Former Iranian FM Zarif outlines a diplomatic path.

West Asia stands at a risk turning point. The horrors that are revealed in Gaza, and the last aggression against Iran, but the Iranian people and their armed forces climbed, and explains the continuing destabilization in Syria in blatant terms that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his global empowerment materials, and the only existential threat is peace and calm. This association with Israel from the internal apartheid and the permanent regional conflict threatens the foundations of regional and global orders. While strong defense is necessary, a permanent solution requires a bold diplomatic initiative, a historical transformation of Iran and the region from the depth threat model to the Tamkeen capabilities model, including: expanding relations with neighbors and global southern countries, a new regional partnership between Muslim Western Asia, and a renewed dialogue with Europe and the United States.

For a long time now, the countries in the region were besieged in conflict sessions and lost opportunities. Falsifying the future of various vision, courage and a conscious decision to liberate from historical inevitability requires. For Iran, this transformation begins locally and radiates abroad in its life. After it was able to prove that it is not easy to prey and can reserve itself against two nuclear armed aggressors, Iran has the ability to make this critical transition from an approach focusing on facing permanent threats to the other that focuses on the chances of exploitation. It is not only feasible, but it is deeply in the interest of Iran, the region and the global community. Achieving this requires the fixed local determination and not the external conference; Patured necessarily with ethics or international law, but simply by self -interest.

West Asia stands at a risk turning point. The horrors that are revealed in Gaza, and the last aggression against Iran, but the Iranian people and their armed forces climbed, and explains the continued destabilization of Syria in flagrant terms that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his global empowerment materials, and the only existential threat is peace and calm. This association with Israel from the internal apartheid and the permanent regional conflict threatens the foundations of regional and global orders. While strong defense is necessary, a permanent solution requires a bold diplomatic initiative, a historical transformation of Iran and the region from the depth threat model to the Tamkeen capabilities model, including: expanding relations with neighbors and global southern countries, a new regional partnership between Muslim Western Asia, and a renewed dialogue with Europe and the United States.

For a long time now, the countries in the region were besieged in conflict sessions and lost opportunities. Falsifying the future of various vision, courage and a conscious decision to liberate from historical inevitability requires. For Iran, this transformation begins locally and radiates abroad in its life. After it was able to prove that it is not easy to prey and can reserve itself against two nuclear armed aggressors, Iran has the ability to make this critical transition from an approach focusing on facing permanent threats to the other that focuses on the chances of exploitation. It is not only feasible, but it is deeply in the interest of Iran, the region and the global community. Achieving this requires the fixed local determination and not the external conference; Patured necessarily with ethics or international law, but simply by self -interest.

Iran’s first possibility in its people. Thousands of years of history attest to their unusual flexibility. The invaders occupied Iranian territory, but they were always absorbed in permanent culture and were never able to impose their values on the Iranian people. This flexibility is the decisive factor that confuses the outwardly outstanding enemies, from the invasion of Iraq in 1980 (backed by global powers) to the last Gambie Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. This is why four decades of the so -called maximum pressure and broken penalties have failed to achieve their goals.

Despite the unprecedented global restrictions – the Security Council resolutions of the United Nations Security Council to the intention of exporting intentionally designed to strangle Iran’s technological progress – the Iranian people have domesticated scientific and technological progress, especially in the field of defense and nuclear energy. Thus, the Iranian people are not subjects to be restricted. Rather, the basic principle in the country is enabled, carried out and allowed to prosper.

Iran’s second vital pillar of the possibility is alive. With the borders of 15 countries, Iran sits at a unique European crossroads. More importantly, the region shares deep and unbreakable historical and cultural relations for centuries by Iranian, Sufi poets, philosophers and scholars. These ties have borne bonds, invasions, and turmoil.

However, real regional cooperation remained out of reach. In my contract as an Iranian diplomat, I participated in developing initiatives that are constantly undermining the form of doubt and threats. From the Persian Gulf Security proposals during the Iran and Iraq war, to the cooperation advertisements that were unknown with the neighbors of the tour on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf in the wake of the invasion of Iraq from Kuwait in 1990, and then for the Notelgue Notelgue like NOMPAGERAND, Hormuz Peade Endain is atomic research and progress, all these initiatives stumbled due to mutual lack of confidence.

