U.S. and Iranian Experts Offer Concrete Steps Toward Agreement
Leading Harvard researchers from the United States and Iran have joined forces to develop a plan aimed at resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis. Abbas Maleki, director-general of the International Institute for Caspian Studies and a former deputy foreign minister of Iran, and Matthew Bunn, a former non-proliferation adviser in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, assert that " any viable solution needs to meet all sides’ bottom lines," and they lay out specific steps to do that. Bunn is a senior research associate with the Managing the Atom Project, and Maleki is a senior research fellow with the Energy Technology Innovation Project and the International Security Program.
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Finding a Way Out of the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
Abbas Maleki and Matthew Bunn
As the UN Security Council debates Iran's nuclear program, a whiff of confrontation is in the air. Iran is a proud country with a tradition of resistance to foreign pressure and is likely to respond better to serious offers than to what it sees as blackmail. In response to Security Council sanctions, Iran might carry out its threat to pull out of nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Military strikes, and the inevitable Iranian responses, pose incalculable risks for all concerned. All sides need to look hard for new proposals to resolve the crisis before confrontation becomes inevitable. ...
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