TEHRAN (FNA)- Irans efficient role playing in the international community can best serve the long term interests of the US government, a US-based think tank said.Stephen Walt in a Foreign Policy article said that The interim nuclear deal with Iran is an important step forward, and the various negotiating teams can be justly proud of their achievement.
Yet, he reminded that this deal has its own opponents and proponents, but for the opponents the main issue is something beyond Irans nuclear program.
The more important issues are Iran's future relations with the outside world and whether the deal paves the way for reintegrating that country into the world economy and the broader international community, Walt said.
The real issue is the long-term balance of power in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East. Iran has far more power potential than any of the other states in the region: a larger population, a fairly sophisticated and well-educated middle class, some good universities, and abundant oil and gas to boost economic growth, he underlined.
He said that the real point behind the Israeli and Saudi officials opposing nuclear deal is that they want to keep Iran in a box for a long time, isolated, friendless and artificially weakened.
Walt added that besides solving the nuclear issue, the US should establish better relations with Iran in order to balance the power in the Middle East region and above all secure its long term interests since Washington needs good relations with as many countries as possible in the Middle-East. "America's long-term interests are best served by helping reintegrate Iran into the global community... and managing this process will require reassuring existing allies, but this development would also force current allies to listen to Washington a bit more attentively, which wouldn't be a bad thing."
What matters is whether an agreement on that issue will allow relations between Iran and the United States and the rest of the G5+1 to normalize in the months and years ahead. And it is that development that opponents of an agreement will be desperate to prevent, he said.
By Fars News Agency
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