Separate the Iran Deal From Regional Security Negotiations
Vali Nasr and Hossein Mousavian write for Foreign Affairs:
It does not help that Iran also deeply distrusts Washington’s motivations. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recently dismissed a U.S. demand tying its return to the JCPOA to future negotiations over regional issues, saying the United States is using the issue to drag its feet on rejoining the nuclear deal. Iran, he added, will not accept foreign meddling when it comes to its national security interests
Iran and the Taliban: Fast Friends or Fierce Foes?
Mousavian writes for the Responsible Statecraft:
“The U.S. failure to achieve its objectives and the Taliban’s re-emergence in Afghanistan is evident, but whether they represent a challenge or opportunity for Iran is still unclear.”
Dr. Mousavian’s recent article in “IDEAS POLITICAS” titled “Towards a New Regional Strategy in the Persian Gulf”
Por una nueva estrategia regional en el Golfo
Si quiere evitar los errores cometidos por Trump, Biden deberá acabar con la política de máxima presión sobre Irán y promover el acercamiento entre este y los países del Golfo.
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Dr. Mousavian’s Book ““A Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Approach to Nonproliferation” is quoted in the New York Times article.
| One face-saving way out for Iran would be to turn its uranium enrichment facilities into a multilateral consortium with an international staff, modeled after Urenco, which could supply nuclear fuel to power plants across the region — an idea floated by Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat who is now a nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University and co-author of “A Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Approach to Nonproliferation. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/opinion/sunday/iran-nuclear-deal.html |
Iran elections: Could a conservative president solve Tehran’s regional and nuclear issues?
The pressing questions now are: how will Iran’s relations with the Arab Gulf states evolve next? What will be the destiny of the nuclear deal, and how will regional policies change under the next president, who is likely to be from the principlist faction?
Dr. Mousavian’s article in the “Middle East Eye: “Iran-Israel tensions: Return to nuclear deal, or see region go up in flames”
But there is an alternative path forward: save the Iran deal. Under the agreement, Iran accepted the most comprehensive transparency measures and limits that a member state of the Nonproliferation Treaty has ever accepted. This model should be accepted by other countries pursuing nuclear-energy programmes. For the international community, therefore, preserving the Iran deal must be a vital first step towards strengthening the nonproliferation regime.
