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De-escalating the Iran crisis : is there a role for Europe?
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Policy Briefs; 2020/07; Middle East Directions (MED)
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DIVSALLAR, Abdolrasool, De-escalating the Iran crisis : is there a role for Europe?, Policy Briefs, 2020/07, Middle East Directions (MED) - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66185
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US-Iran military tension and Europe’s uneasy job running the JCPOA dispute resolution mechanism displays a complicated path to resolve Iran crisis. How can the E3/EU contain the crisis below a manageable threshold? What could be done if the dispute resolution mechanism fails to produce positive results? E3/EU countries need to adopt an inclusive de-escalatory strategy and combine it with nuclear diplomacy. This strategy should incorporate military and security confidence-building measures at its core accompanied by active regional diplomacy and an extension of EU-Iran relations into the developmental and humanitarian dimensions. This paper explores such a de-escalatory strategy and provides clear policy recommendations.