September 15, 2023
Foreign Minister Hossain Amir-Abdollahian has said Iran is ready to resume negotiations with the US on the nuclear agreement, picking up where the text was left off in August of last year. A key hang-up was Iran’s demand that the US promise not to withdraw from the agreement ever again. But no president can bind what a successor does, so that demand was a non-starter. Abdollahian did not say If Iran was prepared to drop that demand.