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Biden administration reaffirms US opposition to Iranian nuclear weapon
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price speaks to reporters in Washington. (Photo: AFP/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – State Department Spokesperson, Ned Price, reaffirmed the Biden administration’s opposition to Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon.
“Joe Biden has been very clear” and “we will not countenance a nuclear-armed Iran, Price said, as he briefed reporters on Thursday
“Our approach,” Price continued, emphasizing that the new administration’s approach is a “diplomatic one” will be “to ensure that Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon.”
Even if diplomacy is the Biden administration’s approach (and there is no evident reason to doubt that), it is unclear why Price would gratuitously reassure Tehran on that score. It was, after all, the US-led attack on Iraq that overthrew Saddam Hussein’s regime which prompted Tehran to suspend its nuclear program
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