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By Shahriar Kia<\/p>\n
Most state media platforms show hopelessness in JCPOA\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
According to the Nuclear Policy Specialist and former Iranian Ambassador in Germany \u2013 Hossein Mousavian \u2013 JCPOA \u201cis currently in the emergency room and in coma\u201d. (December 1st 2018; Mardom Salari Newspaper).<\/p>\n
Hassan Rouhani and his government are making every effort to bring JCPOA out of this coma and back to normal, but the Europe\u2019s proposed mechanism proves to be inefficient in fighting off US Sanctions.<\/p>\n
Truth is, Europe doesn\u2019t hold much power to handle US sanctions, and the inefficiency of its proposed mechanism has also been acknowledged by the regime itself!<\/p>\n
Arman Newspaper (which is in affiliation with Rouhani\u2019s government) recently published a segment titled \u201cthe European mechanism is somewhat limited\u201d, describing that \u201cFrance, England and Germany, are attempting to maintain their JCPOA agreements for security and political reasons. Due to the inefficiency of their current mechanism, they\u2019re looking for an improved newer version\u2026 but their proposed idea does not sound all that feasible\u201d. (December 1st 2018; Arman)<\/p>\n
According to Arman Newspaper, the proposed mechanism doesn\u2019t have the capacity to fight US sanctions and even if so, it will have certain limitations. In other words, any ongoing trades with Iran will have to be goods for goods or oil for food. Either way, it won\u2019t help the regime overcome any of its political or economic challenges.<\/p>\n
Keyhan Newspaper, which is also affiliated with Khamenei recently commented in this regard, labelling the new mechanism as \u201ca new hat for Iran\u2019s financial channel, minus the oil!\u201d, expanding that \u201cafter 7 whole months of waiting, we\u2019re now told that the proposed mechanism of Europe which we don\u2019t even know the exact commencement date for, won\u2019t be covering our oil at all\u201d. (December 1st 2018)<\/p>\n
In another article titled \u201cEurope lied to us for 8 months and is still lying now\u201d, which refers to the interview of Abbas Araghchi and Japan\u2019s Kyodo News, it\u2019s mentioned that \u201cthe economic benefits of JCPOA have dropped for Iran. And if they continue to do so, the agreement will eventually \u2018die out\u2019, meaning that Europe\u2019s efforts will be ultimately useless\u201d.<\/p>\n
Araghchi\u2019s confession clearly indicates that even if Europe\u2019s mechanism is successfully implemented, it still won\u2019t have much economic use for Iran\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n
According to Javan Newspaper, Zarif and his deputy \u201chave slowly been changing their political ways towards Europe\u201d, and \u201cincreasingly criticising European ideas\u201d (December 1st 2018).<\/p>\n
In summary, the idea that JCPOA is in coma proves to be true; the \u2018open wounds\u2019 between Europe\u2019s theoretical claims and practical actions is at a very deadly stage now, in other words, their lack of an efficient plan is jeopardising the very same agreement that they\u2019re meant to protect, i.e., the JCPOA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Shahriar Kia Most state media platforms show hopelessness in JCPOA’s future. According to the Nuclear Policy Specialist and former Iranian Ambassador in Germany – Hossein Mousavian – JCPOA “is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-25602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nuclear","8":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"\n