{"id":101238,"date":"2023-02-04T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=101238"},"modified":"2023-02-04T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T07:33:04","slug":"17-00-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=101238","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Time for a Plan B\u2019: War Crimes Accusation May Indicate Biden Admin Iran Policy Shift, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018It\u2019s Time for a Plan B\u2019: War Crimes Accusation May Indicate Biden Admin Iran Policy Shift, Experts Say<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Andrew Bernard<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks to reporters during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday told reporters that Iran may be \u201ccontributing to widespread war crimes\u201d in Ukraine, a shift in rhetoric which experts say could signal an attempt by the Biden administration to hold the regime accountable for how Russia uses Iran\u2019s weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

The State Department has said that Iran has become Russia\u2019s most important supplier of security assistance, including the provision of drones and other weapons that Russia has used in indiscriminate attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Rome, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told The Algemeiner<\/i> that this is the first time the Biden administration had explicitly accused Iran of complicity in war crimes in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is mainly a sharpening of US rhetoric aimed at deterring Tehran,\u201d Rome said. \u201cIt could also potentially be a trial balloon for Iran\u2019s inclusion in future war-crimes related investigations, such as the one that the European Commission has proposed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In November, the European Commission presented options<\/a> to EU member states on holding Russia to account for war crimes in Ukraine, including a special independent international tribunal. Neither Russia nor Iran have ratified the Rome Statute \u2014 the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) \u2014 ruling out an ICC trial<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s clear that Iran is contributing to Russian war crimes in Ukraine,\u201d Orde Kittrie, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former State Department attorney, told The Algemeiner<\/em>. \u201cIran transferred these lethal drones to Russia many months into Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. It was clear to all, based on what Russia was already doing with its own missiles, that Russia would use these drones in egregious violation of the law of armed conflict, by deliberately or indiscriminately using the drones to attack civilian persons and objects. Yet the Iranian regime transferred these lethal drones to Russia anyway, and Russia indeed used them to commit war crimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kittrie added that he hopes Sullivan\u2019s comments indicate a new posture towards Iran by the Biden administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBiden recently admitted that negotiations to stop Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program are \u2018dead\u2019 and called for a \u2018free Iran.\u2019  It\u2019s time for a Plan B: a coordinated new US strategy to support the Iranian people\u2019s goal of establishing a government that abandons the quest for nuclear weapons and is neither internally repressive nor regionally aggressive,\u201d Kittrie said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In December, previously unreleased video<\/a> showed President Biden saying that negotiations to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal were \u201cdead\u201d but that \u201cwe\u2019re not gonna announce it.\u201d White House and State Department officials have insisted for months that the negotiations are no longer on the administration\u2019s agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abdolrasool-Farzam Divsallar, a non-resident scholar affiliated with the Middle East Institute, said that while it was too early to mark a shift in Biden administration policy, Sullivan\u2019s words could make Iran think twice before transferring deadlier arms to Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more a US strategy to raise the cost for Iran and prevent further future arms deliveries that may include more lethal weapons, such as missiles,\u201d Divsallar said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Follow Algemeiner Washington Correspondent Andrew Bernard<\/strong> on Twitter @AndrewJBernie<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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