US President Joe Biden said he would use force as a last resort in order to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon as he started his tour of the Middle East.
On Israeli channel, Channel 12 TV, Biden said in a pre-recorded interview that aired on Wednesday, that he would keep Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list even if that killed off the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
When asked about his statements from the past regarding using force against Iran to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons, Biden replied: “If that was the last resort, yes.”
Iran denies it seeks nuclear weapons, saying that its nuclear program is for solely peaceful purposes.
Tehran struck a deal with six major powers in 2015 under which it limited its nuclear program to make it harder to obtain a weapon in return for relief from economic sanctions.
Former President Donald Trump rescinded on the deal in 2018 and reimposed extremely harsh sanctions on Iran, prompting the Middle Eastern country to begin violating the agreement’s nuclear limits a year later.
The Biden administration’s attempts to revive the deal have so far failed. A senior US official told reporters that chances of its resurrection were lower after indirect talks between the United States and Iran in Doha two weeks ago.
Negotiators appeared close to a new deal in March, but talks broke down largely because of US refusal of Tehran’s demand that Washington removes the IRGC from the terrorism list, arguing this was outside the scope of reviving the pact.
The IRGC, a powerful political faction in Iran, controls a business empire as well as elite armed and intelligence forces that Washington accuses of a global terrorist campaign.
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