The proposal from Oman’s Foreign Minister for a regional security and development architecture may have had a precursor last June, when negotiations were also being mediated and pursued, prior to the “bolt from the blue” U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites with B2s and 30,000-pound bombs.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists last June 2 published “A Regional Nuclear Consortium in the Persian Gulf”—the possible precursor of Omani Prime Minister Sultan Haitham’s proposal—by four authors, one of them Seyyed Hussein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and nuclear negotiator currently working with Princeton University’s Science and Global Security Program. (Mousavian just yesterday, March 21, was interviewed on CNN, where he forecast that the U.S.-Israeli current strategy seeks regime change and produces “endless war” instead.)
This June 2, 2025 proposal was “a regional nuclear consortium in the Persian Gulf as the basis of a new nuclear deal between the United States and Iran.” It featured Iran taking on the mission of uranium enrichment for the entire Gulf Cooperation Council, Iraq, and Jordan, under IAEA and other inspections, to spread nuclear power through the region. Iran and Saudi Arabia were cited as the two states immediately wanting nuclear development (the U.A.E. also has a need for fuel).
