(MENAFN)Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Ian set to be total failure “we must hope” the discussions in Vienna to invigorate the nuclear deal will succeed, stated Former European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
Solana stated in an article in the Project Syndicate that “We must hope that they succeed because Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ proved to be a resounding failure.”
Solana that was NATO secretary general from 1995-1999 and led the 5+1 nuclear discussions with Iran for certain years also condemned Trump’s “ill-advised strategy” toward the 2015 nuclear deal, stating that, “In international relations, the perfect is the enemy of the good, and illusions are not a useful yardstick.”
Diplomacy was the only sensible way to tackle US Iranian tensions. However; when foreign policy rides on emotional currents and succumbs to gimmicky temptations, wise and subtle statecraft is demoted to the background.
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