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16 Whitehead J. Dipl. & Int'l Rel. 101 (2014-2015)
P5+1 - Iran Nuclear Agreement - A Silver Lining in US - Iran Relations

handle is hein.journals/whith16 and id is 279 raw text is: P5+1 - Iran Nuclear Agreement - A Silver Lining in US-Iran Relations by Simi Mehta N egotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council over the former's nuclear weapons program began in 2006. While these talks remain inconclusive and ineffective, the subsequent imposition of strict economic and financial sanctions against Iran continues to cripple its economy. The epicenter of all contention has been Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and its alleged covert production of nuclear weapons, which the Islamic Republic has consistently denied. In 2004, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa, or Islamic legal pronouncement, against nuclear weapons, calling them haram (forbidden). The Ayatollah decreed the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons forbidden under Islam, stating the Islamic Republic of Iran would never acquire these weapons. Despite all attempts by Iran to present to the world a nuclear program that exists for civilian purposes only, dark clouds of skepticism and distrust persisted in Western minds, and the 2010 UN Security Council resolution, 1929, required Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program in order to stop proliferation of nuclear weapons. April 2, 2015, bore witness to a silver lining amid mutual resentment and hostility after two years of marathon negotiations the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action-a preliminary agreement regarding Iran's nuclear program with the permanent members (P5) of the United Nations Security Council and Germany-was realized at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.! June 30, 2015, will serve as its final deadline for agreement. This compromise between the progressive and traditional cultures represented by the P5 and Iran respectively has been hailed as historic and unprecedented This deal showcases an aspect of diplomacy whereby both sides seem pragmatic enough to keep their pride and ego at a distance, ready to accept what is 'least worst' for them.2 This is in line with the Robert Keohane's explanation that while there is a Simi Mehta is a Ph.D. scholar at the American Studies Division of the Centre for Canadian, United States and Latin American Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi. She can be reached at simimehta.08@gmail.com. 101 Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

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