New publication | De-escalating the Iran Crisis: Is There a Role for Europe?| Abdolrasool Divsallar

MEDirections is delighted to share a new policy brief by Abdolrasool Divsallar.

This paper focuses on how the US-Iran military tension and Europe’s uneasy job running the JCPOA dispute resolution mechanism displays a complicated path to resolve Iran crisis.

How can the E3/EU contain the crisis below a manageable threshold? What could be done if the dispute resolution mechanism fails to produce positive results?

E3/EU countries need to adopt an inclusive de-escalatory strategy and combine it with nuclear diplomacy. This strategy should incorporate military and security confidence-building measures at its core accompanied by active regional diplomacy and an extension of EU-Iran relations into the developmental and humanitarian dimensions. 


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