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Global Geopolitical Series: Trump seeks grand Middle East Peace Agreement including Iran

As President Trump’s North Korea diplomacy have started to bear initial fruits, he is looking to make a grand peace agreement in the Middle East which would include Iran, Israel, and Palestinians as he moves the United States out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as Iran nuclear agreement. His remarks during the JCPOA speech bore enough of hints what he is been looking for as he re-imposes sanctions on Iran. Here are his key remarks,

“As we exit the Iran deal, we will be working with our allies to find a real, comprehensive, and lasting solution to the Iranian nuclear threat. This will include efforts to eliminate the threat of Iran’s ballistic-missile program, to stop its terrorist activities worldwide, and to block its menacing activity across the Middle East. In the meantime, powerful sanctions will go into full effect. If the regime continues its nuclear aspirations, it will have bigger problems than it has ever had before.

Finally, I want to deliver a message to the long-suffering people of Iran: The people of America stand with you. It has now been almost 40 years since this dictatorship seized power and took a proud nation hostage. Most of Iran’s 80 million citizens have sadly never known an Iran that prospered in peace with its neighbors and commanded the admiration of the world. But the future of Iran belongs to its people. They are the rightful heirs to a rich culture and an ancient land and they deserve a nation that does justice to their dreams, honor to their history, and glory to their god.

Iran’s leaders will naturally say that they refuse to negotiate a new deal. They refuse and that is fine. I probably would say the same thing if I was in their position. But the fact is they are going to want to make a new and lasting deal, one that benefits all of Iran and the Iranian people. When they do, I am ready, willing, and able.

Great things can happen for Iran and great things can happen for the peace and stability that we all want in the Middle East. There has been enough suffering, death, and destruction. Let it end now. Thank you. God bless you.”

It is clear that he is looking for an agreement with Iran and other concerned parties that would include Yemen (Iran and Saudi Arabia fighting in a proxy civil war), Syria (Iran building military posts in Syria) and other parts of Middle East (recognition of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital). Iran has been a threat to U.S. ally in Saudi Arabia which has been struggling to make gains in the Yemen civil war and Trump administration’s Israel-Palestine peace proposal, which has been opposed by Tehran and Ankara.

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