The Iran-Arab relations needs rethinking
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, international affairs expert says: "in my opinion, Mr. Amr Musa must first make it clear that how the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program would remain unresolved if Arabs weren’t involved."
Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Musa has stated that Iran and Arab countries must sit at the table of negotiations and try to resolve regional disputes, including Iran’s nuclear program. Meanwhile, Sheikh Khalifeh bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of UAE, had said that Iran’s participation is needed for agreements and reaching a collective decision.
Dr. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, internatoinal affairs experts says: "in my opinion, Mr. Amr Musa must first make it clear that how the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program would remain unresolved if Arabs weren’t involved."
President of Urosevic Research Foundation believes that Iran’s nuclear program is United States’ self-created problem, not a really existing issue. U.S. decided to turn Iran’s nuclear program into a crisis, despite 14 official reports by IAEA confirming Iran’s non deviation.
While Iran-Arab relations have entered a new climate these days and both sides have taken stances, commenting on Amr Musa’s remarks, this geopolitics professor of Tarbiat Modarres University said that if Amr Musa believed he could solve this strategic, geopolitical, or psycho-political problem of U.S., then there was no need to engage Iran and set meetings to show his craft. Amr Musa should do this alone.
On Iran-Arab relations Mojtahedzadeh believes that the current situation was the result of Arab League’s suit against Iran in the United Nations (on UAE’s baseless claims over the Iranian Triple Islands) and the situation was getting worse.
Iranians definitely want their statesmen to revise their relations with Arab countries, this university professor stated. Iran has sacrificed all it had for Arabs and now they are suing Iran in the United Nations, even those who are still rejoicing Iran’s all-out aids.
Dr. Mojtahedzadeh deems the problems rooted in Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Iranians have created the current situation due to their one-sided love policy. One-sided love has no happy ending even between two inidividuals, let alone it be two culturally different worlds, that of Iranians and Arabs."
Dr. Mojtahedzadeh also said that in his opinion it was time for Abu Musa to ponder on some questions:
1. Will the current situation continue to exist?
2. Who is the culprit for the current situation?
3. What are his offers if he wants to start talks with Iran and solve the problem?
On the other hand, Arab countries have expressed their concern over Iran’s increasing influence in the region. Deeming that as irrelevant, Dr. Mojtahedzadeh said that in the world of politics, we deal with bittersweet realities, not with myths and imaginations.
The university professor reemphasized that what exists between Iran and Arabs is a one-sided love, and Iran’s reward in this one-sided love is Arabs’ insults, their suit, and the multitude of concoctions to disrespect our territorial integrity, our sovereignty and our national identity. He added that: "as an Iranian, I truely want our government to thoroughly revise its principles of relations with Arabs and I seriously want them to take out this task also in relation with other countries of the region."