The Iranian foreign ministry announced that it is not willing to attend EU-brokered talks with the US over the future of the Iran nuclear deal because Washington has not done enough to lift restrictions against Tehran. Explaining the Iranian refusal to attend talks, the foreign ministry spokesperson, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said on February 21: “Considering the recent positions and actions of the United States and three European countries, the Islamic Republic of Iran does not consider this is the time to hold an informal meeting proposed by the European coordinator of the UN security council… There has been no change in the US position and behaviour yet, and the Biden administration has not only not abandoned Trump’s failed policy of maximum pressure, it has not even announced its commitment to fulfilling its responsibilities in UN resolution 2231.” Khatibzadeh said Iran would remain in touch with the EU’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell.
I understand Iran’s hesitation to signing this nuclear deal because they are a country that wants to be taken seriously on the global scale, so they feel inclined to develop nuclear weapons. But obviously, we as Americans don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons, because that would likely end catastrophically for a lot of countries in the Middle East and probably the world. Iran hasn’t proven itself to be trustworthy enough to us to allow them to manufacture nuclear weapons. Iran is certainly in a tricky spot because they understandably want to be recognized as a superpower by developing nuclear weapons, but it risks covert infiltration by the CIA.
My connection to the class that I drew was when we discussed the global systems, like multipolar system, bipolar system, and unipolar system, all of them corresponding to the number of global players. As of right now, the United States and China are the two contenders in our current bipolar system. However, if Iran doesn’t abide by the rules of the proposed nuclear deal or doesn’t accept, and the United States leaves them unchecked, we could see the emergence of a multipolar system, between Iran, the United States, and China. Multipolar systems typically never work out and lead to world wide conflicts, like World War 1 and 2. Multipolar systems will also lead to mutually assured destruction credited to the invention of nuclear weapons, so preventing Iranian nuclear manufacturing should be a pretty high priority.