TEHRAN(Bazaar) – U.S. columnist Stephen Lendman says, says “I’m very skeptical about Biden returning to the JCPOA as it was agreed on by Obama when he was vice president.”
In an interview with the Bazaar, Lendman also says, “US policy wants Iran kept weaker than it needs to be against possible US/NATO/Israeli aggression.”
Following is the text of the interview:
Bazaar: Joe Biden, in an article published on CNN, presented a three-stage policy against Iran. Accordingly, he presented the three phases of nuclear talks, regional issues, the missile issue and human rights under one package. The important issue here is timing. That is, whether Biden considers the nuclear issue independent or links it to missile and regional issues. If such a connection is made, the probability of reaching an agreement with Iran is close to zero. On this basis, it is argued that he may seek to consider each issue separately and independently in possible negotiations with Iran. What is your assessment of Biden's policy toward Iran?
Lendman: I’m very skeptical about Biden returning to the JCPOA as it was agreed on by Obama when he was vice president.
I strongly suspect he’ll want it renegotiated to include unacceptable demands related to Iran’s legitimate ballistic missile and overall military capabilities.
US policy wants Iran kept weaker than it needs to be against possible US/NATO/Israeli aggression.
If unacceptable Biden demands are made as I expect, Iran no doubt will reject them.
What’s also important is that if Trump is defeated — what’s very possible but not sure because of election fraud in key swing state GOP lawyers are contesting and may be for the Supreme Court to decide — Biden is cognitively and physically in decline.
He’ll unlikely be able to perform the duties of his office so Harris and other Dems may carry them out behind the scenes.
Based on evidence I believe is credible, a Biden double — not Joe Biden — debated Trump, the same figure impersonating Biden on other public occasions.
It’s because Joe Biden can’t function properly in public and likely not in non-public dealings.
He also reportedly has early-stage Parkinson’s disease.
He’s physically and cognitively not the man he was long ago.
So others will function in his stead and make policy decisions if he succeeds Trump.
I expect little US change toward Iran whether Biden or Trump is president. The same goes for US foreign policy overall.
For decades, each new incoming US regime has been more dismal domestically and geopolitically than their predecessors — Trump worst of all so far.
I believe Biden/Harris will exceed the worst of his agenda if they succeed him.
I deplore Trump and reject his domestic and foreign policy agendas. Yet I fear Biden/Harris more, and I deplore the idea of them succeeding Trump by stealing the presidential election.
That’s precisely what’s happening.
That and other reasons are why I call the so-called Democrat party undemocratic Dems.
Bazaar: Biden has repeatedly spoken of returning to the JCPOA during his election campaigns. But there has been no talk of lifting sanctions on Iran. What is the reason for this, and will it lift nuclear sanctions in return for Iran's return from reducing its JCPOA commitments?
Lendman: Biden/Harris will keep existing ILLGAL US sanctions on Iran and other countries in place.
They’re what I call US war by other means, what Trump calls “maximum pressure.”
Sanctions almost never work. Yet the US imposes them to harm ordinary people in targeted countries, falsely believing they’ll turn them against their governments.
No matter how many times this policy failed, the US keeps repeating it.
Bazaar: The Democratic Party announced in a statement during the presidential election campaign that it would no longer pursue a policy of regime change in Iran. Is this policy still pursued when Biden came to power or was it just a propaganda issue?
Lendman: Most everything US politicians say cannot be believed.
US policy toward Iran since its 1979 has been regime change — by both right wings of its one-party state, what I call the war party, or the money party.
US policy goes further than that. Regime change is firm policy toward all nations the US doesn’t control, including China and Russia.
That and much more is what the scourge of imperial is all about.
Bazaar: In general, what changes will Biden's Middle East policy have compared to Trump?
Lendman: US foreign policy in the Middle East and virtually everywhere else will be much the same under either Trump or Biden.
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