Nuclear Deal Could Open US-Iran Cooperation Against ISIS, Ex-Officials Say
As international negotiators approach next week’s self-imposed deadline
for reaching a compromise to let Iran pursue a nuclear program, US and
French former officials told Atlantic Council forums this week that a
deal could offer new advantages in the Middle East.
An
agreement could create an opportunity for a US-Iranian “open
relationship” on confronting militant threats in Iraq and Afghanistan,
Ambassador Thomas Pickering told a November 19 forum at the Council in
Washington. “For the first time, the United States and Iran have gotten
down to the wire, along with our European and Russian and Chinese
colleagues, to something that could in one way or another generate, if
not a sea change, certainly a major shift in the situation in the
region,” said Pickering, a former undersecretary of state for political
affairs.
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