Here are the ABCs of a reasonable Iran cease-fire deal
Post Editorial Board
What must Iran agree to in any cease-fire deal?
The headline concessions are obvious: Hand over all nuclear material, destroy all nuke capabilities, open the Strait of Hormuz and stop killing your own people.
(We’d add “destroy all missile capabilities,” but the US and Israeli strikes have already done most of that.)
Tehran would also need to commit to cooperate in serious verification and monitoring of its compliance, with the details to be worked out within a set number of weeks en route to a full peace agreement — but definitely to include “anywhere, anytime” inspections.
The price for peace should also include Tehran’s commitment to internal reforms: guarantees of rights to peaceful protest, for starters.
In all: Washington needs to hear a genuine Iranian cry of “uncle,” not promises the regime can readily discard once the bombing stops.
Again, we’re simply talking about cease-fire terms here, not a full peace deal, and even that deal won’t be the last word.
The overall goal, a future Iran that is not a fanatical terror regime, will take prolonged effort — including something like the 1975 Helsinki Accords, under which the West held the Soviet Union to a standard of upholding all human-rights norms: That opened to door for new emigration rights, glasnost and reform.
But right now, with no popular uprising in sight, the short-term aim is a world free of Iranian terror — a lasting, physical defanging of Tehran’s offensive capabilities.
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