Can Iran deal be saved? If Donald Trump doesn't want a war with Iran, his own staff may be his biggest problem, experts say
Iran's latest suspension of certain commitments outlined in a 2015 nuclear deal and the United States' refusal to abide by the agreement at all by imposing strict sanctions against the Islamic Republic have left what was once hailed as a landmark diplomatic breakthrough strained to the point of crisis. Experts who have engaged in such high-level talks believe dialogue is still possible—but only if President Donald Trump ignores some of his staff's more bellicose tendencies.
"Trump is on a collision course with himself," International Crisis Group president and CEO Robert Malley, who served as former President Barack Obama's lead negotiator on the Iran nuclear deal, said Monday during a press call moderated by the group's Iran Project Director Ali Vaez. As a citizen, Trump may have repeatedly warned Obama not to take military action against Iran, but such a dramatic escalation nearly came under his own command last month when he ordered and subsequently canceled strikes after Revolutionary Guards shot down a U.S. drone flying within or near Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf. Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, who was a U.S.
Former U.K. ambassador to Iran Richard Dalton told reporters Monday that such EU-led efforts, already opposed by Pompeo and Bolton, would need to be"dramatically increased" to satisfy Iranian demands. He said European powers"don't believe the maximum pressure strategy is working and they don't think anybody would gain from war."
"The legalities of the UK seizure of a tanker heading for Syria with oil from Iran intrigues me. One refers to EU sanctions against Syria, but Iran is not a member of EU. And EU as a principle doesn't impose its sanctions on others. That's what the US does," European Council on Foreign Relations co-chair Carl Bildt said Monday in a tweet later shared by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who remarked"PRECISELY.
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