US ready to make ‘tough decisions’ to revive Iran nuclear deal, official says
Washington could remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from its terror blacklist, a State Department official told The Times of Israel on Saturday that the US was ready to make “difficult decisions” in order to revive the nuclear deal with Iran.
“We are not negotiating in public and are not going to respond to specific claims about what sanctions we would be prepared to lift as part of a mutual return to full implementation of the JCPOA,” the State Department official said, using the official acronym for the nuclear deal.
But, he said, “We are prepared to make difficult decisions to return Iran’s nuclear program to JCPOA limits. An unrestricted Iranian nuclear program has led to an escalating nuclear crisis and to greatly increased threats to US citizens, interests, and partners in the region.”
His comments came after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, in an unusually detailed and emotive statement, urged the US not to delist the IRGC as a terror organization on Friday.
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