Brian Rowlands

Iranian Reports: Merchants in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad are offering 10 billion tomans ($30,000) for information on the downed U.S. pilot.

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Zarif the former Iranian foreign minister puts forward a sweeping peace plan. He may get pilloried inside Iran and who knows whether the US president will understand it. “Iran should offer to place limits on its nuclear program and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for an end to all sanctions—a deal Washington wouldn’t take before but might accept now. Iran should also be prepared to accept a mutual nonaggression pact with the United States in which both countries pledge to not strike each other in the future. It could offer economic interactions with the United States, which would be a win for both the American and the Iranian people.” On nuclear he repeats Iran offer made in Geneva to downblend highly enriched uranium stockpile. Proposes “China and Russia, together with the United States, could help establish a fuel enrichment consortium with Iran and interested neighbors in the Persian Gulf, which should then become the sole fuel enrichment facility for West Asia. Iran would transfer all its enriched material and equipment to that space. As another regional component of the peace plan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen—together with permanent members of the Security Council and possibly Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey—should begin cooperating on a regional security network to ensure nonaggression, cooperation, and freedom of navigation throughout West Asia.”