Report: Biden Wants Partial Nuclear Deal with Iran; Obama 2.0

The possible deal, reported by Axios, replicates President Barack Obama’s formula from 2013, in which the U.S. offered partial sanctions relief to entice Iran to the negotiating table. Critics noted that Obama gave up most of America’s leverage in doing so, and the terms of the emerging deal favored Iran more and more over time.

In the end, the deal — never ratified by the Senate — gave Iran the ability to emerge as a nuclear power after about a decade.

President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, and began applying sanctions and military pressure on Iran. The regime resumed enriching uranium and has continued to do so despite two years of efforts by the Biden administration to revive the deal. It is now considered to be perhaps days away from a nuclear weapon.

Axios reported:

The new approach by the Biden administration shows just how concerned the U.S. is about recent advances in Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. has not ruled out diplomacy on reaching an agreement to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement but did take it off the agenda last year over Iran’s military assistance to Russia and Tehran’s crackdown on anti-government protests.