Investigating the alignment of the political behavior of the Rouhani government with the mechanisms of the International Crisis Group

Subject Areas : International Relations

Mohamed-Ali Raafat ¹ , Parvizreza Mirlotfi ² , Ahmadreza Taheri ³

1 - Department of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan Branch, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, General Department, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, CIRC Research Center, Zahedan. Iran
3 - Department of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan Branch, Iran

Received: 2022-02-10 Accepted : 2023-03-26 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Nuclear negotiations, Mechanisms, JCPOA, Rouhani administration, International Crisis Group, P5+1,

Abstract :

As the Rouhani administration began its nuclear negotiations with the P5+1, disagreements against various issues, in addition to making it difficult to reach an agreement, prolonged the process. Many NGOs and think tanks offered suggestions on nuclear negotiations and resolving these differences. The International Crisis Group was one of these NGOs that was able to mediate and make recommendations to the parties to the negotiation process and, in the event of a failure of the negotiations, make recommendations that would be reviewed and sometimes accepted by governments, especially the Rouhani administration. Nin Process ultimately led to the Joint Action Plan Agreement (JCPOA) between the parties.This descriptive-explanatory study seeks to answer the question whether there has been coordination with the mechanisms of the International Crisis Group in some strategic decisions of rouhani's government in the domestic and foreign spheres. The resources of this study have been collected in a library. The results show that there is a consistency between the mechanisms and proposals presented by the International Crisis Group and some of the policies and decisions made by rouhani's government. Insistence on accepting some of the JCPOA provisions, such as reducing enrichment volumes, accepting agency inspectors' oversight of nuclear facilities, and some post-JCPOA proposals such as the approval of the F.A.T.F. or prisoner exchanges, etc. This has been in line with the group's recommendations to Rouhani's government.