WASHINGTON (HRNW) – Britain s spy chief voiced doubt Thursday that a landmark 2015 nuclear accord with Iran can be revived, saying Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remained opposed despite marathon diplomacy with the United States.
“If we can get a deal it s probably the best means still available to constrain the Iranian nuclear program. I m not convinced we re going to get there,” MI6 chief Richard Moore told the Aspen Security Forum.
“I don t think the supreme leader of Iran wants to cut a deal. The Iranians won t want to end the talks either so they could run on for a bit,” Moore said in a live interview in the US state of Colorado, in what was billed as his first public speaking appearance abroad.
President Joe Biden has backed reviving the 2015 agreement which was negotiated under former US leader Barack Obama and trashed three years later by Donald Trump.
But indirect talks brokered by the European Union in Vienna have dragged on, in part over the US rejection of Iranian demands to reverse Trump s blacklisting of the powerful Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.
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