After the JCPOA, we did not continue de-escalation
Palermo and CFT and finally resolving the FATF case was a complementary step that should have been taken after the JCPOA
Sadegh Zibakalam, professor of political science at Haammihan:
Palermo and CFT and finally resolving the FATF case was a complementary step that should have been taken after the JCPOA, but this did not happen. In fact, we showed that nothing has changed here and there is no de-escalation. Because the JCPOA had created expectations.
It showed that there are changes going on and that there is supposed to be a de-escalation with the West and that previous policies and issues that caused friction will be adjusted, but the domestic extremists showed that nothing has changed and the same path is going on.
I believe that if October 7 and all the fundamental changes did not happen after that and the geometry of the Middle East did not change, we would still not have seen Iran join these two conventions.
If Iraq and Iraqi groups did not revise some of their relations with Iran, if the Lebanese government followed the same path as before, or if Mr. Assad still ruled in Syria, the possibility of joining these conventions would still be ruled out, but we have reached this point now because joining or not joining does not make much difference.
