{"id":1735620,"date":"2022-11-11T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735620"},"modified":"2022-11-11T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:03:25","slug":"fmr-state-dept-spox-iran-nuclear-deal-dead-as-anti-regime-protests-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-state-dept-spox-iran-nuclear-deal-dead-as-anti-regime-protests-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr State Dept Spox: Iran Nuclear Deal Dead as Anti-Regime Protests Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ffmr-state-dept-spox-iran-nuclear-deal-dead-as-anti-regime-protests-surge%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=1735620&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 Biden administration\u2019s negotiations over a revamped version of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are dead as the result of massive anti-regime protests that have swept across the Islamic Republic, according to the former Trump administration\u2019s State Department spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t see any room or any space for [the administration] to build back into&#8221; the long-stalled negotiations, Morgan Ortagus, who served under former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, said during a panel discussion Friday afternoon at the Richard Nixon Foundation\u2019s Grand Strategy Summit in Washington, D.C. &#8220;It would be a political disaster in the U.S. and a disaster for the people of Iran who are rejecting this regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How could the Biden administration &#8220;financially empower the very oppressors of the women and teenagers we\u2019re supposed to be standing up for and standing with?&#8221; Ortagus asked.<\/p>\n<p>Ortagus, who played a central role in the Trump administration\u2019s 2018 decision to abandon the nuclear deal and heavily sanction the Iranian regime, said the Biden administration has &#8220;zero leverage&#8221; with the Iranian regime at the moment. The nationwide protests that have swept across Iran in the last month are likely the final nail in the coffin for negotiations over a revamped nuclear deal, she said. While the Biden administration has condemned the Iranian government\u2019s violent crackdown on protesters, it has refrained from repeating the protesters\u2019 calls for regime change.<\/p>\n<p>Upon entering office, President Joe Biden\u2019s team &#8220;didn\u2019t have a plan for Iran except for going back into the JCPOA,&#8221; the official acronym for the Iran deal, Ortagus said. If the administration had been able to finalize another &#8220;weak and pathetic deal,&#8221; Ortagus said that around three-fourths of the Senate would have rejected it. Iran, she added, &#8220;played [Biden] for 18 months&#8221; and &#8220;I don\u2019t see any strategy&#8221; going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Alterman, a former State Department official who heads the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank, pushed back on Ortagus\u2019s assessment. He said the Trump administration\u2019s so-called maximum pressure campaign on Tehran\u2014which included the toughest sanctions regime in history\u2014failed because U.S. allies were not on board.<\/p>\n<p>It is &#8220;deeply mistaken and perhaps dishonest to argue the Biden admin thought the JCPOA was going to fix Iran,&#8221; Alterman said. &#8220;Our record of changing governments and putting something better in their place is pretty checkered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alterman said he agrees with the Biden administration\u2019s response to the anti-regime protest movement in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration\u2019s negotiations over a revamped version of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are dead as the result of massive anti-regime protests that have swept across the Islamic Republic, according to the former Trump administration\u2019s State Department spokeswoman.<br \/>\nThe post Fmr State Dept Spox: Iran Nuclear Deal Dead as Anti-Regime Protests Surge appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1735623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}