By Vestnik Kavkaza
NATO will not give up its intention to deploy a full-fledged missile defense system in Europe, despite the agreement reached with Tehran that makes it impossible for Iran to develop nuclear weapons. At the same time, Washington is considering scenarios of military action against Tehran - the Pentagon has improved and tested an anti-bunker bomb capable of neutralizing any nuclear facility in Iran.
Experts are still cautious about stating success in the negotiations in Lausanne, reminding that they have resulted in master contracts rather than comprehensive agreements.
However a senior researcher of the Center for the Study of the Middle East at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Vladimir Sazhin, hopes that the sanctions will be lifted and Iran will return to normal development: "After the lifting of sanctions Iran needs foreign investment in all industries, and high technology. These can be provided by Western Europe, Japan, to some extent the United States. There are hints that after all these decisions the Americans may create a sort of trade mission in Tehran. Accordingly, an Iranian commercial center in Washington may be created."
Iran's economy requires a focus on advanced technologies and on modern economic levels, that would result in Iran’s decisive shift to the West. "This is what the radicals are afraid of. They understand Iran’s turn to the West in economic terms is bound to happen, and this can cause the dissolution of Iran’s basic ideological principles in all spheres. But life is life, and the economy is the economy. One can do nothing about it," Sazhin says.
Moscow is also well aware of this. Immediately after the completion of the negotiations in Lausanne, the Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, said that the Russian automotive, aviation and shipbuilding industries are ready to offer joint projects to be implemented in Iran after the lifting of sanctions against the country.
