US Will Not Offer Incentives to Get Iran Back to Negotiating Table on Nuclear Deal

U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks ahead of an address by Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the release of the "2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," at the State Department in Washington on March 30, 2021. Mandel Ngan/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. State Department reiterated on April 7 that the Biden administration won’t offer unilateral incentives to get Iran back to the negotiating table on the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal—which former President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018.

“We are not and will not offer any unilateral gestures or incentives to sweeten any sort of deal or to induce Iran to—back to the negotiating table or to a better position at that negotiating table,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on April 7.