Former White House official: Kamala Harris seeks a new nuclear agreement with Iran.
According to Fox News, Joel Rubin, an expert on Middle East politics who also worked as the Deputy Advisor to the Secretary of State for Executive Affairs during the presidency of Barack Obama, claims that if Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate wins in the Presidential elections in November, he will reach an agreement with Tehran similar to JCPOA.
Rubin, who played a role in the JCPOA negotiations, claimed: The era of thinking that the old nuclear agreement can be revived is over. Iran’s progress in its atomic program has exceeded previous limits, and as a result, the goal should be a robust and verifiable nuclear agreement that limits and manages the ability to accelerate the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
He claimed that the best way to do this is a solid and verifiable nuclear agreement. Any realistic president would seek such an agreement, and Kamala Harris is a potential president with such a realistic approach.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed by Iran and members of the United Nations Security Council and the European Union in 2015.
Republicans and some moderate Democrats were against this agreement and claimed that it was too weak to limit the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Donald Trump, the former president and Republican candidate in the November presidential election of the United States, unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018. However, Barack Obama’s allies have always said that the deal is necessary to “limit the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”
Without referring to Iran’s constant emphasis on the peacefulness of its nuclear program, Rubin further claimed that there must be a way to limit Iran’s nuclear ambitions.