Iran’s road to liberation from the sanctions after the decision of the problems with the Iranian nuclear program (INP) was long and arduous. It would seem that after reaching the known arrangement of six world powers with Tehran on July 14, 2015 all had to go like clockwork.
Indeed, at one time it seemed. On January 16 this year, the parties announced the initiation of a Joint comprehensive plan of action – AGREEMENT. Iran got access to his frozen in the West assets, which are valued at around $ 50 billion. Tehran has now been allowed to buy oil, steel, gold, coal, pistachios, cars. Were lifted sanctions against the Central Bank. Made possible the delivery of passenger planes to Iran. Then in January they had a deal on delivery to this country of 118 Airbus 27 billion., and in June it became known about the transaction regarding the sale of the Iranians have “Boeing” in the amount of $ 20 billion.
While all acknowledged that Iran complies with its end of the deal on the Iranian nuclear program, fulfills all requirements for verification and monitoring by the IAEA, dismantle centrifuges, have frozen work on its heavy water reactor in Arak, maintains inventory levels of heavy water at the permitted level and adheres to the agreed levels of uranium enrichment on quantitative and qualitative indicators. All three of the IAEA report, which appeared in January of this year, confirms the correctness of Iran to its obligations.
However, in June, something went wrong and beginning to spark. The Supreme spiritual leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: “If someone once believed the Americans then received from them”… “the Experience of negotiations on nuclear matters has shown that even if we compromise, the United States does not stop playing a destructive role”.
In the West, made big eyes and began to assert that Iran de wants too much. The West, they say, their part of the transaction executes and adheres to the letter of agreements. A statement, Ali Khamenei – part of the internal Iranian struggle between hardliners and “reformers” to whom in the West consider Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. Anyway, if Iran wants to get from the Western countries, he must first deal with its opaque financial system, fight corruption, etc.
However, the anger of the Iranians is clear. As shown, the sanctions against Tehran were lifted only partially. Thus, the American Finance Minister Jacob Lew said this summer that the United States will continue to use the policy of sanctions against Iran. He stressed that the agreement “concerns the nuclear sphere and does not address problems in other areas where Iran’s behavior remains unacceptable.” He did not specify what they mean, and that leaves room for interpretation and extension to new conditions.
Recall that from 2007 to 2014, the US systematically and systematically, almost every year has introduced extensive unilateral sanctions against Iran, which included a ban on cooperation with numerous oil, energy and insurance companies governed by the government of Iran. Moreover, the sanctions cover tens (up to 60) European and international companies working in the field of Iranian shipping, as well as hundreds of Iranian citizens and their property. In addition, sanctions were imposed on Iranian airline Iran Air, the Central Bank of Iran, Bank Tejarat and even Dubai and the Venezuelan-Iranian banks, which allegedly helped Tehran evade sanctions, 50 financial companies and funds, as well as the National Iranian tanker company.” The sanctions have affected Chinese and UAE firms allegedly collaborated with Iran, which was accused of violating sanctions imposed on Iran’s nuclear programme and rocket science.
To be clear, note that the American sanctions are divided into two parts: introduced in connection with Iran’s nuclear program and other. So different, allegedly imposed because of Iran’s development of missile technologies, a much broader so-called nuclear sanctions and are duplex in nature. The first layer prohibits American companies and citizens to interact with the Iranian regime, but a few strictly controlled areas – food, medicine, and civil Airliners. Any transaction that passes through a U.S. Bank, insurance company, using the dollar or involves an American citizen, is theoretically subject to sanctions. This creates a chilling effect even for non-us firms, as it did with the BNP-Pаribas, who received from US a fine for $ 9 billion. in attempts to circumvent sanctions.
Second level: the United States reserves the right to punish foreign companies if they do business with those people or institutions that are in the us sanctions list, such as Islamic revolutionary guard Corps”.
While the Americans are evil, saying that Iran’s claim allegedly provoked a split between hardliners and moderates. The same Hassan Rouhani after Iran’s spiritual leader said on 13 July that the Islamic Republic can recover elements of its nuclear program, if the nuclear deal does not fulfill its obligations. So in Iran there is a unity in regard to this topic.
The claims of the Iranians is clear: the West takes some sanctions, but leaves others who, although they are formally outside of the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program and SVPD, in fact I cover the country in such a stranglehold that can devalue all the other achievements, implemented within the framework of the Iranian nuclear program. Thus, Western European companies and banks, as horrified to find the Iranians, do not want to invest in their country until I get ironclad guarantee Washington that they have not followed the American financial and other reprisals.
That Iran perceives such pressure is very serious, it became clear after the start of the regular 71st session of the UN General Assembly in new York. Speaking on it, the President of Iran said “the US should realize that the Joint comprehensive plan of action (SVPD) is a multilateral agreement. The failure recorded in it of the obligations would further undermine the reputation of the United States in the world,” and “demonstrated in recent months, the United States approach to the implementation of obligations under the AGREEMENT are erroneous and should be immediately corrected.
As evidence of Rouhani led the U.S. Supreme court’s decision on the imposition of “unlawful arrest or detention to billions of dollars in assets belonging to the Iranian nation.”
I must say that in Europe, albeit timidly, but trying to oppose the Americans. Thus, on 22 September the EU announced that Iran has complied with the terms of the agreement, which was concluded last year in the six-party talks. At the meeting of the six countries participating in the negotiations and Iran in the framework of the annual meeting of world leaders at the UN, the EU high representative for foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini said, according to the General opinion, the agreement is applied in practice: “We all realized the political and historical importance of this Treaty, which showed the world and ourselves that the most complex issues can be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy.
The EU is now experiencing not the best times from the point of view of economy and ready to lobby (though very timidly) to Iranian interests, hoping to get out on the bulk of the Iranian market. However, Iran has not only well-wishers. His return from diplomatic, political and economic exclusion are very concerned about the Gulf countries, especially Saudi Arabia. See there in Tehran is not only a powerful rising economic power, but primarily expansionist, militaristic power, which possessed Imperial ambitions and are willing to use the Shiite factor to promote their interests in the region.
With January this year, that is, from the time of removal from Iran of the main part of international sanctions Riyadh has launched a powerful international company in order to discredit Iran and to put him back into a state of isolation and sanctions, but now for a different reason – as a sponsor of terrorism and a country that maintains a destructive force in the region, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. He secured the condemnation of Iran by the number of regional international organizations in which it dominates – the Arab League, OIC, GCC.
While as a whole at the international level, Saudi arguments did not lead to the return of the sanctions regime against Iran, despite the fact that the Minister of foreign Affairs, KSA Adel Jubayr 18 September, immediately prior to Rouhani speech at the regular session of the UN, published an article in The Wall Street Journal, which accused Tehran of all these sins, adding the support of “al-Qaeda”!
In Riyadh, you know, that all this is not enough to turn the US and Western European countries from the policy of normalization with Tegernau and work closely in the framework of the presidential campaign in the United States and in Congress, to push, if possible, if not a rejection of the nuclear deal, the tightening of U.S. unilateral sanctions against Iran, and even if it does not, then at least save them.
It should be noted that the hopes the Saudis are not so groundless. Both candidates in US presidents in Iran are extremely wary. For Riyadh in whatever was needed to win Hillary Clinton, who, they expect, uncompromising will lead US, and with them the rest of the West in the direction of tightening of the line against Tehran, the Saudis have invested heavily in the campaign of the Democrats.
And, then, about the end of this story so far. The next round immediately after the election of the President of the United States.
