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White House press secretary Jen Psaki shifted blame Wednesday for the "aggressive actions" being taken by Iran, claiming the nation is "rapidly accelerating" attributable to former President Trump's resolution to drag the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal.
Requested Wednesday by a reporter at a briefing how the Biden administration is working by way of discussions with Iran to reestablish the Iranian nuclear settlement, often known as the Joint Complete Plan of Motion (JCPOA), Psaki mentioned the talks are "ongoing."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks throughout a every day White House press briefing Jan. 12, 2022, in Washington.
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"What we're looking at, and what we'd like to remind the public of, is why we are at this point now," Psaki mentioned. "Most importantly, none of the things we're looking at now – Iran's increased capability and capacity, their aggressive actions that they have taken through proxy wars around the world – would be happening if the former president had not recklessly pulled out of the nuclear deal with no thought as to what might come next."
In 2018, Trump introduced he can be withdrawing the USA from the Iran nuclear deal, saying on the time that the settlement was "defective at its core."
Ebrahim Raisi, now Iran's president, holds a press convention at Shahid Beheshti convention corridor June 21, 2021, in Tehran, Iran.
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Psaki mentioned Trump's resolution left an "impact" and meant that Iran's nuclear program "was no longer in a box, no longer had the most robust inspection regime ever negotiated, no longer had the tight restrictions on nuclear activity."
At one level in the course of the "ongoing" negotiations, Psaki mentioned, the Biden administration turned a "bit frustrated by the lack of seriousness that negotiators came to the table" with. "Now we're back at the table again," she mentioned.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks in the course of the every day press briefing on the White House Dec. 14, 2021, in Washington.
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"Because of the last administration pulling out of the nuclear agreement, now Iran's program has been rapidly accelerating, Iran directly attacked our partners in the Gulf and its proxies began attacking U.S. troops again in Iraq," Psaki mentioned. "The United States had become totally isolated internationally."
Underneath the 2015 nuclear deal struck by the USA beneath the Obama administration, world powers and Iran, sanctions towards Tehran had been lifted in alternate for Iran’s cooperation in limiting its nuclear program.
"At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction, that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful, nuclear energy program," Trump mentioned in 2018. "Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie."
Elizabeth Zwirz contributed to this text.
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