DUBAI: Iran’s former top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested that Iran should now “use its upper hand” to make a ceasefire deal in a proposal published Friday in Foreign Affairs.
Zarif, the former foreign minister who helped reach the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, wrote that Tehran “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.”
Zarif suggested Iran could enrich uranium below 3.67 percent, the level set by the 2015 nuclear deal US President Donald Trump pulled America out of in 2018.
However, Trump has maintained Iran must have no enrichment.
Zarif also suggested the inclusion of China and Russia in any deal to do a single uranium enrichment site for all of the region, where Iran “would transfer all its enriched material and equipment to that space.”
