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US issues new threats against Iran ahead of upcoming Vienna talks

The United States has issued new threats against Iran. Its Defense Secretary says Washington has other options up in its sleeves if the upcoming Vienna talks over the 2015 nuclear deal fail.

Austin, now visiting Bahrain on a regional tour, stops short of explaining what those options could be. He says lingering differences can be resolved quickly, IF, Iran comes back to the talks in Vienna with constructive positions. Iran has time and again blamed the US for the current situation surrounding the nuclear deal. Tehran says Washington was the party that threw the multilateral pact into disarray with its unilateral withdrawal in 2018. Tehran has stressed that new discussions, set to begin on November 29, will only focus on the removal of all US sanctions.

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Tim Anderson

Tim Anderson was a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney for 20 years. Now he is Director of the Center for Counter Hegemonic Studies. He researches and writes on development, rights and self-determination in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has published many dozens of chapters and articles in a range of academic books and journals. His latest books  are Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea (Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2015), The Dirty War on Syria (Global Research, Montreal, 2016) and AXIS OF RESISTANCE- Towards an Independent Middle East (Clarity Press, 2019).

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