Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on policy matters in Iran, assured an audience of thousands of members of the hard-line Basij paramilitary organization that the negotiators would not compromise on Iran’s main nuclear policies.
“I do not interfere in the details of the talks,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a speech in Tehran. “We will not step back one iota from our rights.”
Iran’s leaders have always emphasized a set of “red lines,” vowing not to stop enrichment, which has been demanded by five United Nations Security Council resolutions. The Iranians also refuse to temporarily halt enrichment.
The Geneva talks are a continuation of an attempt two weeks ago to clinch a deal with Iran that would put a brake on its nuclear program in return for an easing of economic sanctions. American officials say those terms are intended only as a first step to a comprehensive agreement that would remove the risk of Iran’s developing a nuclear weapon.
Those talks failed, in part because France, one of the six world powers conducting the talks, objected that the proposed deal did not d...
...to be able use this as an example and as a bargaining tool to convince other countries to do the same, but the small effort did not convince anyone.
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November 4th, 1979 was a normal day for many people across the globe, however in Tehran, Iran a 444 day long journey had just begun for 60 plus Americans. Today this issue is better known as the Iranian Hostage Crisis. This plight started with the United States attempt to westernize Iran. Which resulted in severe backlash from Iran against the United States own citizens. This quickly became a crisis for the United States and a scurry to try and save American lives. Because of attempts to change Iran, the Iranians started to resent the United States for many reasons, which went beyond the 444 day long crisis. The crisis and the events that led up to it, still have lasting effects that create tensions between the two nations today. Through the
...hich has been seen in the past as the deals that are struck may prove to be nothing for Iran anyways. United States went into Iraq against the UN. Iran knowing this, would understand that striking the deal with the US may not be in their best interest and can simply play along to their demands, but secretly continue their research and development on nuclear technology. Ultimately, leaving the second option as a reliable one, which is pre-emptive war. The other options give the Iranians too much time and leniency regarding a very big threat, a threat that would be in the hands of a Middle Eastern State in a very unstable surrounding environment known to home anti-western and anti-Jewish radical organizations and people. This is something that would be near impossible to contain considering guerilla warfare and stateless people are very hard to track down and control.
The chances are good that a war could take place, but the chances are just as good that political leaders will find another way to deal with Iran’s relations with the world, especially after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the book Arms and Influence by Thomas Schelling, he points out that when diplomacy and bargaining are taking place, there has to be a common interest, even if the common interest is to avoid mutual damage. In order for bargaining to work, there must be “An awareness of the need to make the other party prefer an outcome acceptable to oneself” (Schelling 1). In much of the language reported from Iran, however, it does not appear that Iran is willing to negotiate, maybe because it does not feel that damage will be inflicted by not bargaining.
This report examines the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed upon on July 14, 2015 between Iran and the P5+1, which includes the U.S., U.K., France, China, Russia and Germany. The agreement fosters a temporary solution in which the P5+1 removed crippling economic sanctions in return for the cease of Iran’s nuclear development. Great powers recognize the threat that Iran poised to the universal vital interest of worldwide peace and established sustainable international relationships to maintain leverage over Iran. However, the JCPOA contains deficiencies that challenge long term restrictions and inhibit the enforcement of implications upon Iran for violations. First, the sunset clause, “Permits critical nuclear, arms, and ballistic
First, Centrifuges are tube-shaped machines used to enrich uranium, the material necessary for nuclear power and nuclear bombs. Iran would have to reduce its total of about 19,000 centrifuges, 10,000 of which are still spinning today, down to 6,104 under the deal, with only 5,060 allowed to enrich uranium over the next ten years (Bradner 2015). Second, Iran’s centrifuges will only enrich uranium to 3.67%, enough for civil use to provide energy to parts of the country, but not enough to build a nuclear bomb. Iran will reduce its current stockpile of 10,000 kilograms of low-enriched uranium to 300 kilograms for 15 years (Bradner 2015). “Iran has agreed to limit uranium enrichment and ship its uranium fuel overseas for 10 years. Iran agreed to a 15-year ban on processing fuel that is close to being bomb grade” (Dorell 2015). Third, the breakout time, which is the period of time that it would take for Iran to acquire the material it needs to make one nuclear weapon, would be extended to one year under the deal, and wo...
