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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18095/iran-biden-nuclear-deal\nNo amount of appeasement and no deal is going to change the core pillars of the Iranian mullahs' revolutionary principles, which include anti-Americanism, antisemitism, supporting terror groups, and brutally repressing their own population. The theocratic establishment uses international and regional agreements, such as its election last April to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to advance its revolutionary ideals.\nThe Biden administration might begin to understand, nearly four decades after the establishment of the mullahs' regime, that, as Henry Kissinger remarked, \"The exercise of diplomacy without the threat of force is without effect.\"\nNo amount of appeasement and no deal is going to change the core pillars of the Iranian mullahs' revolutionary principles, which include anti-Americanism, antisemitism, supporting terror groups, and brutally repressing their own population. Pictured: A ballistic missile on display during a military parade in Tehran, on April 18, 2019. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)\nThe Biden administration's Iran policy appears to be quite simple: keep negotiating with the ruling mullahs and offering concessions to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and eliminate the Iranian regime's threat.\nThe nuclear deal reached in 2015, however, had already proved that it did not eliminate the Iranian regime's threats. After the agreement, access to the considerable funds freed up by the deal had the reverse effect: it allowed Tehran to pour ever greater sums into the coffers of groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis. Nations such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain were largely ignored by the Western powers, despite their clear concerns over the direct threat that enriching these groups presented.\nUS President Joe Biden previously suggested that Iran, in the aftermath of the 2015 nuclear deal, had ceased being a \"bad regional actor\", writing:\n\"... I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations.\"\nThis is an easy view for someone thousands of miles away from the Middle East, but for those living there, dealing with Hezbollah's weapons caches and Syrian militias wreaking death and devastation, Iran, through its proxy networks, has become more malign than ever.\nTehran seeks to sow instability in the region because it benefits from chaos in other countries. It was through instability in Lebanon, for instance, that Iran was able give birth to Hezbollah. It was in the midst of the conflict in Iraq that Iran formed powerful militia groups there. It was through the war in Syria that Iran armed and empowered additional proxies. It is through the crisis in Yemen that Tehran is able to strengthen its ties with the Houthis. The list goes on. Where there is instability, the ruling mullahs of Iran expand their influence.\nThe nuclear deal did not stop Iran from advancing its nuclear program. During the deal, in 2018, several reports, later proven to be accurate, warned that Iran was conducting secret nuclear activities. Israel's then Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, pointed out in his speech to the UN General Assembly in 2018 that Iran had a \"secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran's secret nuclear weapons program.\" At the same time, two non-partisan organizations based in Washington, DC -- the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) -- also released detailed reports about Iran's undeclared clandestine nuclear facilities.\nOn top of that, at home, the empowered regime of the mullahs escalated its human rights violations. Human Rights Watch reported that Iran's judiciary \"continued to execute individuals at a high rate\" – including the execution of women and children.\n\"Iranian courts, and particularly the revolutionary courts regularly fell short of providing fair trials and used confessions obtained under torture as evidence in court. Authorities routinely restrict detainees' access to legal counsel, particularly during the investigation period.... Scores of human rights defenders and political activists remain behind bars for their peaceful activism...authorities in the security apparatus and Iran's judiciary continued to target journalists, online media activists, and human rights defenders in an ongoing crackdown, in blatant disregard of international and domestic legal standards.\"\nIt would help if the Biden administration therefore realized that reverting to the policy of Obama administration, where the US believes that the nuclear deal is adequate to confront the Iranian regime, actually risks undermining peace and stability in the Middle East even further, as well as empowering the regime to suppress its population more unsparingly than ever.\nDr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US foreign policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu\nFollow Majid Rafizadeh on Twitter\nRelated Topics: Iran, Iranian Nuclear Program\nRecent Articles by Majid Rafizadeh\nThe Biden Administration's 'Diplomacy' with the Iranian Regime, 2022-01-18\nBiden Administration Must At Least Help Any Country Trying to Confront Iran's Mullahs, 2022-01-01\nBiden's Legacy: A Nuclear Iran, 2021-12-22\nBiden Administration Silent Against Iran's Mullahs' Terror Threat, 2021-12-18\nThe Iran Nuclear Deal: Biden Administration's Fatal Mistakes, 2021-12-11\nMartin • Jan 9, 2022 at 16:56\nThe Iran nuclear deal, (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) involves not only USA but China, France, Russia, UK, plus Germany, and the European Union (P5+1+EU).