US hostility toward Iran since Islamic Revolution remains hard-wired: Analyst

US hostility toward Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution remains hard-wired because Tehran refuses to subordinate its sovereign rights to Washington, according to American writer and political analyst Stephen Lendman.

Lendman said in a commentary to Press TV on Sunday that the landmark nuclear agreement is virtually dead “because of legitimate Iranian demands Biden regime hardliners refuse to accept.”

“Iran justifiably wants all illegally imposed US sanctions removed. It wants guarantees against re-imposing them. It wants Biden regime assurance that Washington won’t pull out of the deal again if returns to compliance,” he commented.

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“It wants assurance of binding US compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 2231 provisions — unanimously agreed to on July 14, 2015, adopted on October 18, 2015, implemented on January 16, 2016,” he added.

“Biden regime hardliners agreed to lift some sanctions, leaving others in place. It maintains the right to illegally impose new ones at its discretion. It unacceptably wants curbs imposed on Iran’s legitimate ballistic missile program. Along with other Iranian weapons, they’re solely for defense, not offense the way hegemon USA, NATO and Israel operate,” the analyst said.

“The Biden regime also wants the JCPOA used as a platform for ‘building a stronger and longer deal working with (US) partners,’” he explained.

“Their scheme is all about weakening Iran’s ability to defend itself against US or Israeli aggression if launched,” he noted.

“It wants legitimate Iranian support for Syria, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis halted or sharply curtailed. All its demands are in return for hollow US promises to be breached at its discretion. Its demands assure rejection, not acceptance,” he stressed.

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The analyst said these are the reasons “why multiple rounds of talks failed, further ones virtually sure to fare no better.”

“No matter how long they continue, both right wings of the US war party remain militantly hostile toward Iranian freedom from their control,” he reiterated.

Lendman opined that “Biden regime promises to return to JCPOA compliance were hollow when made. Iran knows what it’s up against.”

“US hostility toward Iran since its liberating 1979 revolution remains hard-wired with no prospect of softening as long as the Islamic Republic refuses to subordinate its sovereign rights to a higher power in Washington,” he stated.

Concluding his remarks, Lendman said, “On Friday, unbending Biden regime hostility and duplicity toward Iran was on display for everyone paying attention to see.”

“It’s Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed new illegal sanctions on two senior Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members and two Iranian firms allegedly linked to the IRGC.”

Iran said on Friday the US Treasury Department’s latest move to impose the latest round of sanctions on Iranian natural and legal persons contradicts Washington’s claim of seeking to return to the nuclear deal of 2015 and proves the White House is by no means reliable.

“The imposition of new sanctions exposes the quite contradictory behavior of the White House,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said.

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He added that an administration that speaks about its intention to return to the JCPOA – the nuclear deal officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – and continues the same policy of former President Donald Trump “is sending the message that is not trustworthy at all.”

The Iranian official noted that different US administrations have proved they have no discerning eye for realities in Iran.

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