It would be better for them to cut support to the government and allow them to continue the development of Plutonium then to supply them with much needed resources, which would allow them to grow stronger, while building Weapons of Mass Destruction, behind the United States back using a non-sanctioned material.
With the new Islamic rule that came in it was a gender brawl for power because the woman loved their rights and they did not want to give them up to the males ( they as well had to give up their careers). It was very hard to get Iran together after a huge change and they are still trying today to get everything back into it’s place once as it was before. For the 21 century Iran desperately wanted their nuclear program to make it’s way in but failed time after time again and as of today are making negotiations to see what they have to do, to finally get their nuclear program that they have been trying for almost forty years. Iran is slowly but surely getting to a point where they are talking with west and trying to patch up all their problems to get the nuclear program that they have been yearning for so long. For Iran leader after leader the country kept on getting more and more strict and trying to follow the true Islamic rules to try and keep Iran from being “corrupt”(from the west) as it once was believed to when the Shah was leading the country. Iran still has a long way to go to make what the Iranian people want and what the government to make it whole and equal all around. With Iran the women
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a country of volatile politics in the Middle East, participating in numerous minor disputes and full out wars during its history. Its participation in a bloody and indecisive war with Iraq, its sponsorship of terrorist groups such as the Hezbollah and Hamas (Bruno 2011), and its controversial election have all made international bodies raise their eyebrows in the past. However, it is Iran’s nuclear ambitions that truly captured the attention of all nations in the recent months.
The Munich Pact is a perfect example of how negotiation can fail when all of the pieces do not fall correctly into place. When first beginning the negotiation process, it is important to look at all of the parties involved and what they are trying to achieve.... ... middle of paper ... ...
A fascinating new advancement towards the protection of the world from nuclear weapons occurred on February 25, 2016 at the State Department in Washington. According to a news article found on The New York Times Website , China and the United States have come to an agreement to a resolution that would impose strict sanctions on North Korea, a country that has become a nuclear threat over the last couple decades. The sanctions would ban the trade of potentially threatening weapons as well as fuel to North Korea, “The proposed measures, according to a U.S. official, would ban the trade of conventional weapons, luxury goods like jet skis and Rolex watches, and aviation fuel to north Korea, which would effectively ground its airlines” . The resolution is a direct product from the events occurring a few weeks earlier when North Korea’s capital Pyongyang tested a hydrogen bomb, an extremely dangerous weapon.
However, it is important to bear in mind the wider regional context while dealing with this issue. Israel is still skeptical of the possibility of an agreement with Iran and interprets Mr. Rouhani’s recent conciliatory rhetoric and moves as a smokescreen to kill two birds with one stone: to buy time for the final push to acquire nuclear weapons and present a nuclear-armed Iran as a fait accompli, and to scale back sanctions, with the understanding that their reactivation will be, at least, difficult. France is also supporting Israel’s position on this issue.
This year was the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran. Iran made initial progress in nuclear talks with the World's top six (United States, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany). We were expected to resume normal economic and trade exchanges with the West. I believed that Iran will be getting better if it can be more open-minded for communication and cooperation with other countries.
Fifty-one countries established the United Nations also known as the UN on October 24, 1945 with the intentions of preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security. Over the years the UN has grown in numbers to include 185 countries, thus making the organization and its family of agencies the largest in an effort to promote world stability. Since 1954 the UN and its organizations have received the Nobel Peace Prize on 5 separate occasions. The first in 1954 awarded to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, for its assistance to refugees, and finally in 1988 to the United Nations Peace-keeping Forces, for its peace-keeping operations. As you can see, the United Nations efforts have not gone without notice.