6 | APRIL 22 • 2021 

analysis
The U.S.-Iran Talks at Vienna 

W

hile some may 
regard the cur-
rent multilateral 
talks in Vienna that include 
the Biden administration 
and Iran as a reboot of the 
2015 Joint 
Comprehensive 
Plan of Action 
(JCPOA), much 
has changed 
for the United 
States and its 
presence in the 
Middle East 
since the Trump adminis-
tration withdrew from the 
agreement in 2018. 
The geopolitical realities 
facing America require a prag-
matic approach that may elude 
the ideologically and politi-
cally charged but affirm that 

Washington’s primary moti-
vation lies beyond the accord 
itself, and as a way to reassert 
American foreign policy both 
regionally and globally.
There are three critical 
impetuses for the Biden 
administration’s reentry 

to talks with Iran, none of 
which suggest an Obama-
era redux. The first is to 
demonstrate to America’s 
European allies that the U.S. 
is returning to a multilateral 
mode of geopolitics. Great 
Britain, France and Germany 

— the so-called E3 European 
members of the P5+1 (U.N. 
Security Council members 
and Germany) Iran deal — 
felt that the U.S. had aban-
doned not only the JCPOA, 
but also NATO and other 
long-standing trans-Atlantic 

Saeed A. 
Khan

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