Iran agrees to renewed inspections as nuclear talks stall - Axios

Amir-Abdollahian told Iranian media on Wednesday he is optimistic that progress can be made during this round of talks if the U.S. and E3 act realistically…
https://www.axios.com/iran-inspections-karaj-centrifuge-iaea-cefba549-7128-4e74-89a5-cded8b615da4.html

False START (Pod Save the World podcast)

China tries to crush dissent in Hong Kong. Tommy and Ben discuss what the White House, Congress and the Biden campaign can do to stop them. Failed diplomacy with North Korea and why the US is walking away from bipartisan arms control agreements. Facebook leadership ignored evidence that the platform was polarizing users and driving them to extremism, the US bans travel from Brazil, scandal erupts in the UK, and Iran and Venezuela increase cooperation. Then Ben talks to Aidan Eyakuze, a Tanzanian activist, about the Tanzanian government's failure to take coronavirus seriously.
Interview:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/9513168/false-start

Iran announces it is suspending all commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal - The Washington Post

The body of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was flown to the Iranian city of Ahvaz following a funeral procession in Iraq.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/body-of-commander-slain-by-us-strike-arrives-in-iran-to-crowds-of-mourners/2020/01/05/4ca3281a-2f17-11ea-bffe-020c88b3f120_story.html

Never forget how different matters would be if Trump hadn't smashed the Iran nuclear accord

As events unfold over the next few days and weeks, and the world awaits the inevitable but unpredictable Iranian response to the assassination of Gen. Qassim Soleimani, we should remember every step of the way that the situation would be very different if Donald Trump had not wrecked the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/1/3/1909231/-Never-forget-how-different-matters-would-be-if-Trump-hadn-t-smashed-the-Iran-nuclear-accord

U.S. negotiator on Iran nuclear deal says withdrawing from it made things worse

A year after the Trump administration withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Iran itself warned that it will stop complying with the agreement unless it receives promised economic benefits. Judy Woodruff talks to Ambassador Wendy Sherman, who served as lead U.S. negotiator for the nuclear agreement with Iran during the Obama administration, about the impact of recent U.S. policy toward Iran....
Interview:
https://youtu.be/_mvT-rpG4OE

EU Offers Iran $20 Million to Counter U.S. Sanctions, Despite Trump Threats - Newsweek

The aid package, agreed to on Thursday, will support the public and private sector in a bid to save a plan known as the Iran Nuclear Deal. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/eu-offers-iran-20-million-counter-us-sanctions-despite-trump-threats-1087327

Iran Threatens Donald Trump With 'Mother of All Wars' If Hostile U.S. Policies Don't End - Newsweek

"Don't play with fire, or you will regret." ....
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-threatens-donald-trump-mother-all-wars-if-hostile-us-policies-dont-end-1036334

Trump makes unfounded claim that Obama gave citizenship to 2,500 Iranians - the guardian

Donald Trump has tweeted an unsubstantiated claim from an hardline Iranian cleric and circulated by a news agency linked to the country's Revolutionary Guard, that thousands of Iranians were granted US citizenship as part of the 2015 nuclear deal. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/03/trump-tweet-iran-obama-citizenship

Trump aides hired Israeli private intelligence firm to dig up dirt on Obama officials: report - The Hill

Aides to President Trump reportedly hired an Israeli private intelligence firm to dig up compromising information on two of former President Obama's foreign policy officials in an attempt to discredit the Iran nuclear agreement, according to reports obtained by UK newspaper The Observer and published in The Guardian.....
http://thehill.com/policy/international/386393-trump-aides-hired-israeli-private-intelligence-firm-to-dig-up-dirt-on