Iranian New Year is over, but the Biden administration’s missteps continue. These own goals perfectly characterize Washington’s policy toward Tehran: inattentive and tone-deaf.
Hopes return for Iran nuclear deal as US says prepared to re-engage
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Hopes returned for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal on Friday, as Washington said it was prepared to re-engage in diplomacy on the badly damaged accord, and Tehran did not rule out a meeting.
The United States is prepared to re-engage with international partners in the so-called P5+1 group – China, France, Russia, Britain, US plus Germany – on Iran’s nuclear programme, President Joe Biden told the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
“We must also address Iran’s destabilizing activities across the Middle East,” Biden cautioned. “And we’re going to work in close cooperation with our European and other partners as we proceed.”
The incoming Biden administration is inheriting from President Donald Trump an Iran-focused social media campaign that dramatically boosted U.S. engagement with Iranians by sharply criticizing their Islamist rulers, a strategy that President-elect Joe Biden appears set to change.
The incoming Biden administration is inheriting from President Donald Trump an Iran-focused social media campaign that dramatically boosted U.S. engagement with Iranians by sharply criticizing their Islamist rulers, a strategy that President-elect Joe Biden appears set to change.
Trump and his State Department used a variety of social media channels, messaging techniques and languages to exert what they called “maximum pressure” on Iran’s ruling clerics to stop perceived malign behaviors.
English By Michael Lipin Share on Facebook WASHINGTON - The incoming Biden administration is inheriting from President Donald Trump an Iran-focused social media campaign that dramatically boosted U.S. engagement with Iranians by sharply criticizing their Islamist rulers, a strategy that President-elect Joe Biden appears set to change.
Trump and his State Department used a variety of social media channels, messaging techniques and languages to exert what they called “maximum pressure” on Iran’s ruling clerics to stop perceived malign behaviors.
One dividend of that strategy was a huge increase in audience for the State Department’s Farsi-language Instagram account, according to Gabriel Noronha, who ran its Farsi social media channels from late 2019 to late 2020. In a recent interview with VOA Persian, Noronha said the department’s USAdarFarsi (USA in Farsi) Instagram account grew its followers from 147,000 in Januar