New ideas needed to help end dispute over Iran nuclear issue: analysts

TEHRAN,June 27(MNA) – AFP on Monday quoted a number of political analysts as saying that the six major powers negotiating with Iran need to get more “creative” if they want to help resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program. Iran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) held a new round of talks in Moscow on June 18 and 19 and agreed to hold expert meetings in Istanbul on July 3. “We are not going to find a way out of this stalemate without some creative thinking, and it is hard to do creative thinking in formal set-piece meetings,” said Mark Fitzpatrick from the International Institute for Strategic Studies think-tank. Rouzbeh Parsi from the EU Institute for Security Studies said that given that the 5+1 group includes the very same five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, a “more imaginative, less rigid handling” of its resolutions would be “helpful”. Mark Hibbs, proliferation expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told AFP that “the six powers, but especially the Western group, have to overcome their anxiety about making a comprehensive bargain with Iran.” “… there has to be creative diplomacy, there has to be flexibility, and both sides have to put something on the table that builds confidence that there is going to be a process,” Hibbs stated.