Europe is against United States’ victory in Iran’s nuclear dispute

18 August 2010 | 17:14 Code : 3519 Editorial
Ali Beegdeli, university professor and foreign relations expert writes for Iranian Diplomacy
Europe is against United States’ victory in Iran’s nuclear dispute
After claims by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, David Miliband, about Iran’s nuclear program, the report published by the French parliament and Benyamin Netanyahu’s comments in Paris on Iran’s nuclear activities, signal a new wave of moves on the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program. Meanwhile, Tehran believes that Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for Common Foreign Policy, is the culprit of halt on nuclear talks.
 
Ali Beegdeli, university professor and foreign relations expert writes for Iranian Diplomacy:
 
The foreign relations’ apparatus of Iran has understood that in general, Europeans don’t want the Americans to be the winners of the nuclear talks, and what you can read between the lines from Solana’s remarks is that they don’t want the story of U.S. victories in Afghanistan and Iraq to be repeated about Tehran.
 
This hidden strategy prevails along the whole course of negotiations; but on Tehran’s claim that Solana has stopped talks between Iran and West, even if it’s true, I think the cause is transition of power in the United States.
 
New Moves by Europe and Israel on Iran’s Nuclear Issue
 
I think the recent remarks were made to show Mr. Obama the other side of the coin. In fact, EU or powerful centers outside EU still follow their previous agenda concerning Iran’s nuclear program, while Obama is ready for unconditional negotiations with Iran.
 
External and internal pressures –by the Zionist lobby- in Obama’s administration, will force him to change his soft approach towards Iran. For various reasons, talks on Iran’s nuclear program had lost momentum for some time and now Europe is trying to attract attention towards it, especially when power is transferred to a new group in the United States.
 
Arab countries and West’s diplomacy
 
Hillary Clinton’s election wouldn’t be of good for Middle East countries if we know about her Zionist tendencies and her anti-Islamic and anti-Arab attitude.
 
Arab countries joined the New York meeting to show they had no problem with Mr. Obama’s choices, and they wanted to keep the impetus on Iran’s nuclear program as it was during Bush’s presidency.
 
However, the Arab countries of the region haven’t managed to gain United States’ trust yet. Their stance is clear: they are afraid of a powerful Iran. But on the other hand, they haven’t been successful in coping with Bush’s policies –that was a failure also regarding Israel-Palestine issue-, and I don’t think they have any chance with Obama either.