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Biden administration says it's ready to join talks to resume Iran nuclear deal, undoing Trump's pressure campaign
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Updated: 7:11 AM CST Feb 19, 2021
By MATTHEW LEE
Biden administration says it's ready to join talks to resume Iran nuclear deal, undoing Trump's pressure campaign
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Updated: 7:11 AM CST Feb 19, 2021
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there's a couple headlines this evening. I think that one of the most important ones, though, is that the US has said that it is willing to sit down again at a table negotiating table with Iran and the other participants in the 2015 nuclear deal to discuss about how both Iran and the United States congee back into compliance with the agreement. So that's Ah, pretty significant and pretty sharp or peut ation of the previous administration's policies toward Iran. The Trump administration had sought had had had embarked on a maximum pressure campaign that sought to really isolate Iran, cut it off from the international financial system, Um, and essentially trying to starve it out of what they called its malign activities. Um, not only with its nuclear program, but throughout the region. This is really return and a return by that by the return thio multilateral multilateral diplomacy, which is something that President Biden had said that he would do so. It's not a surprise, um, in that respect, but what it is is a sharp, sharp divergence from the policies of the previous administration