President-Elect Joe Biden has long signaled he’ll seek US reentry into participation in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, brokered under the prior Obama administration. On Thursday Iran issued its unwavering position to the incoming Biden administration, saying there will be no renegotiations of the deal whatsoever . Biden has said the US will lift sanctions and return to the JCPOA should Iran return to conformity to its stipulations, namely caps on uranium enrichment. Quoting Iran’s foreign minister, The Times of Israel reports on Thursday : “It will never be renegotiated. Period,” Zarif tells a conference in Italy, speaking remotely. He says Iran won’t agree to any curbs on its missile program or backing of regional proxies unless Western countries stop their “malign behavior” in the Middle East. “As long as they’re not able to put up, they have to shut up,” Zarif says. Obama’s then Secretary of […]