The prospect of removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the US blacklist inflames the region

An article in the British Financial Times reports that the prospect of America removing Iran's Revolutionary Guard from the list of "foreign terrorism" raises concern in the region, and that Iran's opponents in the Middle East are uniting against it.

And the newspaper's writer, David Gardner, says in

that efforts to revive the historic nuclear agreement with Iran may have reached a dead end.

He referred to Russia's recent sudden request - one of the original signatories and enablers of the agreement - with the exception of Iran to apply the sanctions imposed by the West on it (on Russia) if the two countries deal economically, as he referred to the suspension of Josep Borrell, the foreign policy official in the European Union who mediated negotiations with Iran in Vienna, mediated temporarily, while stressing that "the final text is basically ready and on the table."

The new dilemma

He added that the new dilemma on the way to reviving the nuclear agreement is Iran's demand for America to remove the designation of the Revolutionary Guards imposed by former US President Donald Trump in 2019, pointing out that the possibility of the Joe Biden administration doing so made the Middle East tense and inflamed.

Gardner explained that this requirement is outside the framework of the nuclear agreement, but as the original nuclear agreement showed, it was impossible for foreign companies to invest in Iran without falling into the breach of the US Treasury, which at the time threatened to exclude anyone dealing with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards from the financial system. in dollars.

Difficult for Tehran and Washington

He also clarified that many initially believed wrongly that the Iranian demand was the work of hardliners who do not want a deal, but it is obvious that the Iranian leader, Ali Khamenei, wants an agreement, because it will be difficult for him to be seen as a retreat from the defense of the Revolutionary Guards institution, necessary for his system.

It is also very difficult for Biden to be seen as rewarding the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which "is behind the devastating missile and drone attacks across the Levant and the Gulf."

Gardner continues: However, officials in the Middle East say that the United States is trying to find a way to remove this dilemma by writing off the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in exchange for an Iranian commitment to stop the escalation of its aggression in the region.

Many may have missed an initial report to that effect on the Axios news site last week.

But as soon as Israel confirmed the veracity of the news, it leaked all the details it had and denounced it.

A common front against Iran

Subsequently, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and de facto ruler of the UAE, quickly convened a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

The writer described this summit as having the elements of a common front against Iran, saying that these countries have already seen how Iran, which is subject to the toughest embargo ever, before the embargo on Russia, has significantly expanded its regional influence since Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement, adding that sanctions Trump on Iran backfired on the Gulf region, which naively believed that America would protect it from Iranian retaliation.