TEHRAN -- Iran on Wednesday strongly condemns the occupying regime of Israel’s recent push to bring Syria’s Golan Heights to the fore of Tel Aviv’s occupation schemes.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh denounced the regime’s earlier “cabinet meeting” in the Syrian plateau that came after the regime announced a blueprint that foresees construction of some 7,300 additional settler units on the strategic territory. to when the U.S. struck the deal in 2015. Therefore, she said, Washington had to go down a different path if it sought to return to the deal.
Iran’s response to these shenanigans was a tough, but principled policy which constituted its “active resistance”.
The country began to scale down its obligations as per the deal, making it clear that for the U.S. to return to the deal, it had to remove all the sanctions that it had imposed on Iran. Tehran also insisted that the U.S. had to provide guarantees the new administration would not repeat the previous one’s illegal measures.
Iran’s practical steps in the face of the Biden administration’s duplicitous adoption of Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” to extract more concessions from the Islamic Republic prompted Tehran to ramp up its uranium enrichment from five to 20 percent, and then move toward the 60-percent purity level, beside using a new generation of centrifuges.
The Iranian parliament’s ratification of the Strategic Action Plan to Counter Sanctions and Protect the Iranian Nation’s Rights plus the country’s ramping up of its peaceful nuclear activities and limiting IAEA inspections to the Safeguards Agreement sent across the message to the new U.S. administration that Tehran would never cave in in the face of America’s excessive demands and brinksmanship, whether it was coming from the Republicans or the Democrats under the guise of the negotiations.
The U.S. administration’s new game lasted for five months and after the Biden foreign policy team did not succeed to force Iran into concession, talks resumed among the deal’s Joint Commission without direct American participation.
Iran’s previous administration conducted six rounds of talks, with the Western side still trying to apply various political, psychological, and media pressures in order to impose their demands on the Islamic Republic. However, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) did not condone certain unacceptable maneuvers by the previous Iranian administration.
Then came Iran’s 13th presidential elections, which President Ebrahim Raisi won by a landslide, with the result serving a clear message to the West, including the U.S.
The victory epitomized the Iranian people’s disenchantment with the West for failing to abide by their obligations and weariness with those inside Iran who sought cooperation with the U.S. and Europeans at any cost.
Faced with Iran’s decisive reaction, the United States has been forced to row back on its excessive demands and illogical positions, but it is also trying to soften up Iranian negotiators through a psychological warfare by insinuating that the window is closing for the sides to save the deal.
The question that the Western side, especially the Americans, have failed to answer so far is why the time element always has to work against Iran!
Why is the time element so important now, while it was not during the years following Trump’s departure from the deal and his imposition of the toughest sanctions ever on Iran or even during the five months after the new administration came to power, when it failed to work towards removing the sanctions, and instead sought to use Trump’s sanctions for pressuring Iran?
Without a doubt, Iran’s principled position will not change in the face of the U.S. and European political and psychological games, and the Iranian negotiators will not compromise on their nation’s rights under the pressure of bogus timelines.
If the Western sides are so pressed for time, the best and fastest way of relieving themselves is for them to remove all their sanctions and return to their commitments under the deal.