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The Iranian Foreign Ministry has rejected an EU offer for informal talks with the U.S. to salvage the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal. Iran insists on the U.S. lifting all unilateral sanctions first. Tehran added that recent actions by Washington have deterred Iran’s appetite for diplomacy. This is a nod to U.S. airstrikes on alleged Iranian-backed militias along the Syria-Iraq border. Farther south, Biden has pushed for an end to the Civil War in Yemen, showing a more assertive U.S. policy toward Iran’s archrival Saudi Arabia. Biden has been in the Oval Office for a month. Does his Middle East policy break from that of his predecessor?
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