- Delay could pressure oil markets, fuel Persian Gulf tensions
- Iran’s oil exports remain under punishing American sanctions
World powers and Iran suspended their efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, reigniting a crisis that’s set to roil already surging oil markets and potentially plunge the energy-exporting Persian Gulf into a new cycle of violence.
A pause in the Vienna talks was required due to “external factors,” European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Twitter, without elaborating. Borrell said the sides had come very close to agreement but didn’t say when — or if — the negotiations would be able to resume.
The rupture follows escalating tensions between the Kremlin and the White House. Russia warned on Saturday that it wanted U.S. guarantees that sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine wouldn’t affect its planned partnership with Iran.
U.S. and European officials had warned for weeks that the window for a deal was closing, urging an agreement on a handful of outstanding issues.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the pause wasn’t necessarily the end of the road, and could provide momentum to resolve the outstanding issues.
After Vladimir Putin ordered his forces into Ukraine, fresh barriers to resurrecting the accord arose.
“Undoubtedly the war in Ukraine has made it more difficult to get an agreement,” said Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, who helped facilitate the talks, this week. Diplomats had “been trying to push for a deal before Russia’s war in Ukraine happened because we knew that it would create a lot of complexity.”
Russia weighed in with its new condition just hours after the head of the world’s nuclear watchdog announced from Tehran that one of the last major hurdles to a deal had been cleared. Up until that moment, diplomats had said on and off the record that a deal could be announced within days.
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Israel will straighten this out for Dementia Joe and Susan Rice and Baracky Osmidgen.
So Vlad the Impaler screws another of the pudding heads priorities in the ass.
Sweet Baby Jesus, who thought we would live in the world were our enemy becomes our ally against an even bigger enemy.
The enemy from within. Make no mistake the plan is to destroy America from within and now ironically a major piece of that plan has been neutered.
I see the fine hand and even finer intelligence of Israel in this. Not so difficult since you are dealing with two imbecilic heads of state both with volatile tempers.
Stirring up the gumbo that is the Pedos brain and personality is child’s play to Isreal. They know they are dealing with children here.
The Allatoyah of Rockarolla is also a squealing child. Not difficult to get two toddlers to give up and eat their own crayons.
So bravo Vald and Israel, bravo.
The likelihood of being nuked by Iran just diminished, however the Pedo is still working hard to get Vald to impale us…
Stupid ass, feckless, incontinent, cowardly child groping bastard.