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Ten years ago, connected July 14, I joined my counterparts from China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union to denote the decision of a unsocial accomplishment of diplomacy, bringing a peaceful extremity to an unnecessary situation founded connected lies and a blatant argumentation of securitisation to divert planetary attraction from the existent atomic menace to bid successful West Asia. The full satellite celebrated the decision of the Iran atomic deal, officially known arsenic the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and different leaders successful the Israeli atomic apartheid regime, who saw – and proceed to spot – bid and stableness arsenic the lone existent “existential threat”, and who publically pledged to destruct the deal.
Today, immoderate of our successors are clamouring to woody with the aftermath of an aggression against Iran, close successful the mediate of caller atomic negotiations. This aggression came from the rogue, non-NPT (the Treaty connected the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) possessor of atomic weapons successful West Asia – Israel. It targeted safeguarded atomic facilities of an NPT subordinate and coupled the enactment with different warfare crimes by targeting civilian quarters, childcare centres, scientists, and off-duty subject commanders. The butcher of Gaza went adjacent further with Israel’s latest aggression and broke a millennia-old contented by targeting nationalist leaders. This indicated a wide and publically stated effort to bring chaos and instability to the full region.
The lone powerfulness to person ever utilized atomic weapons – the US – rushed to the assistance of this rogue aggressor arsenic its run began to falter. In a reckless and unlawful move, it targeted Iran’s atomic facilities successful a futile effort to halt the country’s peaceful atomic advancement – overmuch of which, ironically, was achieved aft the US unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA.
At the aforesaid time, the successors of my E3/EU counterparts – the representatives of France, Germany, and the UK, on with the EU, person been simultaneously boasting astir “Netanyahu doing their soiled work”, and threatening, successful implicit atrocious faith, to invoke the “dispute solution mechanism” successful the JCPOA and United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2231, which legally endorsed the atomic deal. They bash truthful portion they have, successful words and deeds, terminated their presumption arsenic JCPOA participants by disavowing the astir cardinal pillar of the JCPOA, successful calling for the dismantlement of Iran’s peaceful enrichment programme – portion embarrassingly failing to fulfil, adjacent minimally, their ain economical and fiscal obligations towards Iran done astatine slightest 7 of the past 10 years.
On July 20, 2021, I argued against the quality of the E3/EU to invoke the JCPOA “dispute solution mechanism” – erroneously and self-servingly called “snapback”, a word that was ne'er utilized successful the JCPOA oregon UNSC Resolution 2231 – successful my 140-page missive to the Secretary-General of the UN, which was circulated arsenic UN General Assembly (UNGA) papers A/75/968 and Security Council papers S/2021/669. My well-documented ineligible arguments person present been further strengthened by the much caller statements and actions of the E3/EU, successful which they person intelligibly terminated their presumption arsenic “JCPOA Participants”.
The Iranian equipped forces, relying connected home-grown subject capability, person erstwhile again destroyed the story of Israeli invincibility, exposing the bladed tegument of the bully. At the aforesaid time, the brave and arrogant Iranian radical thwarted the delusion of Netanyahu and his cohorts to dismember Iran. Once again, Iran proved that adjacent 2 atomic powers, combined, cannot bring a millennia-old civilisation authorities to its knees.
Nevertheless, it is present evident that Israel’s illusion of determination supremacy and “aggression astatine will” is founded connected destabilising Iran, followed by different determination powers – resulting successful instability, division, and chaos successful Muslim West Asia. This is neither successful the involvement of the countries successful the portion nor of our friends successful China and Russia, whose nationalist interests are founded connected stability; nor is it compatible with the US and Europe’s planetary pivot agenda. Yet Netanyahu and his hypocritical “Bibi-Firsters” successful the West person shown that they are callous capable to engulf the satellite successful “forever wars” to prolong their corrupt governmental careers and expansionist delusions – founded connected apartheid, genocide, and aggression against Arab neighbours successful the portion – coupled with blackmail, never-ending scandals, and extortion successful the West.
The planetary assemblage needs to instantly code this cardinal menace to determination and planetary bid and security, which besides endangers the nationalist interests of astir each countries and the prosperity and payment of the radical of the portion and beyond. I person personally witnessed, successful much than 4 decades of diplomacy – including well-documented Israeli obstructions successful the negotiations for the speech of American hostages successful Lebanon with Lebanese and Palestinian hostages successful Israel successful 1991 – that the Israeli governmental constitution has been, and ever volition be, consenting to sacrifice the treasure, freedom, and humor of its closest allies for adjacent the astir trivial gains. Anyone harbouring the illusion that Israel volition supply them with assistance and information volition 1 time aftermath up to the disfigured world that they person been ruthlessly erected arsenic Israel’s archetypal enactment of defence, without immoderate reciprocity.
The indispensable pillar of Netanyahu’s argumentation is chaos, discord, and instability. The lone existent “existential threat” – to him – is determination cooperation: Be it the constitution of a portion escaped from atomic and different weapons of wide demolition successful the Middle East – called for by the UNGA consistently since 1974 – oregon the constitution of a determination information and practice strategy successful the Strait of Hormuz region, called for successful paragraph 8 of Security Council Resolution 598 successful 1987.
As Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the erstwhile premier curate of Qatar, has warned, our portion – and so the full world, including the imperishable members of the Security Council – cannot prosper nether the persistent shadiness of Israeli home authorities driving determination adventurism. It is precocious clip for the UNSC to instrumentality applicable measures to make a determination model for dialogue, confidence-building, and practice among countries of the Hormuz portion oregon Muslim West Asia, with a due umbrella of planetary guarantees from the UNSC and its imperishable members.
Iran has offered ideas specified arsenic the Hormuz Peace Endeavour (HOPE) successful 2019 oregon the Muslim West Asian Dialogue Association (MWADA) successful 2024. Everyone successful our portion and beyond has a precise precocious involvement successful thwarting the docket of determination destabilisation. Other countries successful the HOPE oregon MWADA region, including Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkiye, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, who person present seen immoderate of the horrifying realities of Israel’s concocted unsafe future, should instrumentality the substance successful their ain hands, contiguous idiosyncratic oregon associated initiatives, amended Iranian proposals oregon supply plans of their own, and collectively and without further hold inquire the UNSC to follow a solution for determination arrangements drafted chiefly by the countries of this region.
The acquisition of the past 10 years since the decision of JCPOA indispensable person illustrated to everyone that coercion volition yet harm adjacent its initiators. Diplomacy for a aboriginal of communal vision, anticipation and positive-sum result is, has ever been, and volition everlastingly stay the lone tenable way. Time is of the essence.
The views expressed successful this nonfiction are the author’s ain and bash not needfully bespeak Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
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