So declared U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier this month, and so it is. Since June, the Islamic Republic of Iran has refused to return to the bargaining table for negotiations on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Instead, Tehran has steadily advanced its nuclear activities, deliberately stalling talks in order to accumulate leverage for the extraction of further concessions from Washington. If Iran fails to act soon, Blinken warned, it would lose the opportunity to rejoin the agreement, thereby denying the country billions of dollars in sanctions relief.
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