Eli Lake, Columnist

Why Iran Negotiations Will Go Nowhere

The problem isn’t the details of the nuclear deal but the dishonesty of the regime.

April 23, 2021 at 12:05 AM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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Senator Marsha Blackburn has not devoted much of her time in office to Iran policy. But this week the Tennessee Republican offered some clarity on the issue when she introduced a bill aimed at preventing President Joe Biden from returning the U.S. to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

“It’s time for Biden to wake up and realize that the U.S. cannot negotiate an honest agreement with Iran because they are a fanatical, anti-American regime,” her statement reads. “No amount of negotiating or ‘indirect discussions’ can change that.”