As Russia’s assault on Ukraine grinds on and fears over the deployment of chemical or nuclear weapons grows, Iran nuclear talks are picking up speed down in Vienna. The aim of these negotiations, ostensibly, is to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA), more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, which the US withdrew from under President Donald Trump in 2018, though negotiations appear to be lubricated by Iranian oil. With Russian oil and gas now under sanction, though still flowing, Western states are desperate to feed their fossil fuel addiction. TRNN contributor David Kattenburg speaks with CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin and Executive Director of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Elena Sokova about the complicated geopolitical pressures the Russian war in Ukraine and US domestic politics are putting on discussions regarding the Iran nuclear deal and a nuclear-free Middle East.
Medea Benjamin is co-founder of CODEPINK, a women-led grassroots organization working to end US wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect US tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs. Her most recent book is entitled Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Elena Sokova has resumed the role of Executive Director of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. She was the first Executive Director of the VCDNP in 2011-2015 and afterwards served as Deputy Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She writes and lectures widely on nuclear disarmament issues.
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/how-oil-and-the-war-in-ukraine-are-shaping-negotiations-over-the-iran-nuclear-deal
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first talk about how israhell has nuclear bombs, then we can talk about iran
This was real thank you
Eva is really no friend of lran. Dhe is a real lsrael ally .. She should stay away from these talks
America is preparing Iran to be her new Israel in the region
Elena K. ( 'no Israel named, no pack drill ) Sokova ; there is guilt on people like her, for their deliberate omission and evasion of the 'Israeli exceptionalism' and their condoning hypocrites.
I’ve heard enough. Unsub
IF IRANIANS HAVE SENSE THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT THE SO CALLED NUCLEAR DEAL IS INTENDED TO FOOL THEM INTO BEING SLAVES OF THE WEST.
Your discussion is so empty since people in the only country that used nuclear weapons is judging a country to maintain sovereignty, not even acknowledging that weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological and nuclear) are against the law in Iran.
Who does this A-Hole Kattenburg think he is, starting this report by tearing down Russia ? Why doesn't he start with the War Crimes of America first, going back to the Germ Bombs that it dropped on N Korea in the early 50's ??? I'm surprised how patient Putin was for so long while NATO, and NATO armaments crawled closer the Russian border after he warned them for years to back off. I don't need to waste my time on this video any longer. I know an American Establishment Stooge when I see one.
Unfortunately it's making the case for nukes.
Where is tyler perry.
The U.S., Britain, and Israel have been destabilizing the world for decades! Free Julian Assange and Leonard Peltier!
Israel wants Iran on its knees and the U.S. never likes anybody who can stand up to them. Considering the damages that the joint terror state of USrael have inflicted on Iran, it's a miracle that Iran still holds its position against having nuclear weapons.
smart people dont believe in commercial news. If israel allowed to have nukes then Iran or other countries should have it too. If nukes not welcome by world standards, then no country should have nukes.
Without proof the writer mentioned Russian using chemical weapon. Clearly a western media.
How the war in Ukraine fits perfectly in the global agenda. That s because the globalists create war after war and crisis after crisis.
Putin and Biden and many more leaders all work for these globalist elites. Nothing happens by change.
The root problem next to the fraudulent ponzi of a financial system, and BigMilitary terrorism for profit, is that all the systems are designed to favour sh!t-headedness, and they are effectively in cahoots, a common enemy of all mankind
clean that vent
Arent Russia and Israel are technically allies or at least very good friends at least as much as Russia never criticizes Israel!
Inhibiting Iran's ability to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes could have an ulterior motive of hamstringing their efforts to explore a theoretical possibility that Western powers are well aware of and are doing what they can to be the first to develop.