With Another Approach, We Would Have a Deal with Iran Today
by Jan Oberg / June 30th, 2015
There could have been a deal with Iran today to the benefit of everybody if the nuclear issue had been approached in a fair, principled and visionary manner from Day One.
On the day of no deal, perhaps the Five Ps + Germany should spend a moment on self-reflection: What could we have done differently?
To the trained conflict- and peace-making eye, 99% of the Western commentators have failed to point out the benefits of a deal and, instead, devoted their creativity to find all kinds of possible negative aspects, details and of course on how the West should demand even more. Theyve suggested red lines at absurdum.
At the table sit the five largest nuclear weapons powers which have, de facto and de jure, for decades completely and systematically ignored the provisions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, NPT, and have repeatedly broken international law and conducted wars. They would never allow the type of inspections on their own territory that they demand of Iran. The U.S. issues threats and plan a war Iran has never threatened the U.S. And so on and so forth.
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