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The Iranian regime is continually demanding concessions from western powers as they strive to contain the clerical regime\u2019s drive for a nuclear weapons capability. Fortunately, the international community has shown little willingness to give into that regime\u2019s ultimatums, which include demands for the abrupt closure of the file on past military dimensions of Iran\u2019s nuclear program, as well as the removal of terrorist designation for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a>.<\/p>\n On the other hand, major Western powers have proven consistently unwilling to deprive Tehran of opportunities to go on reiterating those demands and outlining the concessions it hopes to receive. They could easily do so, however, if only they asserted the political will to halt negotiations to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Over the course of 18 months, those negotiations have gone practically nowhere, and their only consistent effect is the prevention of measures that might compel the regime to stop accelerating its nuclear program, which is now operating multiple cascades of advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium beyond 60 percent fissile purity.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s board of governors held its quarterly meeting, wherein the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was naturally a major topic of discussion. Some observers anticipated that the Western signatories to that deal \u2013 the United States, Britain, France, and Germany \u2013 would call for censure of Tehran as they did at the previous quarterly meeting in June. But some also predicted that further censure would be a death knell for JCPOA revival efforts. This is presumably why the US and the E3 stopped short of a formal declaration concerning Tehran\u2019s violations<\/a>.<\/p>\n This inaction cannot be explained in terms of Western expectations that a new censure resolution wouldn\u2019t pass. The first one passed with yea votes from 30 of the board\u2019s 35 member states. And when Germany saw fit to present the board with an informal declaration expressing the same concerns general concerns, 23 member states voted in favor of that, as well.<\/p>\n There can be little doubt that there is strong international support for measures that might be more effective than the current, fruitless negotiations at preventing Iran\u2019s nuclear \u201cbreakout\u201d. And yet every opportunity to impose those measures seems to pass by while the JCPOA\u2019s signatories continue moving the goalposts<\/a> for what constitutes a successful agreement and when it might be achieved.<\/p>\n The regime\u2019s nuclear dossier must be referred to the UN Security Council as soon as possible, and the six UNSC resolutions should be reinstated by the trigger mechanism, which should have been done a long time ago#Iran<\/a>#JCPOA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/9SK0sAe9LD<\/a><\/p>\n — Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) September 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n