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Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy is dangerous and should end

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Seyed Hossein Mousavian

By destroying the deal, the Trump administration effectively dismantled the most comprehensive mechanism of inspection in the history of the NPT. The US has also presented a draft resolution to the Security Council to extend a UN arms embargo on Tehran. The real US strategy is to “snap back” all UN sanctions on Iran, with full knowledge that Russia and China would not agree to renew the arms embargo, which is a clear violation of the nuclear deal and UN Resolution 2231.

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https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trumps-iran-policy-dangerous-and-needs-end

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Sanctions make Iran’s coronavirus crisis more deadly

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Seyed Hossein Mousavian

The Trump administration, seemingly in denial about its own shambolic response to the crisis, tried to blame the pandemic’s high toll in Iran on the incompetence and corruption of the Iranian government. The Iranian leadership indeed made some mistakes in its handling of this public health emergency, such as initially underestimating the threat posed by the virus and failing to close the country’s borders in time. It is, however, impossible to claim that the Iranian government is solely responsible for the devastation the pandemic has caused in the country. 

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https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/5/8/sanctions-make-irans-coronavirus-crisis-more-deadly

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Iran and the US: A path back from the brink.

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Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Former US President George W Bush once warned that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War Three. Through the Iran nuclear deal, agreed between world powers and Iran, Obama laid a new foundation on nuclear disarmament, noting that Iran had agreed “to the most robust and intrusive inspections and transparency regime ever negotiated for any nuclear programme in history”.

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Can there be a deal between Iran and the US in the new year?

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More than a year after its implementation, it is now clear that the US’s maximum pressure policy against Iran is not working. Iran’s political, military and religious leadership does not appear to be buckling under US economic pressure. Read the article. Read the article here. 

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Why Iran and the U.S. are at an impasse and how to reduce Mideast tensions in spite of that?

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The ill-advised U.S. policy of maximum pressure revolves around a central misconception that it will put enough economic pressure on Iran to force it to accept Trump’s maximalist demands. It has already been more than a year since the United States has pulled out the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, regulating Iran’s nuclear activities, and none of the stated objectives of maximum pressure have been achieved. Trump’s policy and actions have led only to a political impasse. Article

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Three Steps Toward Resolving Iran’s Nuclear Crisis

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“It been more than two and a half years since Trump’s election, but none of the objectives of the ill-advised “maximum pressure” policy has been achieved. Iran’s economy did not collapse, and the country’s influence did not subside.”

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“Three Steps Toward Resolving Iran’s Nuclear Crisis”  July 30, 2019;  Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Seyed Hossein Mousavian.

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How Iran Sees Its Standoff With the United States

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Dr. Mousavian’s Article in Foreign Affairs.

And What Trump Should Do to Solve the Problem He Created

My old mother is very ill, and so I have spent the last couple of weeks with her in Iran. My stay here has afforded me the opportunity to closely follow both public and official opinion during a time of rising tensions between the United States and Iran.

“What will happen to the nuclear agreement?” ordinary people have asked me. “Why did the United States violate the deal, even though Iran remained faithful to it?”