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Former
Iranian foreign minister proposes peace plan to end war
Javad
Zarif, the former Iranian foreign minister, has proposed a peace plan in an
article in the US publication Foreign Affairs.
Zarif, a
professor at the University of Tehran who also served as vice-president,
suggested Iran should “declare victory and make a deal that both ends this
conflict and prevents the next one”.
Here are
some of the terms in his plan:
- Iran commit to never seeking nuclear weapons and “down-blend” its stock of enriched uranium below 3.67%, the level set by the 2015 nuclear deal Donald Trump pulled the US out of in 2018.
- To include China and Russia in any deal to establish a single uranium enrichment site for the region, where Iran “would transfer all its enriched material and equipment to that space”.
- The US and allies drop all sanctions against Iran and allow the country to fully participate in the global economy.
- Reopen the strait of Hormuz, but the US must allow Tehran to use the key shipping route too.
- Iran and the US sign a nonagression pact “in which both countries pledge to not strike each other in the future”.
While
Zarif has no official position in Iran’s government, he helped get reformist
president Masoud Pezeshkian elected and has been described as a target of
hardliners within the country’s theocracy. Associated Press reported that Zarif
would not have been able to publish the Foreign Affairs article without at
least running the positions past senior members of the Iranian leadership.
It
remains unclear how the US president would respond to the proposal,
particularly as Zarif referred to Trump’s close friend Steve Witkoff and his
son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as “completely illiterate on both geopolitics and
nuclear technicalities”. Witkoff and Kushner led US nuclear negotiations with
Iran, holding talks less than 48 hours before the US and Israel launched
strikes on Iran on 28 February.
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