Iran says will hold ‘high-level’ talks with EU

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini arrived for a one-day visit to discuss implementation of an agreement for Iran to curtail its nuclear program in return for lifting sanctions against the country, state TV reported. And it’s what keeps the Saudi leadership up at night. Zarif also traveled to Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq over the weekend, stressing on his tour Iran’s desire to improve regional relations. “However, promoting economic and trade relations is more accessible and easier”. Israel could not control the outcome of the talks over nuclear deal.

If Iran is truly to win over its neighbors, it will need to undertake monumental efforts both on its own and with others in the region, in order to put out the flames it has started all over the Middle East-most recently in Yemen. There is no reason to suppose that Iran would be able to pose a threat to Saudi Arabia of a type and magnitude that would conceivably require the deployment of nuclear weapons or indeed even conventional weapons.

So shame the “allies” and don’t give these dictators all the benefits they don’t deserve, don’t say he is a dictator but he is “OUR dictator”. “This gives us the potential to build on it”, said Mogherini.

Mogherini said implementation of the agreement “depends on the political will, commitment and patience of all parties involved…”

TEHRAN -France sought to revive its relations with Iran on Wednesday, extending an invitation to President Hassan Rohani to visit Paris in November, a gesture that follows this month’s historic nuclear deal.

Bahrain’s interior ministry claimed on Saturday it had foiled an arms smuggling plot by two Bahrainis with ties to Iran, while its foreign ministry announced the recall of its ambassador to Tehran for consultations after what it said were repeated hostile Iranian statements. They know that the Iranian air force is weak and they can maintain a military superiority. Three major challenges could confront Pakistan as a effect of the nuclear deal.

As the agreement goes under a potentially bruising review in the US Congress, President Barack Obama has defended it as the best way to avoid nuclear proliferation and another conflict in the Middle East. Saudis remain concerned about Iran’s role in Iraq, in Syria, in Yemen.

Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, accompanying Zarif, said the goal of the tour was “strengthening ties and developing cooperation in all the fields” with Iran’s neighbors. Iran-Pakistan-Afghanistan cooperation to this end will help a great deal in curtailing the IS’ rising influence in the region.

Saudi Arabia is now leading an Arab coalition that is conducting airstrikes in Yemen in support of government loyalists fighting Shia Houthi rebels.

This unwritten implication of the nuclear talks is more important than all its written outcomes. Saudi Arabia may feel that it has to reappraise its defence policy and may begin pursuing the option of acquiring nuclear warheads.

While congressional opponents of the nuclear deal focus on the prospect of Iran cheating, “the region is anxious about what happens if Iran abides by it”, said Suzanne Dimaggio, director of the Iran Initiative at New America in New York.

Rowhani described the deal as a “message for peace in the world“. The six Gulf Cooperation Council countries collectively outspend Iran nearly 10 to 1, according to an April report from the Center for Strategic and global Studies in Washington.

The foreign policy chief’s agenda in Iran also included talks on setting up the dispute resolution mechanism foreseen by the nuclear deal that Iran struck with world powers in Vienna on July 14.