To save the Iran nuclear deal, the European Union and the E3 — Britain, France and Germany — must bend the space-time continuum
As a result, the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, and his team, who are tasked with coordinating the effort, have already waved their wand and created a cloud of confusion over whether the clock has even started counting toward the first 15-day deadline in the mediation process formally known as the"dispute resolution mechanism" or DRM.
On Tuesday, when the E3 announced, after months of deliberations, that they were finally triggering the DRM, some European officials said the clock had started. But the EU said that wasn't necessarily the case, and that Borrell and his team were still in consultations to determine how the process would move forward.
In any event, there is serious motivation for all the hocus-pocus to save the deal: Only by preserving the JCPOA can the Europeans also preserve for themselves a direct role in the most dangerous conflict in the Middle East. Should the JCPOA collapse, Washington and Tehran would be in a head-to-head confrontation, with the Europeans left as bystanders.
Europeans believe Russia, China and Iran want to save the accord, they are also worried that political events could easily spin out of control. "We could have triggered the DRM after Phase 4," a senior French diplomat said."We had in-depth and very useful discussions with Russians and Chinese.
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