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Iran: The Only
"Good Deal" - And How to Work for It
by Malcolm Lowe
• March 27, 2015 at 5:00 am
Even if,
as the US Administration ceaselessly assures us, Iran's drive to acquire
nuclear weapons can be frustrated for a while, any relaxation of the current
economic sanctions will be used to finance Iran's other drive: its quest for
regional hegemony.
To begin
with, the P5+1 could adopt the very successful style of negotiation practiced
by Palestinians as well as Iranians. This is to whittle away at the position
of the other side by extracting one little concession after another, but then
to delay the negotiations indefinitely when the deal seems to be imminent.
The result is that when negotiations do resume, it is not from zero, but from
an inferior initial position of the other side.
Whenever
a deal seems near, one of the P5+1 should come up with a further demand or
demands. What they could do is adopt that role in succession, so that Iran is
the party that needs to keep starting afresh from a worse position.
In his celebrated address to both houses of the US Congress on March 3,
2015, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu castigated the looming
agreement on Iran's nuclear program in these words: "Now we're being
told that the only alternative to this bad deal is war. That's just not true.
The alternative to this bad deal is a much better deal." Given
Netanyahu's clear analysis of Iran's aims and methods, however, one might
conclude that even better would be no deal, but just to continue
pressure on Iran until it abandons its nuclear program, its long-range
missile programs and its designs on other Middle East countries.
To draw such a conclusion openly would not have suited an occasion on
which the Israeli Prime Minister was seeking maximum consensus and minimum
controversy. But that conclusion is demanded by two considerations. Both
featured in a warning issued by none other than Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal
in an interview with the BBC on March 16.
Zimbabwean
Civil Rights Activist Itai Dzamara Missing, Feared Kidnapped, Tortured or
Dead
March 26, 2015 at 7:30 am
Itai Dzamara, a critic of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, has been
missing since March 9, 2015. It is feared that the Mugabe regime has abducted
him, and that his safety and life are under severe threat. It is expected
that if he is harmed or found murdered, whoever is found responsible, no
matter who, will be punished with the full force of the law. It would be
best, if he has been abducted, if he were returned safely to his home at
once.
See also: Statement from the U.S. State Department
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