By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Iran was absolutely right to announce immediately after formation of the new popularly elected government led by President Hojjat al-Islam Ibrahim Raisi that the Islamic Republic’s policy will no longer be tied to the 2015 Geneva Accord known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA), which the US so criminally breached in 2018 and towards which the three European Signatories never honoured their commitments.
Now comes the threat of a leading senator – Ted Cruz – that even if the current Democrat regime of President Joe Biden were to return to the JCPOA, the next regime in the White House, which is likely to be a Republican one, will tear it to pieces.
Does it mean, Iran made a strategic blunder when it bowed to the American blackmail to agree to the one-sided clauses of the JCPOA in return for partial lifting of the illegal sanctions and release of a fistful of dollars from the Islamic Republic’s own illegal frozen funds of hundreds of billions of dollars?
Only time will tell. Anyway judgement in this regard rests with the esteemed political and economic experts of Iran, as well as with the religious scholars fully conscious of the shari’ah in protecting the goals of the revolution and the Islamic Republic’s prestige, in view of the current situation of the country’s economy and the plummeting power of purchase of the people.
We are not concerned here, whether the JCPOA was a success or a self-inflicted wound. What we intend to point out is the undeniable fact that Iran was forced into a deal with the roguish regimes of the US, France, Britain, and Germany, which had decided well before putting their signatures on the accord to deceive the Islamic Republic by never fulfilling their promises.
This is fully evident by the procrastination, intransigence, and threats of more illegal sanctions by the Biden regime instead of returning to JCPOA, while the EU 3 has more or less adopted the same stonewalling tactics to Iran’s just demands.
In other words, even if the current regime in the White House has a sudden change of heart and decides to given guarantees to Iran, there is no surety, whether it or the next regime, would fulfill any promises.
To sum up, JCPOA is not a holy writ. It was a time-bound accord that was never fully materialized.
In view of Iran’s sincerity towards it as the only world country which considers manufacture of weapons of mass destruction “haraam” (religiously forbidden), the other parties to it should end their policy of economic terrorism against the Islamic Republic, so that the country could continue its path of progress, unhindered, to ensure the economic welfare of the Iranian people and the stability of the whole region, which has been destabilized by the hegemonic policies of the US, the meddling of the Europeans, the crimes of Israel, and the terrorism of the takfiris.