However, with Democrats set to gain control of US foreign policy in January and with Burns’s confirmation to the post in the offing, hopes are up that the historic Iran nuclear deal could be salvaged by the incoming Biden administration.
However, during his presidential campaign for the 2016 elections, Trump criticised the deal for being too lenient on Iran and the US unilaterally withdrew from it in May 2018. At the time this nuclear deal was signed, Obama was the president and president-elect Joe Biden was the vice president.In an interview Burns gave to the Foreign Service Journal in 2019, he said it was a “historic mistake” to pull out of the JCPOA with Iran. The deal was signed between Iran and the P5 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council–the US, UK, France, China and Russia) plus Germany and the European Union in Vienna in July 2015.Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions imposed by the US, UN and the EU. (Reuters) Significantly, Burns led the delegation that held secret talks with Iran about the nuclear deal, which culminated in 2015 and is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns (2nd L) talks with Vice Foreign Minister of South Korea Kim Kyou-hyun during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul January 21, 2014.Burns has served five US presidents (both Democrats and Republicans) in his more than 30-year long diplomatic career.
At present, Burns is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international affairs think tank and has previously served as the US deputy secretary of state.
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