PREVIEW: #IRAN: Excerpt from a conversation with collague Cliff May of FDD re the state of the Biden Administration ambitiion to reignite the JCPOA from 2015 desite the Iran launched surrogate attacks on Israel but Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Ketaib Hezbol
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
1965 North Yemen
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor, speaking to Cliff May, the founder and president of the Foundation for |
| 0:04.5 | the Defense of democracies, about the state of the JCPOA renegotiation by the Biden administration |
| 0:12.1 | after three years. |
| 0:13.6 | A large amounts of cash had been handed over from different sources, but what has been |
| 0:18.4 | accomplished. |
| 0:20.3 | Cliff summarizes not only the opinion of observers but of the IEA, the nuclear |
| 0:26.8 | watchdog at the United Nations, and going forward the continued negotiation or pending negotiation for the water down or the revised or the refreshed or the reawaken JCPOA, what is the purpose of it? |
| 0:42.2 | Where is it going? Given the ongoing war in the Middle East, |
| 0:46.0 | it is now Israel and Tehran staring at each other directly. |
| 0:51.0 | Here's Cliff May to explain the JCPOA ambition of the |
| 0:54.9 | Biden administration since its inauguration and what happens next. |
| 1:00.5 | Absolutely nothing. |
| 1:03.0 | What they're trying to do is get the Islamic Republic of Iran to agree to a weaker, watered-down version of the |
| 1:11.0 | JCPOA, which was President Obama's deal the joint comprehensive plan of |
| 1:15.9 | action it wasn't comprehensive it wasn't a plan of action it was at most delaying |
| 1:20.6 | of certain parts of their nuclear weapons program while other parts |
| 1:24.5 | including missile production and sophistication were ongoing |
| 1:29.2 | uh... and interestingly uh... Raphael Grocy as i said the director general of the IAEA was very clear about this. |
| 1:36.4 | He said, look, basically he said there's no point to such a deal. |
| 1:40.3 | It doesn't, would not accomplish anything, even if the Islamic Republic of Iran, even if |
| 1:46.0 | Supreme Leader Ali come in, he said I'll go along with it, which he hasn't, which he doesn't |
| 1:50.1 | want to do. So it's a it's a useless effort. The Trump administration did put |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

