerned with the concessions being made by U.S. Negotiator Robert Malley in Vienna that amount to total capitulation to Iran.

Mr. Noronha has been warned that what Mr. Malley has negotiated with the Iranians is a total disaster. Even more appalling and unacceptable is that Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulanov has primarily run the entire negotiation. The U.S. and Iranian delegations have yet to meet face-to-face with the Russians, still serving as an intermediary, filtering and changing things to fit their agenda. Shocking that the news media now covering Russian atrocities in Ukraine have largely failed to cover this at all.

Read the rest of the article on The Washington Times.

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Abraham Wagner is a member of the Pacific Council. Dr. Abraham Wagner is Lecturer in Law at the Columbia Law School; Visiting Professor at New York  University and Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism..

This article was originally published by The Washington Times.

The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Pacific Council.