Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik German Institute for International and Security Affairs (original) (raw)

Abstract

Cooperation between the European Union and the United States regarding the Iranian nuclear file has evolved from an implicit good-cop-bad-cop type of role distribution towards an approach where -at least from an Iranian perspective -Americans and Europeans join in the latter role. At the time of writing, the EU-3 and the US were both pressuring for a more explicit language in the UN Security Council whereas Russia and China had taken on the role of the friendly negotiators. However, despite the more coordinated approach of the Europeans and the Americans an elaborate "transatlantic strategy for Iran" has not emerged.

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