- 26 May 2019 10:18
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During the joint press conference involving US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi Mr. Pompeo said that Washington did not want to start a war with Iran. According to him, the goal of Americans is to change the behavior of the leadership of the Islamic Republic. This statement was made against the background of the United States ship and air groups strengthening in the Middle East.
In order to understand the scheme, which the White House continues to use to build its relations with Iran and other world states, it would be useful to take a quick look at building its relations with Tehran.
The United States has wanted to change Iran’s foreign policy based on its personal political interests and priorities in the region. But not everyone, probably, understands that by the ultimate goal Washington means not “changing the behavior of the leadership of the Islamic Republic”, but a complete change of the ruling regime in Iran, which does not suit it. Therefore, the United States will continue to exert continuous pressure on Iran, no matter whether its leadership changes its position or not. Sanctions are only part of this game.
According to international experts, the United States has been declaring this task for a long time and trying to implement it using various methods. They will use all the tools that they have and Pompeo’s official statement has not changed much.
Once again, analysts say that regarding Iran, Washington continues to use the traditional foreign policy tactics for the American administration, which Donald Trump worked out being an entrepreneur. First, a country is openly pressed and threatened, they impose new sanctions and threaten with tougher additional ones, and then make some statements about the possibility of dialogue and compromise. It is also interesting that, forcing the leadership of an opponent country to make some compromise, the White House artificially reduces its population’s level of trust in its leadership.
Thus, in 2015 the Iran leadership had to sign the JCPOA after years of negotiations and the exhaustion of political resources in search of a compromise on the nuclear program. As a result, the Iranian society responded to it very ambiguously, especially the conservative circles. At that time, many people in Iran considered that this was an absolutely unacceptable concession and surrender, that the country's leadership was made by pro-American liberals, who had surrendered national interests in the name of some empty promises. The fact that the United States came out of this transaction and introduced new sanctions was a severe strike against the moderate circles in Iran, ready at least for some kind of compromise and dialogue with the US.
This is such an interesting tactic.
However, politics is not a business, and in the international relations sphere there are quite clear limits, after reaching which a country will never search any compromises.
If Washington expects that Tehran will surrender its positions again, it deludes itself concerning the current situation in Iran-US relations.
During the joint press conference involving US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi Mr. Pompeo said that Washington did not want to start a war with Iran. According to him, the goal of Americans is to change the behavior of the leadership of the Islamic Republic. This statement was made against the background of the United States ship and air groups strengthening in the Middle East.
In order to understand the scheme, which the White House continues to use to build its relations with Iran and other world states, it would be useful to take a quick look at building its relations with Tehran.
The United States has wanted to change Iran’s foreign policy based on its personal political interests and priorities in the region. But not everyone, probably, understands that by the ultimate goal Washington means not “changing the behavior of the leadership of the Islamic Republic”, but a complete change of the ruling regime in Iran, which does not suit it. Therefore, the United States will continue to exert continuous pressure on Iran, no matter whether its leadership changes its position or not. Sanctions are only part of this game.
According to international experts, the United States has been declaring this task for a long time and trying to implement it using various methods. They will use all the tools that they have and Pompeo’s official statement has not changed much.
Once again, analysts say that regarding Iran, Washington continues to use the traditional foreign policy tactics for the American administration, which Donald Trump worked out being an entrepreneur. First, a country is openly pressed and threatened, they impose new sanctions and threaten with tougher additional ones, and then make some statements about the possibility of dialogue and compromise. It is also interesting that, forcing the leadership of an opponent country to make some compromise, the White House artificially reduces its population’s level of trust in its leadership.
Thus, in 2015 the Iran leadership had to sign the JCPOA after years of negotiations and the exhaustion of political resources in search of a compromise on the nuclear program. As a result, the Iranian society responded to it very ambiguously, especially the conservative circles. At that time, many people in Iran considered that this was an absolutely unacceptable concession and surrender, that the country's leadership was made by pro-American liberals, who had surrendered national interests in the name of some empty promises. The fact that the United States came out of this transaction and introduced new sanctions was a severe strike against the moderate circles in Iran, ready at least for some kind of compromise and dialogue with the US.
This is such an interesting tactic.
However, politics is not a business, and in the international relations sphere there are quite clear limits, after reaching which a country will never search any compromises.
If Washington expects that Tehran will surrender its positions again, it deludes itself concerning the current situation in Iran-US relations.
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