Fears of an escalation in the Middle East grow. The head of the Munich security conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, has now proposed an international peace conference to avert the danger of war.
Wolfgang Ischinger, since more than ten years, the Munich security conference, the now world-leading Forum for foreign and security policy issues. And earlier Ischinger was also quite the practical diplomacy on the road, as the German Ambassador in London and Washington. Therefore, it was Germany’s biggest tabloid, the “Bild-Zeitung”, a message on the first page of value, which has table proposed Inger and now: German Chancellor Angela Merkel would work together with the political leaders in France, Britain, the United States, with China and Russia for an international peace conference to defuse the looming conflict between Iran and the United States.
“Perhaps the last Chance for diplomacy”
Such a summit came into being, then it will consider “the Iranian President certainly twice, such a conversation happens,” said Ischinger the sheet. The danger of an escalation, he values very highly: “There is a small spark or a military failure is sufficient, perhaps, already understanding, to bring the whole thing to explode.” Apparently, there is also in Washington have very different views on whether further escalation is really useful, added Ischinger. “Another armed conflict in the Gulf, with tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers, many do not want this. This is a Chance for diplomacy, perhaps the last, to rescue the Iran deal.”
Nouripour: “Everything leads to war.”
The conflict was sparked recently due to the fact that Iran parts of the nuclear-feels Deals with the United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany, not bound. The United States, which had denounced the Treaty one year before, have exacerbated this is why the sanctions and their military presence in the Region. And therefore, the foreign policy expert of the Green group in the Bundestag, Omid Nouripour, that Europe urgently needs to be actively thinks about. Ischingers Initiative was a good one: “Any proposal to end the silence between Iran and the United States, is a good suggestion. All other leads in the war,” said Nouripour in an interview with DW.
Prior to three and a half years in Vienna: agreement on the Iran nuclear agreement
Brok: “What is there to be negotiated?”
In fact, had become as early as Thursday during a debate in the German Bundestag shows that many of the Foreign experts for almost all parties hold the threat of war for non-low. The CDU MEP Elmar Brok, looks so. However, he is sceptical as to whether Ischingers Initiative could really have success, even if a Meeting takes place. He told DW: “What is there to be negotiated? The United States says: The nuclear deal is useless, Iran has yet to give way in other areas. And Iran says: We don’t make the nuclear deal and other things.”
Above all, the sanctions and the US pressure on European companies to do not trade with Tehran, would have made the situation now is so difficult, added Brok in Berlin: “The Western trade with Iran has shrunk in the first half of the year by over 50 percent. This is dramatically. If you look at the economic situation in Iran, it is clear that President Rouhani has the support of the hardliners.”
Europe must on both of the opposing sides to: external expert Daniela Schwarzer
The Director of the think-tank “of the German society for Foreign relations” (DGAP), Daniela Schwarzer, but actually Europe is now in the duty. The US and Iran would have brought in a strong Confrontational situation. And this means: “The Europeans would have to come very are investing heavily on both sides, to persuade them to a table. But it is not excluded, so diplomacy works,” said Black of the DW.
At the beginning of 2016, before the three and a half years, had entered the nuclear agreement with Iran will come into force after long negotiations. The core: The Iran moves its nuclear program, the West, China and Russia to abandon sanctions. Since then, the United States, but dropped out before a year from the Treaty, aggravated the conflict further and further.