Biden embraces Trump accords, but struggles with his withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal amid growing threat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : When asked later about the use of force, he added, "by saying other options, I think everybody understands here, in Israel, in the Emirates, and in Tehran what is it that we mean."
55% : I'm begging Iran to allow him to spend whatever time he has left with his family," Babak Namazi told reporters last week in an emotional appeal.
53% : He once again declined to put a timetable on it, but in perhaps his strongest language yet, said the U.S. and its partners are looking at "every option to deal with the challenge posed by Iran.
53% : Hours earlier, his special envoy for Iran, Rob Malley, said the U.S. must "prepare" for "a world in which Iran doesn't have constraints on its nuclear program" -- a world without a nuclear deal.
53% : But in the meantime, the U.S. is urging immediate action on another front -- the release of American citizens detained by Iran.
52% : Jared Genser, a lawyer for the Namazis, filed an urgent appeal with the United Nations last week to call for Baquer Namazi's immediate release so he can have a lifesaving surgery on a major blockage in his right carotid artery.
51% : Other U.S. allies have joined in recent weeks in urging Tehran to resume those talks.
48% : He urged less patience with waiting for Iran to resume nuclear talks.
48% : Enrique Mora, the European Union's second highest-ranking diplomat who has coordinated those talks, said Wednesday he was traveling to Iran to "raise the urgency to resume #JCPOA negotiations in Vienna.
46% : To that end, Malley is departing for United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia on Friday to discuss Iran, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Wednesday.
46% : Iran limits UN nuclear inspections while inching closer to talks with US, others
45% : US, Iran hold 1st indirect talks in bid to save nuclear deal
44% : We continue to believe diplomacy is the most effective way to do that, but it takes two to engage in diplomacy, and we have not seen from Iran a willingness to do that at this point."
44% : Every day that passes, every delay in negotiations, brings Iran closer to a nuclear bomb.
44% : The French Foreign Ministry said Wednesday the situation had reached a "crisis and at a critical moment for the future of the nuclear agreement," blaming Iran for "refusing to negotiate" and creating "facts on the ground that further complicate the return to the JCPOA," an acronym for the nuclear deal's formal name.
43% : Those indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran have been on hiatus since June, with Iran's new government saying it must get its team in position first.
40% : The United States is committed to securing Siamak and Baquer's freedom as soon as possible, as well as that of the other U.S. citizens wrongfully detained in Iran."
39% : Blinken again warned time is running out for salvaging the Iran nuclear deal as Iran continues to expand its nuclear program, with more enriched uranium, enriched at higher levels, using more and more advanced centrifuges.
38% : US, Iran recommit to indirect talks after sabotage attack on nuclear site
37% : Iran is clearly dragging their heels, trying to cheat the world to continue to enrich uranium, to develop their ballistic missile program," Lapid said, adding that Israel had not just a "right," but a "responsibility" to stop Iran from acquiring the bomb.
34% : "Iran is becoming a nuclear threshold country.
22% : But while Blinken said all three of them -- along with European partners -- agree that Iran must not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon, Lapid's language was even more stark.
21% : But even as Biden's top diplomat warned more starkly than ever about the threat from Iran and the need to salvage the nuclear deal Wednesday, there was some consistency: Secretary of State Antony Blinken embraced the set of key Trump-era deals known as the Abraham Accords.
15% : There have been major differences between the administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden on foreign policy -- not least over the Iran nuclear deal, with Biden officials blaming Trump's withdrawal for bringing Iran closer to a nuclear weapon today than before.
12% : Both Blinken and Sullivan met Wednesday with Babak Namazi, whose brother Siamak and father Baquer Namazi have been detained by Iran for six years -- to the day -- and 5 1/2 years, respectively.

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