00:00Is this a case of both sides making maximalist demands,
00:04but Iran being maximalist, all they need to do is survive?
00:07The US needs to win.
00:11Iranian reaction about Hormuz happened after the second war.
00:18Hormuz was open, no problem, for 47 years after the revolution.
00:24And since Iranians, they really felt this is existential war,
00:30for them, then they have decided to go to expanding the conflict.
00:37However, if there is going to be a sustainable deal,
00:43first of all, the most important issue between Iran and the US
00:49is neither nuclear or human rights or democracy and so on.
00:52It's about the regional issues.
00:55Iran and the US, they should agree on one major principle,
01:00that both, they respect the other side's regional interest to end
01:07regional conflicts as a principle.
01:10Second is about Iran and GCC.
01:13We have 47 years of difficult situations.
01:16And the best solution is to have a new security and cooperation structure
01:24in the Persian Gulf, where eight countries, they would cooperate,
01:31maintaining the security, stability of the Persian Gulf,
01:35nuclear weapon free zone in the Persian Gulf,
01:38arms control arrangement, either nuclear or WMD, free zone in the Persian Gulf,
01:46conventional arms arrangement in the Persian Gulf, security of maritime,
01:51and even the Strait of Hormuz.
01:53Strait of Hormuz, legally, internationally, is in the water territory of Iran and Oman.
02:01I mean, although this is international waterway, but legally, internationally,
02:07it is in water territory of Iran and Oman.
02:11In 1974, Iran and Oman signed agreement that any arrangement should be agreed between Iran and Oman.
02:19This is during Shah, this is 1974.
02:22That's why Iran and Oman has a start.
02:24Nevertheless, I personally believe that this should be seen,
02:29any arrangement within the regional cooperation system, which I am talking,
02:34in the Persian Gulf, because this is part of Persian Gulf.
02:37Okay.
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