\nWhile Pres. Biden's eagerness to re-establish the deal is insane, please let's not forget that the other countries involved in the \"negotiations\" are seemingly equally eager to sign on with Pres. Biden's dangerous plan.\nIf the Parties involved were honest about why they seek to renew the deal they would re-name it the Joint Incomprehensible Plan of Action.\nshloime • Jan 9, 2022 at 11:34\nTo borrow a phrase from popular culture, \"where's the beef?\" Obama's precious \"Iran agreement\" was never submitted to congress to be ratified, or signed by the ayatollah. its secret addenda remain secret to this day.\nIn addition to not addressing Iran's ballistic missiles and its military adventures in neighbouring countries, not destroying Iran's plutonium reactor at Arak, and not curbing the mullahs' uranium enrichment capability, it also contained unknown assurances that committed the united states to preventing future attacks against the Iranian nuclear weapons program. the agreement itself was never made public.\nSo before being dragged back into the same quagmire, don't the American people deserve to see Obama's 2015 JCPOA, in all its glorious detail?\ncammo99 • Jan 9, 2022 at 07:55\nAll I can do is say I approve of the message, the question is does Biden hear anyone outside the closed circle of one party democrats? It is very clear that Biden who voted against bringing Vietnam refugees to the USA in 1975 using the WPR73 as a pretext then applied the same principles to Afghanistan it would seem President Biden used racist prejudice against Asians in 1975 and applied the same strictures on Afghanistan allies who are still in grave peril of their lives. Put simply I do not believe the Democrats ever have the same value for human life as the Christians and other God believers they despise even as Biden and Pelosi blasphemously like to claim God is telling them what to do is has given them their power to do what they believe is right and if God is not enough they have the Pope's blessing too?\nThis comes down to how you interpret their belief that by advocating the poor as directed by God they can not be criticized by god believers. They have literally industrialized poverty for their own supremacist Party beliefs. I heard a Minister this Sunday AM cite James as a means of criticizing the rich and advocating the poor, what segment I heard also got it wrong.\nMoses did not go to Pharaoh to get better living conditions for the Hebrew slaves, he first asked Pharaoh to release the Jews to go into the desert and have a festival for God. Pharaoh said no. And the fact is from Genesis to Revelations criticisms of oppression in regard to the poor almost in every instance is about empowering the poor and oppressed so they can worship God. Its in the Psalms, its why Jesus turned over the money changer tables that cheated people in their purchase of sacrifices for their sins.\nPelosi's idea of empowering the poor is so they can shoot dope have safe places to be to do it and create an unemployable slave class, that also includes the worse sort of immoral criminals. What is supposed to be a blessing Pelosi and Biden have turned into a curse. And they are doomed. Such people never achieve anything great except in scope of ruination and so it will be in their dealings with the Iranians.\nBull Herman cammo99 • Jan 12, 2022 at 01:28\nI appreciate your religious views on this subject. Thank you.\nJagdish N Singh • Jan 9, 2022 at 04:30\nOne hopes wisdom will prevail over the Biden administration to discard the fatal Iran policy Washington has more or less adhered to since the Jimmy Carter presidency and not re-enter the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal the Donald Trump administration had withdrawn from. Given its commitment to the Islamist ideology that seeks to establish its version of rule the world over, Tehran is sure to use the possible nuclear deal to move further towards acquiring nuclear weapon capability that would help it annihilate the entire modern civilization, the United States, the leader of the free world, in particular.\nNurit Greenger • Jan 9, 2022 at 01:17\nBiden became a \"president\" to make the world an unlivable place. Biden is the problem, the European are the Problem; Iran knows it and it is having the West dance around its little finger. We, the people, have \"leaders\" who are intelligence quotient (IQ) deficient totally unfit to lead even a pack of lambs.\nEliot Schickler • Jan 9, 2022 at 01:08\nMaking a deal with Iran is the worse thing we can do! The one thing we need to do in Iran is to implement regime change over there! It's time to send the Ayatollahs packing and place them in the dustbin of history! The Ayatollahs are cancerous that are harming the world and are responsible for the escalation of 99 % of the main conflicts in the world! If we overthrow these Ayatollahs, who belong in the Dark Ages and replace them with a modern government, then all the enemies of Peace will see their funding dry up and they will be vanquished!