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Mogherini understands the potential for EU co-op with Tehran

Politics Materials 28 July 2015 21:56 (UTC +04:00)
The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has joined the nuclear talks with Iran as coordinator at the very late stage of negotiations, but she played, nevertheless, a crucial role to lead...
Mogherini understands the potential for EU co-op with Tehran

By Reza Taghizadeh, expert on nuclear issues

The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has joined the nuclear talks with Iran as coordinator at the very late stage of negotiations, but she played, nevertheless, a crucial role to lead it to a successful accord which was signed at the end in Vienna, despite the lack of experiences she had in her new job.

Using nuclear negotiations with Iran as a template, seems have encouraged Mogherini to employ it as a successful model in dealing with other regional crisis in the Middle East.

Before travelling to Tehran and holding talks with Iran Foreign Minister, Javazd Zarif, she visited Riyadh and conferred with Al-Jubeir, the Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, in an effort to find a solution for Syria's crises.

There is no doubt that combating the Islamic extremists fighters in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria, needs contributions and closer cooperation between the region's major powers. Therefore, it was widely expected that such issue at the top of her discussions in Riyadh and Tehran, despite the differences that exists between Iran and the Saudi Arabia with regards to the ongoing crisis in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain.

During a joint press conference with Mogherini in Tehran, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed that cooperation with EU community to approach the regional issues are the next on line to deal with after the nuclear negotiations with 5+1 group succeeded on July 14.

Prior to Mogherini visit to Tehran, Zarif has spent a few days in the Persian Gulf region and had multi-purpose talks with his counterparts in Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq.

Since the recent nuclear negotiation has opened a new chapter in the course of Iran and the EU relations, guiding the Vienna agreement to its first crucial stage and facilitation a smooth transition towards the stage in which the IAEA could ratify implementation of the agreement by Iran, must be the most important part of Mogherini's mission to Tehran, despite the significance of the regional crisis.

With massive oil and gas deposites, on the one hand and 80 million population on the other, that creates a huge consuming market, Iran can not only be an energy partner to Europe but also an economic market for the European exporters. Ms. Mogherini understands the potential for EU cooperation with Tehran and is there to find way to explore it.

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