U.S. Iran’s “political truce” limits nuclear enrichment to 60%, Korea freezes Iran’s 7 billion won “brake”
The United States and Iran have entered into hostile relations by applying a’60% limit on enriched nuclear weapons’ through negotiations on a’political truce’, but South Korea has put a brake on the Biden Democratic Party’s nuclear negotiations with Iran due to the delay in lifting the $7 billion frozen fund.
Iraq's 2.5 billion euros in Iran's frozen funds, which were frozen like Korea's, were lifted and paid after December last year when the US-Iran negotiations began.
The Korean government announced on the 29th of last month on the premise of lifting the’condition that it is used only for public purposes, such as payment of UN contributions and purchase of a Corona 19 vaccine’.
The Biden administration will show results in negotiations on the release of detained Americans based on the’60% limit on uranium enrichment’ in the Iranian nuclear program, and the Iranian nuclear negotiations in the US presidential election next year will again stand in the line of confrontation between the Democratic and Republican parties.
US Secretary of State Tony Blinken visited China on the 18th and previously revealed 'China's contribution to resolving the North Korean nuclear issue', 'North Korea accepts regular nuclear inspections of North Korean uranium enrichment concentration' and 'economic sanctions' in the agreement to block a lethal attack against the United States. It seems that a 'political truce mediation plan' of negotiations on lifting diplomatic ties with Japan will come out.
On the 14th, the Ministry of Unification started a lawsuit in the Seoul Central District Court claiming 44.7 billion won, including 10.25 billion won in damages to state-owned property (offices) and 34.45 billion won in losses at the comprehensive support center, in compensation for damages to the inter-Korean liaison office that North Korea blew up three years ago.
The New York Times reported on the 14th, citing an official, that Iranian officials labeled negotiations with the Biden administration a “political truce.”
The contents of the talks between the US and Iran were confirmed by three senior Israeli officials, an Iranian official and a US official, the New York Times said.
Iranian state-run media said in response to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's remarks, "We can support an agreement with the West if Iran's nuclear infrastructure is not damaged by unexpected rhetorical changes." "Iran must maintain at least cooperative relations with international nuclear inspectors On the 13th, he reported the 'acceptance of the temple' and announced the conclusion of the negotiations.
"Our number one policy is to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon, and we are watching Iran's nuclear enrichment activities," said State Department spokesman Matt Miller on the 14th. We believe that this is the path of success, but we are preparing for every possible option and emergency."
Regarding the process for congressional approval of the deal, the NYT said, “US rejection of the pending ‘nuclear agreement’ (Republican Trump regime) may depend on semantics if the outcome falls under the informal understanding described by various officials, but such an understanding is Iranian. It would not require the approval of the U.S. Congress, which is deeply hostile to the
Regarding the Democratic Party’s Biden administration’s negotiating goals, “a long-standing exacerbated by Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which is close to 90% bomb-grade purity, supplying Russia with drones for use in Ukraine, and brutally suppressing domestic political protests. It is to prevent further escalation of hostile relations,” the NYT said.
As the US Republican Party strongly opposes the Democratic Party's nuclear agreement with Iran, the Biden administration's negotiations are likely to become an issue during the presidential election campaign next year. announced on the 14th.
The Yoon Seok-yeol administration, in a system that supports the conservative policy of the US Republican Party, is expected to have friction with the negotiations of the Biden administration of the Democratic Party with a hard line on the issue of nuclear negotiations in the next presidential election.
In the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States, the Obama administration's "Iran Nuclear Agreement" (JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) was concluded in the fierce confrontation between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, and the Trump Republican Party withdrew from the launch and destroyed it, and Iran strengthened nuclear enrichment. As tensions rose, the Biden system announced the restoration of the JCPOA as a presidential election pledge.
In the Trump regime's withdrawal, the first thing to do was to freeze South Korea's crude oil exports to Iran for $7 billion, and in the Biden administration's Iran negotiations, the Yoon Seok-yeol system was connected.
Regarding South Korea's $7 billion frozen fund, the WSJ said, "According to former government officials in Korea who are familiar with this issue, Iran and the United States are continuing discussions over the lifting of the freeze for humanitarian purposes." It seems to be connected to the 'hardline policy of negotiations'.
The Biden Democratic Party system started high-level discussions with Iran in New York in December of last year, and since then, negotiations have been carried out by both NYT and WSJ reports, with White House officials visiting Oman at least three times to deliver messages between Iran and Iran as Oman intermediaries.
During the negotiation process, the Biden administration approved the payment of 2.5 billion euros ($2.76 billion) for electricity and gas imported from Iran in Iraq, which was a frozen fund for Iran under the Trump regime, and the lifting of the frozen fund in Korea was also By nature, Korea is not attempting to unfreeze.
The NYT said, “The US Republican Party accused the Biden administration of releasing billions of dollars of frozen Iranian cash, which it said made possible subsidies for terrorist activities.”
In an attempt to negotiate with Iran at the beginning of the Biden administration’s launch, Iran stated as a precondition that’return to negotiations after prioritization of frozen funds’.
Regarding the nuclear negotiations, the NYT said, “Iran will agree not to enrich uranium beyond its current production purity of 60%, under a new agreement that two Israeli officials have called ‘imminent’,” adding, “This will lead to the 90% purity required for nuclear weapons. It is close to, but falls short of, the level at which the United States has warned that it will force a stern response.”
"Iranian officials have said they will stop deadly attacks on US contractors in Syria and Iraq, expand cooperation with international nuclear inspectors, and refrain from selling ballistic missiles to Russia," the New York Times said.
International Crisis Group Iran director Ali Vaez said of the negotiations, "None of these aims to reach a breakthrough agreement." It is a blockade of any activity that puts it in a possible position to retaliate in a way that creates, and the negotiations are to stabilize tensions and create time and space for discussions of future diplomacy and nuclear negotiations," he told the NYT.