{"id":249935,"date":"2021-10-29T07:56:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=249935"},"modified":"2023-02-02T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:41:08","slug":"tehrans-nuclear-extortion-grow-worse-as-eu-refuses-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/tehrans-nuclear-extortion-grow-worse-as-eu-refuses-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran\u2019s Nuclear Extortion Grow Worse as EU Refuses To Act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month, the Iranian regime adopted a new delaying tactic as various Iranian officials began pushing for an entirely separate set of nuclear negotiations in Brussels<\/a>, ostensibly aimed at establishing conditions for the continuation of the Vienna talks that already went through six rounds before being stalled in June. What would be the ultimate result of these preliminary negotiations?<\/p>\n

Tehran aims to make a separation between the US and its European allies, and the Iranian regime\u2019s mere request for such talks underscores its expectation that it can squeeze more concessions from the European Union than from a unified Western bloc.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the EU leadership has given the Iranian regime ample reason to maintain that expectation, with foreign policy chief Josep Borrell even going so far as to undermine efforts that member states took to hold Tehran accountable for its nuclear extortion.<\/p>\n

Early in 2020, Tehran declared it would no longer be complying with any of the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA<\/a>). In response, the three European signatories \u2013 Britain, France, and Germany, initiated a dispute resolution process that should have either enforced those provisions or re-imposed UN sanctions on the regime within a matter of months. But Borrell quickly announced the EU\u2019s willingness to stretch out the process indefinitely, meaning that the clerical regime would be under no additional pressure after its violations than it had been before.<\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s conciliatory approach to the nuclear issue has persisted ever since, even now with Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s administration<\/a> that doesn\u2019t have the \u201cmoderate\u201d fa\u00e7ade. Raisi has stacked his cabinet with representatives of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and has a history of human rights abuses including high-level participation in a massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s regime continues to defy the international community on its nuclear program<\/div><\/div>
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