The United States might rejoin the Iran nuclear deal if presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the race to the White House, a senior official in his campaign hinted this week in a talk with The Jerusalem Post.
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Speaking just days before the former vice president is set to get the official nod from the party to challenge President Donald Trump, his liaison to Jewish voters Aaron Keyak told the paper that a Biden administration would undo the steps taken in the wake of the unilateral withdrawal from the deal from 2015.
According to Keyak, Biden will try to curtail the Islamic republic's nuclear program by working with allies and by "re-engaging Iran in a diplomatic solution."
Although he did not specifically say the US would re-enter the nuclear framework as it is, Keyak noted that a would-be Biden administration would seek to follow the path the deal had charted so that Iran abides by it.
Keyak said "Trump tore up a deal with Iran that was working to prevent that country from obtaining nuclear weapons. He actually proved that in the short life of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [the official name of the deal] it achieved its goals. As president, Joe Biden will hold Iran accountable for its destabilizing activities throughout the region."
Keyak lamented by adding that Trump "went out of his way to actively infuriate our allies in Europe and throughout the world ... Trump looked at a deal that was working under president [Barack] Obama, and he couldn't stand it. So he tore it up. It's hard to drop the best way to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran."
Keyak stressed that Biden was not going to impose conditions in US aid to Israel if he were elected president, despite calls on the Left to do so.
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