Summary:
- the US has been involved in 80% of all the global conflicts and wars since WWII.
- the U.S. carried out at least 81 interventions in foreign elections during the period 1946–2000.
- the U.S. engaged in 70 attempts at regime change during the Cold War.
- A total of 23 countries are under U.S. sanctions, the US had sanctions on about 10000 individuals, companies, and sectors worldwide that US policymakers.
- In short, the US regional strategy for the Persian Gulf and Middle East
has failed and China is winning the region because Beijing has focused
on technology, trade, cooperation, and investment and not destroying
its resources by engaging in wars, regime change attempts, or sanction
policy in the Middle East.
- The US should reconsider its love affair with sanctions, wars, regime changes, and interferences in other countries because they are actively undermining U.S. interests. The Middle East will never be secure or stable without achieving a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian crisis.
- In the absence of US-Iran talks and the failure to revive the nuclear deal, the possibility of regional escalation is greater than it has been in years
- Only if the US pressures Israel to call a ceasefire, helps to find a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian crisis, and then restores the Iran nuclear deal can disaster be averted.
- The leaders of the US and Iran need to find the courage to engage in a broad dialogue to achieve a comprehensive deal, including reviving the temporary agreement and the JCPOA and resolving all other disputed issues.
- If this is unrealistic, the eight countries around the Persian Gulf – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain – need to strike a grand regional deal on a new security and cooperation structure in the Gulf that includes a regional nuclear deal and a region free from nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction.
The US Needs to:
- Focus on economic, investment, and technological cooperation rather
than sanctioning and weaponizing.
2. End dangerous and counterproductive policies of war, interference
and regime change.
3. Establish healthy and friendly relations with all countries rather than
creating alliances with some countries against other countries.
4. Support the creation of a new regional security and cooperation system
in the Persian Gulf and hand over the responsibilities to the regional
countries to maintain peace and stability rather than trying to
achieve it with tens of military bases and trillions of dollars.
5. Promote civilian diplomacy to strengthen citizen-to-citizen relations
such as tourism, athletic, academic, cultural, and social relations
based on respecting each other’s religions and cultures rather than
imposing Western cultures.
7. Last but not least, launch a comprehensive dialogue between Iran
and the US to end 40 years of animosity.