But the recent escalations by Israel created a new awareness of the common weakness in the region. There is now a decisive chance window. Iran, along with Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen – are expanding concretely to Pakistan, Central Asia, and shrubs – which start from this moment. Under the umbrella of the United Nations, we can formulate a new group based on a strategic axis from turning to one of the synergy. Joint energy corridors, non -spread frameworks, nuclear cooperation frameworks, economic cooperation, and cultural unity can become joint prosperity engines.

Through the perspective of this possibilities, Iran, to Russia and Turkey can look at the last agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Washington, not a threat, but as an opportunity – an opportunity to revive the previously proposed cooperation in the Caucasus between Iran, Russia and Turkey, along with Armenia, Azerbajan, and Georgia. The new agreement provides a global context that makes our regional initiative for 2019 more feasible and sustainable. It will provide unique investment opportunities for the private sector in the United States and other countries.

Perhaps the third column, which includes global diplomacy, is the most challenge to Iran in view of disappointment due to its previous experiences. However, I believe a firm belief Iran and the international community in existential interest in overcoming these experiences and falsifying a different future.

Iran has made great contributions to global stability over the decades. As a founding member of the United Nations, it sponsored prominent initiatives: the 1974 proposal to the weapons -free nuclear Middle East, “Dialogue between Civilizations” in 1997, and the joint comprehensive work plan for 2015 (JCPOA). Traveling, the major powers in the world have undergone these Iranian initiatives.

The historical style is Stark: the West’s aggressive response to Iran’s nationalization in 1951, and reached its climax in the 1953 coup; Her support for Saddam Hussein’s aggression against Iran in 1980; Its actions enable Israel to possess hundreds of nuclear warheads; Putting signs on Iran as part of the “Axis of Evil” in 2002, despite Iranian cooperation after 11/9; And a misleading information campaign uncomfortable against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program. Ironically, this attack was led by Israel, which refused to sign the treaty for the non -spread of nuclear weapons, and it is known that it has secretly developed a large nuclear arsenal.

The JCPOA epic summarizes the unreasonable promises of diplomacy. Throughout the world, it was welcomed as a diplomatic victory in 2015. But Trump’s decision to withdraw from the agreement three years later was severely affected by the belief in diplomacy inside Iran. Besides overwhelming sanctions, the recent European step to summon the conflict resolution mechanism in JCPOA amid Israeli attacks on Iranian facilities is very satirized. Europe systematically failed to honor the Security Council obligations and the United Nations Security Council for seven years. The basic deal – economic normalization of the verified nuclear compliance – was destroyed – when the United States withdrew and Europe has proven unable or unwilling to implement primitive economic mechanisms such as proposed Instex, a vehicle aimed at overcoming US sanctions.

Iran, which faces non -compliance by the United States and E3 – Britan, Germany, and France – brilliantly required the treatment measures of JCPOA from 2017 to 2021. Instead of supporting diplomacy, E3 was backed by Israeli military attacks in Iran in June, with German adviser Friedrich Merz. The support of the war in Europe is followed by resorting to resolving the diplomatic conflicts of the nuclear deal – for the same goals that the war failed to achieve – has shattered Iranian respect for diplomacy.

Looking at this heavy historical luggage, obtaining the Iranian people and their government to believe in the validity of diplomacy will be a challenge. However, the alternative – the path of wars forever – leads unbearable to regional cutting, outbiting extremism, and the chaos sweeping West Asia and outside. It risks the completion of the United States and the West to a quagmire with historical dimensions.

The United States and Europe – and not only Iran – raises existential attention to encourage the transformation of the model that has been discussed above. By choosing war even when negotiations were ongoing, they criticized the door for diplomacy. They are now responsible for changing the path if they expect the treatment of Iranian ideals. Iran, too, has a lot to gain it-and a tremendous difficulty to avoid-by engaging in a multi-dimensional, aspiration, directed towards results. The path to the front may include the formation of a regional network for peace and peaceful nuclear cooperation, as well as an unlikely agreement for other than Iran.

We cannot ignore the past, and we should not stop learning from it. But we must refuse to be imprisoned due to previous failures. Otherwise, we are chasing ourselves to an endless episode of disasters.

Warm are flourishing to close any diplomacy window. We must deprive them of the opportunity to consolidate the devastating threat model and extinguishing hope. The crossroads here. The choice of Iran, the region and the global authorities is clear: more catastrophic past, or courage to build a future together. It’s time to turn the model now.