“The bombers flew over the Sea of Japan early Tuesday and continued south toward the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea,” The New York Times’ EDWARD WONG reported. The InboxĬHINESE AND RUSSIAN BOMBERS FLY NEAR JAPAN: China and Russia held their first military drill since the invasion of Ukraine, coming when Biden just so happens to be in Asia building closer ties to allies. Lockheed Martin and Airbus announced the LMXT’s boom will be manufactured in Arkansas, reinforcing that the LMXT will be built in America for Americans by Americans. LMXT: Competitive capabilities for America’s next strategic tanker. The official made clear the administration’s position wasn’t going to change, “especially given ongoing threats by the IRGC against. official familiar with the issue told POLITICO last month, using an acronym for the deal’s official name: the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
position has been that unless Iran agrees to take certain steps to assuage security concerns beyond the JCPOA, Washington will not lift the terror designation, which itself is beyond the JCPOA,” a U.S. The news that Biden told Bennett and other foreign counterparts that he doesn’t plan to remove the IRGC from the terrorist list will make it even harder to backtrack. senators earlier this month supported a resolution that opposed lifting sanctions on the IRGC and declared that any nuclear deal with Tehran should also deal with Iran’s backing of terrorist activity. In recent weeks, Biden administration officials have signaled they are increasingly less likely to even consider lifting the terrorist designation, especially as both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have warned against doing so.Ī bipartisan supermajority of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday about the status of the negotiations. Rob Malley, Biden’s special envoy for the Iran talks, is due to testify before U.S. But supporters of a return to the deal argue that the terror label was among a host of non-nuclear penalties Trump imposed on Tehran partly to make it politically and legally harder to revive the agreement.Ī spokesperson for the National Security Council said, “We do not comment on private diplomatic discussions.” The Israeli prime minister’s office didn’t respond to requests for official comment. officials point out that the IRGC terrorist designation was technically never part of the nuclear deal itself, and they say that the deal could be restored with the designation still in place. But the United States has refused to do so, unless Iran offers some security-related concessions beyond the nuclear agreement. Iranian officials want the United States to lift the terror label before Tehran returns to compliance with the nuclear deal.
The designation was part of the “maximum pressure” campaign then-President DONALD TRUMP imposed on Iran after pulling the United States out of the nuclear deal, which had restricted Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief. The United States placed the IRGC on its “ Foreign Terrorist Organizations” list in 2019. President JOE BIDEN has finalized his decision to keep Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on a terrorist blacklist, according to a senior Western official, further complicating international efforts to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.Īnother person familiar with the matter said Biden conveyed his decision during an April 24 phone call with Israeli Prime Minister NAFTALI BENNETT, adding that the decision was relayed as absolutely final and that the window for Iranian concessions had closed.Īfter their conversation, Bennett said in a statement: “I am sure that President Biden, who is a true friend of Israel and cares about its security, will not allow the IRGC to be removed from the list of terrorist organizations.” The White House’s readout said the two leaders spoke about “the threat posed by Iran and its proxies.” Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Alex | Email Quint With help from Lara Seligman and Daniel Lippman Hossein Salami attends a ceremony in Tehran on the occasion of the first anniversary of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani's death, Jan.
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