After escalation of siege: Signs of Iranian fear from Poland’s expected summit
Tuesday 15/January/2019 - 03:00 PM
Mohamed Shaat
The reactions of Iran to the fact that Washington will hold a summit in Poland
on Iran on February 13-14 reveal the fears of the mullahs from the convening of
this summit, which appeared in many official statements and the words of
Iranian officials. This comes especially as the American move comes within the
framework of more international rally against Iranian interference and
violations.
Iran's reactions to the announcement of the summit did not differ from the
reaction to the change in the European position, which began to issue sanctions
after Tehran's involvement in the implementation of terrorist acts on European
soil.
Public threats
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called the summit, which the United States
announced in February in Poland on the Middle East and Iran, "a desperate
play."
Zarif said, “We remind the hosts of the anti-Iran conference and its
participants that those who attended the previous American anti-Iranian offer,
either died or became stigmatized or marginalized. Iran is stronger than ever.
"
"While Iran saved the Poles in World War II, Poland is now hosting a
desperate display of anti-Iranian propaganda," Zarif said. Zarif published
a picture of the leaders who participated in a summit on countering terrorism
in the Middle East in 1996 in Sharm el-Sheikh and pictures of Iran's support
for Poland.
American escalation
The researcher on Iranian affairs, Osama al-Hitimi, says in an exclusive
statement to the Reference, “I believe that the intention of Washington to hold
this conference in conjunction with the commemoration of fortieth anniversary
of the Iranian revolution in 1979 confirms that the US administration realized
that Iran has already succeeded in easing these sanctions, which is evident in
many ways.
The most prominent of these is the
introduction by Rouhani government to the new budget of 2019, including the
selling of about a million barrels of oil per day, despite the US talk of
straining Iran's oil exports. This has prompted the US administration to exert
more efforts to clamp down on the Iranian regime and fill the loopholes, most
of which are to enable Iran to play the polarization situation in the region
and continue cooperation with some countries in the region and circumvent
sanctions.
He pointed out that the American move also comes as a result of Iran's
continued defiance of the US administration as Iran has not shown until the
moment any flexibility on the level of any file, but on the contrary, “all we
have seen in recent times is further escalation, which may embarrass the US
administration and put it in a weak position, losing the ability to control
things, including recently Rouhani’s announcement of Iran's launch of missiles
carrying satellites in the coming weeks.
Al-Hitimi stressed that Iran's greatest fear of holding such a conference might
be to push the European side to abandon its commitments in terms of its
abidance by the nuclear agreement and to work towards finding a mechanism for
the continuation of trade cooperation between Europe and Iran.
He added that Iran fears that this conference will result in strong and tough
mechanisms in dealing with Iran's loopholes to circumvent the sanctions, which
will force Iran to comply with American dictates and accept the resumption of
negotiations according to the American agenda. Iran will intensify its
diplomatic and non-diplomatic efforts in the coming days and until the date of
the conference which will be held in mid-February, the researcher believed.
