White House Claims That Talks With Iran Have Reached an “URGENT POINT”

The White House says that if Iran keeps accelerating its nuclear program, it will soon be impossible to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. The eighth round of talks to revive the deal resumed in Vienna Tuesday and a day later, in defiance of Western demands to halt its ballistic missile work, Tehran unveiled a new domestically-made missile with a range of 1,450 kilometers—capable of hitting the U.S. and Israeli military bases in the region.

At a White House press briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Jen Psaki said talks with Iran have reached an “urgent point.” “[A deal] is in sight, but if it is not reached in the coming weeks, Iran’s ongoing nuclear advancements will make it impossible to return to the JCPOA,” Psaki said, using the acronym for the official name of the nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Psaki also pointed to comments she made …