On October 7, 2024, Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris boarded Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the United States, heading for New York.
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Vice President Kamala Harris Said in new interview with CBS show that she considers Iran to be America’s “biggest adversary”60 minutes of overtimeThe Democratic presidential candidate’s choice of Iran over Russia or China underscores the extent to which war in the Middle East has changed the priorities of U.S. foreign policy.
In an interview with “60 Minutes” reporter Bill Whitaker, Harris was asked which country she considered “our biggest adversary.”
“I think there’s an obvious idea, and that’s Iran,” Harris responded. “Iran has American blood on its hands. This attack on Israel involved 200 ballistic missiles.”
She added: “What we need to do to ensure that Iran can never become a nuclear power is one of my top priorities.”
Whitaker then asked: “If Iran were building a nuclear weapon, would you take military action?”
“I’m not going to talk about what-ifs right now,” the vice president said.
It is not surprising that Iran has become one of the United States’ main adversaries. For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been locked in an asymmetric Cold War on behalf of the United States.
But for Harris, the fact that concerns about Iran appeared to have eclipsed worries about China, Russia and North Korea, even if briefly, was noteworthy.
The hostile relationship between Iran and the United States is already a certainty. In the past year, as the military conflict intensified, the hostile relationship between Iran and the United States has further deteriorated. confrontation between Israel Iran has expanded its previous localized operations into regional operations, middle east war.
Last month, Iran Launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed hundreds, including Hezbollah’s longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah. The missiles were intercepted by U.S. and Israeli armed forces.
Global financial markets fall on worries about potential Israeli response Attack on Iranian oil facilitiesthis move by President Joe Biden discouraged at a recent press conference.
former president Donald Trump withdraw The United States withdrew from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal in 2018, which provided Iran with sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. Iran remains officially part of the deal but has not complied with it since Trump reinstated U.S. sanctions.
this Biden-Harris Administration Encourage negotiations to resume in 2022. defendant Tehran provided lethal weapons and training to Russian forces invading Ukraine.
In September, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi stated that Iran was ready to restart multilateral nuclear negotiations during the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
White House It is said This move shows that the United States is not ready to resume nuclear negotiations with Iran.
