The United States needs to make a decision to wrap up a deal to salvage Iran’s 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said amid fears that arduous talks in Vienna might collapse. Efforts to clinch a new deal were left in limbo after a last-minute demand by Russia forced the powers to pause talks for an undetermined time despite having a largely completed text.

The recent decision by the Biden administration to switch to abstention on the UNRWA vote marked a shift from the Trump administration, which had uniformly voted against such anti-Israel votes at the United Nations.Asaf Romirowsky, executive director for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, said he believes this is part of the Biden administration’s goal to undo many of the previous policies of the Trump administration without any thought to the ramifications of such moves.