No military solution possible in Syria: Iran’s Zarif

According to a report from the Middle East Media Research Institute, the government daily Al-Riyadh published a call for a “road map” for building Saudi nuclear reactors “for peaceful purposes”. “The Iranian missile program is a legitimate defense program”, Zarif said.

In December, Senator Corker and ranking member Senator Ben Cardin announced the committee’s plan for vigorous oversight of the nuclear deal utilizing authority granted by the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act that became law previous year.

Jazayeri’s comments come after an announcement Sunday that the USA will apply new sanctions on several actors supporting Iran’s ballistic missile program.

“[Even] if we ignore the political and economic implications of this agreement for the region in the near and distant future, there is [nevertheless] one aspect of this agreement that must be taken into account”.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Tuesday pledged to confront Iran’s military ambitions and redo the nuclear deal signed with the Iranian regime last July on Day One by reestablishing a strong diplomatic and military relationship with Israel, as well as imposing additional sanctions on Iran.

Moreover, the Iraq-Syria file is in the hands of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, whose world view was shaped by Shiite Iran’s decade-long war with Sunni Iraq, in which he served on the front lines. “But what happens after 15 years…?”

But it also raises the controversial question of whether the deal will trigger a broader shift in U.S.-Iranian relations.

The Washington Post states: “Six months later, Obama made good on his pledge when Iran released five U.S. citizens, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, who spent 544 days in captivity”.

So has Obama been vindicated in his approach to Iran?

To this, President Obama stated that the swift release of the USA navy officers was proof of a new era of diplomacy that had been established with Iran.

He said a handful of European and Asian countries have expressed renewed interest in cooperating with Iran to help develop its nuclear industry.

If the western countries provide the needed investment, Iran will have no limitation for simultaneous construction of seven or eight nuclear power plants, Kamalvandi said, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported. This also means that across the world billions in frozen Iranian assets will become available.

“I think as time goes on it’s going to be harder because people are addicted to money”, he said.

“Regionally I think it sends a message that if we can resolve that something everybody thought was impossible to resolve, with countries who were – obviously at least Iran and the United States – were hostile for at least 37 years, then there’s no impediment in resolving regional issues”, Zarif said while addressing the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss city of Davos on Wednesday.

Iran tested ballistic missiles on October 10 and November 21, which were in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution that was adopted in 2010 that bans Iran from undertaking “any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using ballistic missile technology”. “The fallacy of saying, well, we’re just going to deal with the nuclear program and not deal with all the other elements that are as destabilizing as the nuclear agreement is just the wrong way to go”.