Press TV has interviewed Seyyed Mustapha Khoshcheshm, a political analyst from Tehran, and Jim Walsh, with the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Boston, to discuss the new phase of implementing a nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, including the US, the UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany.
Khoshcheshm says the United States and its Western allies have showed that they are not very serious about implementing their agreements with Iran as the trend has been experienced for the past 20 years.
He maintains that the Iranian side should be “pessimistic” about the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the part of the Western side. The P5+1 and Iran finalized the text of the JCPOA agreement in the Austrian capital Vienna on July 14.
Referring to previous cooperation from the Iranian side on the nuclear issue, he notes, the Islamic Republic signed an agreement with three European countries – the UK, Germany and France – over a decade ago and Iran abided by the accord, but the three European states did not comply with their obligations.
Walsh, for his part, thinks the nuclear agreement between Iran and the six world powers is a “win-win” deal.
Pointing to Iran’s cooperation to implement the nuclear agreement, the researcher says he is “very hopeful about this agreement.”
Despite the fact that the United States and Iran experienced so many incidents in the past to distrust each other, he argues, sides have managed to sign a detailed nuclear agreement, which is a “multilateral” accord.