\nRob Porter Eliot Schickler • Jan 19, 2022 at 18:09\nEliot, in respect of Iran the actions of Biden, Blinken, Sherman and this whole pathetic crew, demonstrates just how morally destitute and devoid of wisdom they are. Anyone in possession of morals and sound judgement sees the evil of this regime and desires an end to it. This American administration is not simply stupid, it too is evil.\nEliot Schickler Rob Porter • Jan 20, 2022 at 08:57\nInteresting observation!\nTed • Jan 8, 2022 at 21:01\nPrediction: Biden will scoff derisively at this letter. He and Obama are one soul.\nNicholas John Papadopoulos • Jan 8, 2022 at 19:31\nI totally agree.You can not negotiate with those who have the anti-Christ spirit inside of them. The Iranian rulers are committed to the destruction of a democratic Israel, EU and the USA.\njanet Nicholas John Papadopoulos • Jan 11, 2022 at 18:50\nIf any country could create a living hell on earth, then Iran is it. Then groups like ISIS and Boko Haram fan out the rest of the evil men do and we can see how easily this once beautiful earth was destroyed. Oh yes, Biden and Obama are indeed attached at the hip.\nstevenl • Jan 8, 2022 at 19:12\nThe handling of Afghanistan an omen for the handling of Iran?\nIsn't that the hope of the US left?\nShould be a letter to his handlers.\njule • Jan 8, 2022 at 16:50\nBiden has extremely bad actors for information and the Democrat party has become more corrupt than the Republican. Too much money is involved.Too much biased propaganda & even from Congress.\nSteven • Jan 8, 2022 at 16:04\nTo not persist in re-entering the nuclear deal would indicate the former Obama/Biden administration was inept in entering the deal in the first place.\nThe Biden administration is largely an extension or third term of the former Obama/Biden administration.\nThe entire article underestimates the commitment and determination of the Biden administration to re-enter the nuclear deal with Iran. Entering this agreement is a core value of the Biden administration\nBull Herman • Jan 8, 2022 at 13:43\nProblem is Biden appreciates how Iranian Islamists run their country. He can't see through Iranian propaganda let alone his own party's nonsense. You are writing to a shill who lives above the law and outside reality.\nYou could write it to Israel but that would be preaching to the choir.\nBull Herman Bull Herman • Jan 8, 2022 at 18:38\nThere is a serious side to this.\nIf Biden does happen to get the Iranian Islamists to agree... will they sign this agreement or ignore it like last time?\nIt's not an agreement otherwise.\nFrankly, I feel US reps are happy to accommodate Iranian delays because the Islamist part of this administration like Kerry loves the Iranian style of Islam.\nI can't think of any other reason.\nmeron levitats • Jan 8, 2022 at 11:20\nThis article should be sent to every Congressman, Senator, Cabinet member, National Security Advisor, and the like and in a condensed op-ed format to every newspaper editor and TV news station in the country.\nRussell • Jan 8, 2022 at 06:28\nMy opinion after seeing the way that the Democrats have acted since the Biden Administration took over the USA is that Joe Biden will never change his attitude towards Iran. Why? I suggest that the Pres. Joe Biden/Democrat principles are very supportive of the Iranian mullahs' revolutionary principles, which include:\n1. Anti-Americanism, (USA open borders and a two-tier justice system, criminals released with no bail, US Government using the DOJ and FBI as a weapon against Americans).\n2. Antisemitism and supporting terror groups (Afghanistan, appeasing Iran, wasting time on this useless Iran deal, and weakening the military with vaccine mandates).\n3. Brutally repressing their own population, (Defunding police, causing high crime in Democrat-led states, supporting and justifying looting, encouraging mass Antifa and BLM violence, holding people in jail for mere trespassing on January 6th, whilst not prosecuting a police officer for shooting and killing a tiny unarmed woman, high inflation, job-destroying vaccine mandates, school lockdowns, ending energy independence, and destruction of the US economy.\nMartin Russell • Jan 9, 2022 at 17:12\nThe Biden Administration is controlled by Barack Hussein Obama. Thus the strong desire to re-instate the deal which was originally entered into by Obama. Furthermore, the fact that Pres. Trump, who is hated by Obama/Biden, scuttled the deal, is taken as an insult to Obama's \"diplomacy\" and must be re-instated at any cost... including the threat of triggering a nuclear war.\nJeff Page • Jan 8, 2022 at 06:00\nNothing will ever change in Iran as long as the current leadership maintains control. Even afterwards, it will be extremely difficult for any Muslim-dominated country to accept any other denomination as being on the same level as Islam. Biden and people such as he who capitulate rather than express their opposing views will be seen as weak, easily manipulated and a walkover to conservative Muslims around the world. Time to stop wasting time and time to stop sucking up to them!\nHamish MacDonald • Jan 8, 2022 at 05:37\nWell good luck with Biden.\nOnly an earthquake will wake up the Democrats.\nHarvey L Hamish MacDonald • Jan 8, 2022 at 17:04\nTrue, or heaven forbid a nuclear strike."