Tehran- Despite the American demand to dismantle nuclear facilities and stop the enrichment of uranium that Iran considers a red line, the two sides of the negotiation, last Sunday, described nuclear talks as encouraging and serious. While the Omani mediator spoke about “useful and innovative ideas that reflect the desire to reach an honorable agreement,” which drew a major question mark about the nature of the new proposal.
The next day, the Persian newspaper “Khorasan” revealed a non -official proposal – the Iranian side put forward in the fourth round of nuclear negotiations, stressing that it has caused a remarkable development in the pace of negotiations that almost reached a dead end due to the American demands and conditions for any possible agreement.
In a report entitled “Diplomacy in Fog”, the newspaper revealed that the Iranian negotiating team was released during the fourth round, “an initiative to establish a joint consortium (coalition) for uranium enrichment” in the presence of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and with American symbolic investments to enrich uranium inside Iran and then ship it for civilian uses in Gulf countries.
The newspaper pointed out that the new proposal would guarantee Tehran for its nuclear technology and to remove the security and transparency of the neighborhood and Western powers, adding that the American negotiating team saw that the proposal was “surprising, but it deserves study.”
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According to this report, the proposal includes continuing uranium enrichment by less than 5% on Iranian soil, in order to overcome the obstacle of continuous enrichment by 60% in Iran, and exceed the American claim to stop it completely.
Meanwhile, the analytical website “Aquar” quotes informed sources that the proposal does not include monitoring the enrichment reactor in “Natanz” and “Fordo” because it is constructed in the depths of the earth, but rather is to be established one joint facility at the very least and with joint monitoring.
The sources also revealed discussions that revolve around the construction of the facility in one of the Iranian islands due to its geographical proximity to both the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and that Foreign Minister Abbas Araqji raised the issue during his recent visit to both Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, and that the latter interacted with him positively, while Saudi Arabia dealt with him with caution.
For his part, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian parliament, Waheed Ahmadi, affirmed the authenticity of these reports, considering the “nuclear coalition” a suitable solution to build confidence between Iran and other countries on the one hand, and to steal the pretext of Western powers on the other hand.
In a statement to the news agency “Rakna”, MP Ahmadi described the demands to transfer the Iranian stock of highly enriched uranium out of the country as a “trap that opposes national interests”, stressing the need to guarantee Tehran its nuclear achievements, as it constitutes a pillar of the country’s scientific and technical development.
Different responses
The proposal to form a Gulf nuclear coalition sparked wide reactions among Iranian circles; Between a category in which you see a way out that preserves the country its nuclear achievements and removes the specter of war from the region, and another spectrum that warns of its negative repercussions on the independence of the country and depriving it of nuclear deterrence as a result of the American pressure on the new partners.
In the context, political researcher carpets in Tabatabaei believes that the new proposal comes to find common interests with neighboring countries in order to neutralize the negative role adopted by some countries after the 2015 nuclear bumper, based on their lack of use of it.
In his interview with the newspaper “Ferchichkken”, Tabatabaei urges to employ joint regional interests to ensure the resilience of any possible agreement on the Iranian nuclear and removing Western concerns.
On the other hand, the researcher in international relations, Hussein Abki, fears that the proposal is a gateway to undermine the Iranian nuclear program, involve other countries in it, and transfer its facilities distributed in the center of the country to the island of the Gulf waters.
In an interview with the newspaper “Ferhichkan”, the researcher warns that the American side acquires shares in the joint nuclear coalition to turn from an obstacle in front of the Tehran nuclear program to an influential episode in it “especially through its influence on the Gulf partners,” asking what if the partners decide to disrupt the project and stop enrichment completely? Will Tehran meet the decision and end its entire nuclear program?
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As for the editor -in -chief of “Noor News”, a brilliant Kettayoun Zadeh, she believes that the new project can guarantee Iran its right to enrich uranium, provided that it takes legal and technical observations into consideration, as well as its ability to attract foreign investments and enhance the relations of the Islamic Republic with its regional environment.
In an article posted on an “Iranian diplomat” close to the prominent diplomat Sadiq Kharazi, the author warns that neglecting the legal aspects or the partners’ abuse of their pledges in the joint project would turn it into a threat to the country’s independence in its nuclear industry, and Tehran urges the drawing of red lines that guarantee its rights in nuclear technology and fields of research and development and provides them with immunity to sanctions.
The writer explained that the experience of the joint nuclear project, and if it seems modern in the Middle East, is no longer the first of its kind in the world; Europe has already launched the “Eurinco” nuclear fuel project, and Russia launched a similar project under the title “International Center for Underremia in Anglick”.
I realized that Tehran had previously participated and participated with 40% of the shares of the French “Eurodif” coalition in the 1970s, but it has not yet gained fruit, warning against the repeated experiment in the 21st century.
Risks and challenges
Lami Zadeh saw that the new proposal is not without challenges and threats for Iran, which will find itself need to reach an agreement with one of the partners to take the major decisions in the project, not to mention that the presence of a foreign cadre, especially from America, will expose its techniques and data to influence and facilitate their penetration or expose them to cyber attacks.
She added that some Iranian circles consider cooperation with the Emirates a “strategic betrayal” because of its normalization with Israel.
In light of the continuous foreign pressures on Tehran and the latter’s need to enhance its regional relations and the difficulties facing the return of the hard currency into Iran, the writer aims that “conditional approval” on the joint nuclear coalition seems wise at the present time, and that the project would provide a diplomatic guarantee for Iran’s nuclear program.