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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