Oman’s foreign minister, and the mediator in the US Iran nuclear talks, has claimed the US will not achieve as much through war as it could have achieved in the peace talks.
Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi was speaking to Omani reporters in Muscat and appears to challenge the premise that the war is about Iran’s nuclear program, arguing it was designed to weaken Iran politically.
In the official account of the meeting it is said “in describing the background of the war, the minister stated that the decision was not fundamentally linked to the Iranian nuclear program”.
He noted that recent negotiations had reached a very advanced stage, including an Iranian pledge not to possess nuclear material capable of producing a bomb, a commitment not to accumulate or store enriched materials and to convert existing stockpiles into irreversible fuel.
He emphasised that the United States could not have obtained greater concessions through war than those achieved through negotiation.
An important intervention from Oman's FM. No greater concessions could be achieved through war than via negotiation. Instead of a deal we have a regional crisis and Britain being dragged into another illegal US-led war.
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