The US is facing a crisis that resembles the https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2008/2/29/the-1956-suez-war that led to the decline of the UK’s colonial powers in the Middle East, according to a former senior US diplomat who served as ambassador to Tunisia.
“The British won tactically; they lost strategically – and they had to hand over security responsibility in the region to the United States,” Joey Hood told Al Jazeera. “And now it’s Iran’s turn to receive that regional security responsibility from the United States.”
Negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz could “be done in an hour”, Hood said, with assurances that Iran would reopen the waterway and that mines would be removed from the main shipping lanes.
But the more complex demands include working out the level of sanctions relief Iran may receive, as well as its nuclear file.
“The diplomat in me wants them to be very, very close, and for this to be on the road to a conclusion very, very quickly,” Hood said.
The US is facing a crisis that resembles the https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2008/2/29/the-1956-suez-war that led to the decline of the UK’s colonial powers in the Middle East, according to a former senior US diplomat who served as ambassador to Tunisia.
“The British won tactically; they lost strategically – and they had to hand over security responsibility in the region to the United States,” Joey Hood told Al Jazeera. “And now it’s Iran’s turn to receive that regional security responsibility from the United States.”
Negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz could “be done in an hour”, Hood said, with assurances that Iran would reopen the waterway and that mines would be removed from the main shipping lanes.
But the more complex demands include working out the level of sanctions relief Iran may receive, as well as its nuclear file.
“The diplomat in me wants them to be very, very close, and for this to be on the road to a conclusion very, very quickly,” Hood said.
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