INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Friday, where he met leaders of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, the Egyptian president and the Iraqi prime minister.Following is the
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as it is formally known
After a year's delay, Iran began to end its compliance with the deal.This exacerbated tensions between Israel and Iran, resulting in
began indirect negotiations on a return to "compliance for compliance"
would not again leave the nuclear deal; and that the U.S
Doha but apparently failed to achieve a breakthrough in their efforts to revive the 2015 deal
urgency to bring back on track a key deal for non-proliferation and regional stability".Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri
Iran is that the Biden administration guarantees that the U.S
would not withdraw from the JCPOA again
The Biden administration and the other world powers could agree that, if the U.S
withdraws again, Iran would have the right to leave the JCPOA.Further, if Iran remained committed to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and
the high-level transparency provided by the additional protocol to the NPT safeguards agreement, world powers would not refer Iran's action
to the UN Security Council as a threat to international peace.Without a deal, regional confrontations could follow from Syria to the Persian
Gulf region, with implications for world energy markets
Even if the nuclear agreement was revived, however, there would be no guarantee of its sustainability unless complementary initiatives were
communications between the two most powerful actors in the region: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Five rounds of talks have already taken place in Baghdad and there is reason to hope that the next round might result in some tangible
Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, which threaten to spread to the disruption of oil and gas transport out of the Persian Gulf.The UN
foreign ministers of the states around the Persian Gulf
This could help stabilize the status of the region as free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.A second focus should be
on reducing tensions between Iran and the United States
In addition to the revival of the JCPOA, there could be people-to-people exchanges and humanitarian measures such as prisoner exchanges
Regional issues have been the main source of animus between Washington and Tehran for the past 40 years, with the U.S
Unfortunately, the Trump administration's decision to list the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization has made such cooperation
De-escalation of Israel's hostilities with Iran could play a direct role in reducing U.S
Israel may be able to divert world and regional public opinion from Palestine to Iran, but that will not eliminate the urgency of a solution
blind alignment with Israel and Saudi Arabia to confront Iran is not a solution
Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen and export of jihadist fundamentalism are certainly partially at fault, as is Israel's occupation and
global peace in the region, the U.S
needs to become more of an honest broker in pushing for peace, stability and security, engage all the major regional stakeholders around the
table, support ongoing diplomatic talks between Riyadh and Tehran and revive the JCPOA.
