Saudi Arabia, Gulf states must be consulted by US for entering JCPOA: Foreign Minister

President-elect Joe Biden must consult Gulf nations if United States decides to re-enter nuclear accord with Iran, Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat asserted on December 6, warning, that dialogue was ‘only path for a sustainable agreement’. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud insisted that Biden must involve Iran's US-allied Arab neighbours in process of rejoining US Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), indirectly resonating concerns about Iran backed Houthis’ militarily aggression targeted at Yemen. Biden h stated that his incoming government can hold potential negotiations with Iran to reinstate nuclear deal scrapped by Trump ministration to pressurize Iran into giving up nukes stockpile by slapping sanctions. 

Prince Faisal bin Farhan told reporters that Saudi Arabia wanted to be fully consulted, on sidelines of security conference in Bahrain’s Manama on Saturday. Furr, in an interview with CNBC, Al-Saud said that Saudi Arabia seeks to partner with US ministration in new agreement, for which, Trump's Iran policies h laid groundwork. Gulf involvement will t only monitor Iran's nuclear activity but also “regional malign activity,” Al-Saud told Hley Gamble, in a televised interview, ding, that new deal can be dubbed JCPOA++.

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'Limit' Iran's ballistic missile programs

Sitting US President Donald Trump withdrew from 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2018, citing, that it was "worst deal in history.” Al-Saud said that new deal can be entered with more conditions that can dress Iran’s arming of Houthis militias in Yemen, and or armed groups in Iraq, Syria, or Leban. new agreement must also limit Iran's ballistic missile programs and or arms programs, Saudi’s Foreign minister alleged. 

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani h earlier said in a press conference that Iran hopes US would return to rmalizing bilateral relations to pre-Trump era and return to negotiations with new president in office. Rouhani condemned outgoing president, Donald Trump on his foreign policy and said that he was looking forward to improving ties with US President-elect Joe Biden. Iranian leer asserted that new US President must “clearly condemn” Trump's “terrorist and anti-humanitarian policies”, ding, that his ministration played defective politics for four years. 

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