{"id":121806,"date":"2021-02-09T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121806"},"modified":"2021-02-09T08:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:43:35","slug":"biden-america-will-not-lift-sanctions-unless-iran-stops-enriching-uranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-america-will-not-lift-sanctions-unless-iran-stops-enriching-uranium\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden: America Will Not Lift Sanctions Unless Iran Stops Enriching Uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-america-will-not-lift-sanctions-unless-iran-stops-enriching-uranium%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The United States will not lift <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-sanctions\">sanctions<\/a> against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-iran\">Iran<\/a> unless the Middle East nation halts uranium enrichment, President Joe Biden said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by CBS whether the United States would lift sanctions first to kickstart negotiations with Iran, Biden said, \u201cNo.\u201d He then gestured in the affirmative when anchor Norah O\u2019Donnell asked whether Iran would have to stop enriching uranium first.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Obama administration, the United States and a slew of other countries lifted sanctions against Iran in return for caps on certain activities linked to nuclear weapons for 10 to 15 years. Former President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-withdraws-from-iran-deal-orders-reimposing-highest-level-sanctions_2517377.html\">arguing<\/a> the deal did not \u201cbring calm\u201d or \u201cpeace\u201d and that \u201cit never will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration reimposed harsh sanctions, which remain in place to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/iran-makes-major-nuclear-power-play-after-top-general-killed-by-u-s_3194304.html\">revealed<\/a> they had begun advanced uranium enrichment again, violating the 2015 deal, even though European nations remained in the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran will end its final limitations in the nuclear deal, meaning the limitation in the number of centrifuges,\u201d the Iranian regime said at the time. \u201cTherefore Iran\u2019s nuclear program will have no limitations in production including enrichment capacity and percentage and number of enriched uranium and research and expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-must-lift-sanctions-before-tehran-rejoins-nuclear-deal-iran_3689678.html\">said<\/a>\u00a0during a recent meeting that Iran \u201chas fulfilled all its obligations\u201d under the 2015 deal and urged the United States to lift sanctions, or else Iran would continue violating the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3690571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/khameni-1200x792-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with army\u2019s air force and air defense staff in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 7, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)<\/p>\n<p>Biden while campaigning last year said he would reenter the agreement if he were elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe historic Iran nuclear deal, negotiated by the Obama-Biden administration alongside our allies and other world powers, blocked Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Yet Trump decided to cast it aside, prompting Iran to restart its nuclear program and become more provocative, bringing the region to the cusp of another disastrous war,\u201d Biden\u2019s campaign website states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Tehran returns to compliance with the deal, President Biden would reenter the agreement, using hard-nosed diplomacy and support from our allies to strengthen and extend it, while more effectively pushing back against Iran\u2019s other destabilizing activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Situation Room\u201d on Monday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Iran must comply with its obligations under the agreement for the United States to return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent months, Iran has lifted one restraint after another that was\u2014they were being held in check by the agreement. We got out of the agreement, Iran started to lift the various restraints in the agreement, and the result is they are closer than they\u2019ve been to having the capacity on short order to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agreement had pushed that past a year. According to public reports now, it\u2019s down to three or four months and heading in the wrong direction. So the first thing that\u2019s so critical is for Iran to come back into compliance with its obligations. They\u2019re a ways from that. But if they do that, the path of diplomacy is there, and we\u2019re willing to walk it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will not lift sanctions against Iran unless the Middle East nation halts uranium enrichment, President Joe Biden said in a recent interview. 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