U.S. hits Iran with sanctions ahead of key nuke talks meeting

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

The United States on Friday hit Iran with a fresh set of sanctions as President Joe Biden prepares for a key weekend meeting with European leaders to discuss the possible resumption of nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.

The Treasury Department announced the new penalties against two senior members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and two affiliated companies for supplying lethal drones and related material to insurgent groups in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Ethiopia.

Although the sanctions are unrelated to Iran’s atomic program, the Biden administration has said it wants to build on a potential agreement to revive the languishing 2015 nuclear deal to include Iranian support for such groups and curtail its ballistic missile development.

Iran has yet to commit to a date to return to the nuclear talks in Vienna but has signaled it will do so next week with a target of late November for resuming the negotiations. The U.S. and others have expressed skepticism about Iranian intentions, and Biden is set to meet the leaders of Britain, France and Germany on Saturday in Rome to plot strategy on Iran.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/29/iran-sanctions-meeting-517645

[Midnight Writer]

1. I bet Tom Cotton is drafting a letter to Iran right now trying to scotch any nuclear deal.

What is sad is that it is rational for Iran to refuse a deal because in three years we may have another Republican President who will turn around and screw them again.