The Iran nuclear deal of 2015, technically known as the JCPOA (Joint Common Plan of Action), marked an attempt on President Obama’s part to dismantle the deep Iranophobia prevailing in America for over four decades. Contrary to popular perception, the relations between Iran and U.S. did not break down when or because Ayatollah Khomeini drove the U.S.-backed the Shah in January 1979.
In November 1979, President Carter’s National Security Adviser Brzezinski met Iranian Prime Minister Bazargan in Algeria. The conversation did not end well as claimed by TIME. The TIME magazine’s account is wrong on many counts. It began well and the two sides agreed to collaborate to withstand Soviet expansionism. Bazargan got the news, during the conversation, that Carter had granted asylum to the Shah-n-Shah, and the conversation ended abruptly. Similarly, the claim that the militants acted on Khomeini’s orders is not correct. Carter later admitted that he took the decision on asylum on the basis of incorrect information.
Whatever it was, the event happened in 1979 and it is morally wrong for America to carry on vengeance for decades. By imposing economic sanctions, America has caused enormous harm to hundreds of thousands of Iranians.
As we know, President Trump notoriously exited the deal in contravention of the JCPOA and slapped the sanctions that Obama had lifted. Biden, campaigning for elections, had said that he would re-join the deal. After he won the election, his Secretary of State-designate, Antony J. Blinken, said that Trump’s policy of ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran was wrong.
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