Biden: 'Hard to tell' how scientist’s killing would impact Iran negotiations
The recent assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh could complicate Biden's pledge to rejoin the nuclear agreement.
President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to reenter the landmark Iranian nuclear deal if Tehran comes back into full compliance, says it’s “hard to tell” how the recent assassination of the country’s chief nuclear scientist would impact those negotiations.
Iran has vowed to retaliate for the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whose car was fired on in broad daylight just outside of the capital Nov. 27. Iran says Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency carried out the assassination in an effort to sabotage the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, and unnamed American officials have confirmed as much.
“The bottom line is that we can’t allow Iran to get nuclear weapons,” Biden told CNN on Thursday.
Biden added that President Donald Trump, who unilaterally withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal in 2018, failed to replace it with a tougher pact.
