MADRID Dec. 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has warned President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team about the risk of a “weakened Iran” acquiring a nuclear weapon after the fall of the Syrian regime. of Bashar al Assad and Israel’s attacks against pro-Iranian militias, such as the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) or the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah.
“This is a real risk that we are trying to be aware of at the moment. It is a risk that I am personally informing the incoming team about. (…) It is something that is a consequence, not of Iranian strength, but of Iranian weakness. And it’s the kind of thing that, in a dynamic and challenging Middle East, American statecraft will have to take into account,” he said in an interview with the US television network .
As Sullivan denounced, “there are voices in Iran that say publicly” that “perhaps” they have to “review” their nuclear doctrine. Thus, he considers that Trump has “a genuine opportunity, given his weakened state, to work with the Europeans, Arabs and others to achieve a nuclear agreement that returns Iran’s nuclear program to its place.”
“That would be quite interesting because it was Trump who withdrew from the last nuclear deal. But maybe he can change his mind this time, with the situation that Iran is in, and actually achieve a nuclear deal that would curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions to long term,” he stressed. “Iran is weak now, much weaker than it has been in decades, but that could generate a kind of defensive mentality,” he added.
Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian noted in mid-November that Tehran “has not attempted and will not attempt” to develop nuclear weapons and was open to relaunching discussions with the IAEA to “clarify” the “ambiguities” surrounding its nuclear program. before remembering that “it was the United States that unilaterally withdrew” from the historic 2015 agreement, after which Washington imposed a battery of sanctions against the country.
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