Biden Faces Intense Cross Currents In Iran Policy

New York Times: “Even if the administration succeeds in putting the nuclear deal back together, Mr. Biden will still face the challenge of finding a way to further rein in the Iranians — a step the country’s new president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi, said the day after his election that he would never agree to.”

“In that sense, the airstrikes only underscored how many conflicting currents Mr. Biden faces as he attempts to fashion a coherent Iran policy. He faces pressures in various directions from Congress, Israel and Arab allies, never mind Tehran’s incoming, hard-line government, led by Mr. Raisi, who was placed under sanctions in 2019 by the Treasury Department, which concluded that he ‘participated in a so-called “death commission” that ordered the extrajudicial executions of thousands of political prisoners’ more than 30 years ago.”

Politico: Biden declares Iran will never get a nuclear weapon “on my watch.”