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Prominent commentators across the world share the view that the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) helped Iran survive the destructive outcomes of the heaviest sanctions during its contemporary history. said Former Deputy for the Iranian Supreme National Security (SNCS) Hossein Mousavian.
He said the signing of the nuclear deal with six world powers and the European Union as the coordinator of the talks had 10 major outcomes for the country.
Mousavian who is currently a senior lecturer at the Princeton University in the US also said that a quartet comprised of the Zionist lobbies. Arab Takfiri lobbies. the American extremist neo-conservatives and the anti-Iran opposition led by the terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) are active against the Islamic Republic.
After the US presidential elections and the coming into power of the Republican candidate. the anti-Iran quartet is now focusing on pressing Iran without breaching the JCPOA content in a bid to agitate Iran into violating the nuclear agreement which would reverse the international situation into pre-JCPOA conditions. he said.
As Iran’s former nuclear negotiator. he said the US and Europe imposed three “crippling sanctions” beyond the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions which included restrictions on sale of oil. the Central Bank of Iran and the SWIFT.
These sanctions. put together. paralyzed Iran’s banking and financial system and inflicted billions of dollars of damage on the country but the JCPOA helped remove all those sanctions leading to duplication of Iran’s oil sale. establishment of ties with over one hundred banks worldwide and the resumption of SWIFT use that makes banking and financial transactions possible. the analyst said.
As Americans have said. he noted. oil sanction inflicted about 170 billion dollars of damage on Iran.
As for the JCPOA achievements. he said it resulted in removal of air industry sanctions. paved the way for export of Iran’s carpets. handicrafts. caviar and dried nuts to the US and opening of new channels for Iran by the US Treasury for import of medicine and medical equipment.
Also. Mousavian noted. Iran managed to get the money relating to its pre-revolution military purchases from the US which amounted to 1.7 billion dollars in cash.
After the JCPOA. the western world joined voices in supporting Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities and in expressing interest in cooperating with Iran. he said.
“Today. Iran is eligible to possess tens of nuclear power plants and. for the first time. even managed to sell its heavy water to the US.”
And the most amazing development is that the US officially recognized Iran’s enrichment and heavy water industries. the former politician said.
Mousavian went on to stress that the release of a number of Iranian-American inmates jailed in the US after the Islamic Revolution which he described as an unprecedented event came as the result of the JCPOA.
Prior to the JCPOA. he said. the US opposed Iran’s presence in international Syria talks. but it quit its views after the signing of the nuclear deal which practically meant the official recognition of Iran’s situation in the region.
The signing of the nuclear deal created a big crack in the US relations with the Zionist regime. Saudi Arabia and a number of its Arab allies that have always been opposing Iran-US contacts and even favoured a US-led military attack against Iran. he said.
While before JCPOA both main partisan groups in the US agreed on the need for “regime change” in Iran. they experienced a huge gap in America’s policy regarding Iran after the JCPOA approval during the second presidency of Barack Obama. Mousavian said.
However. Mousavian noted. Iran benefited from the JCPOA in a number of ways. the most important of which was to annul the consensus existing in the UNSC about Iran being a threat to the world peace and security that by itself was considered a major blow to Iran’s credibility after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in the country in 1979.
Furthermore. he said. all six resolutions issued against Iran inflicting destructive economic sanctions on the country were all removed after the nuclear deal.
For three decades. he said. the US and a number of other western countries used to accuse Iran of pursuing a nuclear arms program. a claim which was approved by the world’s highest ranking official bodies. namely the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Security Council while now the JCPOA has persuaded them all to drop those allegations and even stop talking about the Possible Military Dimension of Iran’s nuclear program.
Recalling a time when the US and the Zionist regime had managed to create a global consensus against Iran with Russia. China and Europe joining hands with the US in exercising international sanctions against Iran. he said today Europe. China and Russia are holding quite different views from those of the US towards Iran’s performance
.The politician further stressed that only one year after its adoption. the JCPOA has had great tangible impacts on regional and international developments.
He also commented on the situation after the US president-elect Donald Trump takes office in near future as a president whose policies are widely unkown to the world especially regarding the fact that the majority of his Republican presidential team are extremist elements who hold harsh views towards Iran and the JCPOA.
He offered his views about the legal and international norms governing the probable situation when the next US president decides to sabotage JCPOA implementation.
The senior analyst said the JCPOA dwelled on only one single issue. Iran’s nuclear program. so other areas of differences between the US and Iran continue to exist and could even keep growing during Trump presidency.
Both the US and Iran have a free hand to exercise sanctions against each other in all other areas and the US Congress is likely to opt for yet new sanctions against Iran under human rights and anti-terrorism covers which would not be vetoed by the then President Trump. he said.
He further underlined that the US and the Zionist regime waged a real political. economic and security war against Iran in post-JCPOA years noting they carried covered cyber operations with military dimensions against Iranian nuclear sites and scientists which could have even led to attacks to Iran’s nuclear places.
In a certain period I mean in summer of 2011. he said. Iran’s nuclear body as a gesture of good will permitted the IAEA inspectors to visit any parts of the Iranian nuclear facilities they wished and then only a few weeks later the Iranian president – during his New York trip – announced release of American mountaineers who were detained Iran.
These were two big clear examples of Iran’s good will which were shortly responded by the US and EU decisions to impose sanctions on the Iranian oil industry and banking system and then block its access to SWIFT as well as the UNSC resolutions on Iran’s human rights practices and terrorism.
JCPOA was signed in 2015 between Iran and the world six major states ending more than a decade of dispute about Iran`s peaceful nuclear program.
