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Saturday, 23 January 2021_An American political analyst has said that the Israeli lobby is exerting pressure on US President Joe Biden not to return to the Iran nuclear deal.
Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster in San Antonio, Texas, made the remark during a phone interview with Press TV on Friday.
A new report has cited a “very senior Israeli official” as saying that the Tel Aviv regime would start snubbing the US if it reentered a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that was ditched by the Trump administration.
“If Biden adopts [former US president, Barack] Obama’s plan, we will have nothing to talk about with him,” the regime’s Channel 12 reported on Wednesday, citing the unnamed official.
Although the channel did not specify what plan the official meant, the online newspaper The Times of Israel said the official was referring to the nuclear agreement, officially called the Comprehensive Joint Action Plan (JCPOA), sealed in 2015 between Iran and the 5+1 group of countries (which was then made up of the US, the UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany).
The remarks came on the same day as Joe Biden took over the White House following the end of predecessor Donald Trump’s tenure.
Trump took the US out of the deal -- that is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- in 2018 following widely reported provocation on the part of Israel and some of its allied regional regimes.
The former president would continually vilify the JCPOA, calling it “the worst deal ever,” a term that has also been used for the agreement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Biden has suggested he could return the US to the agreement that was signed during Trump predecessor Barack Obama’s tenure.
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