Iran nuclear deal is "dead," Biden says in newly surfaced video - Axios

President Biden said connected the sidelines of a Nov. 4 predetermination rally that the 2015 atomic woody with Iran is “dead,” but stressed the U.S. won’t formally denote it, according to a caller video that surfaced connected societal media precocious Monday.

Why it matters: It's the strongest confirmation truthful acold that the Biden medication believes there's nary way guardant for the Iran deal, which leaves cardinal questions astir the aboriginal of Tehran's atomic program.

• In precocious October, U.S. envoy for Iran Rob Malley said that the medication is not going to "waste time" connected trying to revive the Iran atomic woody astatine this clip considering Tehran's crackdown connected protesters, Iranian support for Russia's warfare successful Ukraine, and Iran's positions connected its atomic program.

Driving the news: Biden made the remark successful a abbreviated speech with a pistillate who attended an predetermination rally successful Oceanside, California.

• The pistillate asked Biden to denote that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), arsenic the Iran woody is formally known, is dead.
• Biden responded that helium would not “for a batch of reasons."
• But past helium added: “It is dead, but we are not gonna denote it. Long story."
• The pistillate replied that the Iranian authorities doesn’t correspond the people. “I cognize they don’t correspond you. But they volition person a atomic limb that they'll represent," helium said.

What they're saying: "The JCPOA is not our absorption close now. It’s not connected the agenda," a White House National Security Council spokesperson told Axios.

• "We don’t spot a woody coming unneurotic anytime soon," the spokesperson said, pointing to Iran's crackdown connected protesters and enactment for Russia successful the warfare successful Ukraine. "Our absorption is connected applicable ways to face them successful these areas."