With Iran stonewalling nuclear talks, US and Israel contemplate alternatives to diplomacy

…WHY WERE SANCTIONS LIFTED? The group United Against Nuclear Iran is questioning why the Treasury Department has lifted sanctions against two Iranian missile producers, Mammut Industrial Group and its subsidiary Mammut Diesel, without explanation. “Reducing economic pressure on Tehran absent meaningful behavioral change would signal to the Iranian regime that it can extract concessions from the U.S. through its intransigence,” the group said in a press release. “Rather than undoing sanctions, the Biden administration should prepare to wage a full-scale diplomatic offensive in favor of extending the Iranian ballistic missile development restrictions contained in U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 — set to expire just 24 months from now.”