 When Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA otherwise known as the Iran nuclear agreement You know and started saber-rattling against Iran and almost bombed them according to multiple reports I thought there's no way that the next administration if it is democratic is going to be able to get us back into this peace agreement with Iran because that's effectively what the JCPOA was it was a peace agreement Iran agrees to not enrich uranium to a certain extent and as a result there's no justification for an invasion or regime change when we get You know a bloodthirsty administration that wants to actually do regime change and you know We came close during the Trump years with John Bolton in his ear But I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Iran was actually willing to come to the table and the president of Iran Actually had called on the incoming Biden administration to re-enter the agreement So I thought wow, maybe this is possible. Maybe this can work except fast-forward to today and Biden's administration is dragging its feet when it comes to renegotiation of this agreement and I don't know if Joe Biden is going back on his campaign promise to re-enter the Iran nuclear agreement Or if there's a saboteur in the ranks of the Biden administration who is trying to make peace less possible I'm talking about Anthony Blinken and let me just say before we get into the specifics here that if the Biden administration fucks this up Then the next Republican administration is definitely not going to re-enter this peace agreement they're definitely going to continue to escalate and Ramp up the tensions as Trump did so we have one chance We can't mess this up But they're already bungling it and we got signs that this would be the case when Secretary of State Anthony Blinken emphasized the Importance of consulting with Israel before re-entering the Iran nuclear agreement We don't have to consult with another country about our Relationship with a different country that doesn't involve them Especially when that government who we are supposedly going to be consulting with is hell bent on Escalation and regime change we then learned that Secretary Blinken was fear-mongering about Iran suggesting that they could Be weeks away from having material needed to build a nuclear bomb And now Newsweek is reporting that Biden's administration has dodged an offer from Iran to discuss their re-entry into the deal Now we will listen to the new Secretary of State struggled to articulate a good reason why we're not actually Talking with Iran why we're giving them the cold shoulder when they're literally reaching out to pursue peace With regard to Iran President Biden has been Very clear in saying that if Iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the JCPOA The United States would do the same thing and then we would use that As a platform to build with our allies and partners What we called a longer and stronger agreement and to deal with a number of other issues that are deeply problematic in the relationship with Iran, but we are a long ways from that point Iran is out of compliance on a number of fronts and It would take some time should it make the decision to do so for it to come back into compliance and time for us then to assess Whether it was meeting its obligations, so we're not We're not there yet to say the least and then with regard to How we would engage this issue if Iran decides to come back into compliance I can tell you that we will we will build a a strong team of experts and We will bring to bear different perspectives on the issue We this This is something I would say this across the board by the way One of the things that I feel very strongly about Is that in any of the issues we're engaged on in any of the issues that we're tackling and that our foreign policy has to confront? That we are constantly questioning our own assumptions and premises That we we do not engage in in groupthink that there is as much Self-criticism and self-reflection as we get from appropriately The outside whether it's from from you or whether it's from people who disagree with the policies We're pursuing so I think you can expect to see that as we move forward both with regard potentially to Iran And for that matter to just about any other issue we tackle. Thank you So to put it more simply he's saying that we're not going to talk with Iran without preconditions We will renegotiate the terms of the JCPOA if and only if they're within compliance of set agreement that we pulled out from What? We're the ones who withdrew Unilaterally from that agreement. We're the ones who broke the deal We're the ones who weren't compliant with the deal So isn't that a little bit unreasonable like imagine if Iran said, you know what? We're not talking after you violated the terms of this agreement unless You get rid of all the sanctions We're not going to talk with you unless there are preconditions Imagine if they said that we would be Outraged by it the US government more specifically would be outraged and they think you know, they would think how dare you Put these conditions on this negotiations like we're the United States. How dare you do that? But Iran is being pretty reasonable here. They're saying hey, here's an olive branch Do you want to get back into this agreement? Which is mutually beneficial or do you not and? Biden's administration at least for now is Saying you need to do this for me first Do you want peace or not because if you fuck this up if you don't Renegotiate this deal re-enter the JCPOA guess what happens a bloodthirsty neocon is going to get power and actually do what Trump was too Afraid to do bomb Iran start a war with Iran. I Mean this is part of Biden's campaign promise So I don't know if Anthony Blinken is at odds with Joe Biden and is undermining him, but either way This is absolutely despicable Talk to them pursue peace even if you fail the mere fact that you're pursuing peace That in and of itself Makes you worthy of applause Donald Trump was in over his head when it came to negotiations with North Korea I don't think he had the first clue about Korean politics I don't think he knew what would actually facilitate long-lasting peace between the North and South of Korea and You know North Korea and the United States, but the mere fact that he was talking to them and not trying to you know, threaten them every other day That that was preferable. That's better like we should be pursuing peace We should be trying To write the wrongs of the past four years as you claim you wanted to do Joe Biden Donald Trump withdrew and you disagreed with that So now why are you doing Donald Trump's bidding by not talking to Iran to form this peace agreement? We violated the deal we reimposed sanctions After we pledged to not do that because that was the terms of the deal So if you can acknowledge that they're not in compliance anymore that acknowledged that we're also not in compliance I mean look, this is all early discussions. Maybe they're just posturing either way It's deeply infuriating because I did not even expect Iran to want to work with the US again because it's a hard sell It's a really hard sell like the hardliners in Iran They already were against the JCPOA in the first place and so you're making it a lot more difficult for the moderates To sell this to everyone else in the country like the Iranian people are much more moderate than the government itself But the moderates within government at Iran like you're making their job a lot more difficult You're making this a harder sell and if you genuinely want peace if you want to like put back together the pieces of Obama's legacy that Trump destroyed This is easy. This is easy This is a simple thing you can do that the left would be happy with and that would actually be meaningful But they're botching it and now that I'm shitting on Joe Biden I should also take the time to Call out the fact that his administration is considering Rom Emmanuel to be the ambassador to China or Japan and I just don't understand why they can't let this guy go. He covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald He's a racist. Why do you have to give him some job? Like I don't understand the relationship here. Why you're so attached to him. So look, I'll leave that there I don't know why Democrats have such a hard on for For Rom Emmanuel and I don't know why this is so difficult for Joe Biden's administration Trump undid your legacy. Do you want to repair what was broken or? Do you want to like? Make it easier for some neocon who comes to power to invade Iran. I Don't know but either way. I don't like it. I don't like what I'm seeing This is bad. And if it doesn't change then we actually need to form an Anti-war movement in the country I mean we need that regardless but the reason why both parties are so hawkish is because there's zero pressure I mean part of it is capitalist forces. All right as well, obviously, you know the defense industry the military industrial complex But we have to have some sort of leverage and unless there's like a real movement to stop wars in this country Like this is going to be the status quo. It's not gonna change regardless of you like Democrats or Republicans So, you know, if he doesn't actually move towards peace It's early But if he doesn't act and if we continue to see what looks to be sabotage by Secretary Blinken then there needs to be pressure on Biden's administration. Absolutely without question War with Iran is is not even on the table at all. It should never be