The West & the Achaemenid Dynasty RL Vol XIII No 445 MMXIX

The West & the Achaemenid Dynasty

Is Persia’s Test in the Gulf Self-inflicted or a Deliberate Battle Drum by the West & Iran's  Neighbours?

Public Lecture - Respublica Litereria - RL Vol XIII No 445 MMXIX

Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD

Professor of Public Policy & Sustainable Institutional Reforms

https://addisababa.academia.edu/CostyCostantinos

Abstract

Iran has been under pressure from several corners on three issues from the West and the Gulf States. First is the 2015 nuclear deal struck between Iran and six world powers - the US, UK, Russia, France, China, and Germany. This was the signature foreign policy achievement of Barack Obama's presidency. The initial framework lifted crippling economic sanctions on Iran in return for limitations to the country's controversial nuclear energy programme, which international powers feared Iran would use to create a nuclear weapon. President Trump dealt a blow to the Iran nuclear deal as he announced that he would not certify that Iran is in compliance with the agreement. While the unravelling of the deal is neither automatic nor certain, the announcement will have clear implications for the agreement – and for U.S. diplomacy. Secondly, Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been devastated by a war between forces loyal to the government and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement, who are allegedly supported by Iran, and the Saudi-led bombings. Thirdly, its relations with Qatar has led a blockade by the GCC to demand that Qatar would have to align itself with other Arabs and the Gulf, militarily, politically, socially and economically, as well as in financial matters.

This has grave implications for world peace and security that, added to the North Korean weapons experiment, may led to a broader carnage with the use of nuclear arsenal. The need for the fundamental change on how the global community deals with the internecine crises must change. In spite of the emergence of think tanks that would set the stage for the paradigmatic development of internal models of growth and human welfare, to every human problem, states always come with a solution that is smart, simple and immoral, a linear way of thinking that is inadequate to unravel the many complex inter-relationships underlying and religious fanaticism and terrorism. It enters Gulf politics and society in relatively abstract and plain form, yet pundits expect it to land itself to the immediate and vital polity's socio-political experience. It suggests itself, and seems within reach, only to elude and appears readily practicable only to resist realisation.

Key words: Iran, Nuclear Deal, JCPOA, GCC, Yemen, Saudi, Qatar,

See paper here or  https://www.academia.edu/38563598/The_West_and_the_Achaemenid_Dynasty_RL_Vol_XIII_No_445_MMXIX.pdf

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