Iran Finalizes Historic Nuclear Deal, Saudia and Israel Outraged

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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After five days of talks in Geneva, Iran and the six world powers struck a deal yesterday. According to the deal the Islamic Republic of Iran is to curb its nuclear program in exchange of seven billion dollars in relief from sanctions. By restraining its nuclear powers, Iran was able to get sanctions eased on auto parts, oil, precious metals and gold.

The U.S. President released a statement soon after the agreement and announced that since the start of his presidency, he has tried to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear powers and focused on resolving issues peacefully. He admitted that though Iran did not stop enrichment of uranium, the enrichment program has been halted to certain levels and new inspections have been added which will assure that Iran is keeping its commitments. This first step, he says, will help create time over the next six months to make some more negotiations to address other comprehensive concerns about the Iranian program.

The agreement is reversible if Iran does not halt work on its plutonium reactor or keeps using next-generation centrifuges to enrich uranium. ‘On our side, the United States and our friends and allies have agreed to provide Iran with modest relief, while continuing to apply our toughest sanctions.  We will refrain from imposing new sanctions, and we will allow the Iranian government access to a portion of the revenue that they have been denied through sanctions.’ said President Obama,  ‘But the broader architecture of sanctions will remain in place and we will continue to enforce them vigorously.  And if Iran does not fully meet its commitments during this six-month phase, we will turn off the relief and ratchet up the pressure.’

After the closure of the deal, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, openly expressed his criticism. ‘What was concluded in Geneva last night is not a historic agreement, it’s a historic mistake,’ told the Israeli Prime Minister to reporters on Sunday,  ‘It’s not made the world a safer place. Like the agreement with North Korea in 2005, this agreement has made the world a much more dangerous place.’  U.S.  Secretary John Kerry said that Iran is less of a threat to Israel now but Netanyahu disagreed saying without continued pressure Iran would not stop from working towards its nuclear program. The U.S. President called Netanyahu to assure him that the United States and Israel share a common goal to make sure that Iran never becomes a nuclear power.

Whereas on the other hand, Saudi ambassador to London, Nawaf Obaid said that Washington had kept Saudia Arabia in the dark and now it will follow its own foreign policy. He said that being a close ally to the United States, they were not briefed about it. ‘We were lied to, things were hidden from us,’ he said. ‘The problem is not with the deal struck in Geneva but how it was done.’ He assured that Saudia Arabia will continue to resist the Iranian involvement in the civil war in Syria.

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