چند نکته درباره نشست چهار جانبه تهران ۱. ایران با برگزاری این نشست خارج از چارچوب پیمان مکه موافقت کرد. در واقع، تهران این ابتکار را در قالب «نشست تهران» پذیرفت، نه پیمان مکه! ۲. ایران نشست تهران را در چارچوب ایده امنیت درون‌زای منطقه‌ای تعریف کرد. به همین دلیل، پرونده‌های منطقه‌ای از جمله یمن، لبنان، فلسطین، امنیت خلیج فارس و تنگه هرمز در دستور گفت‌وگوها قرار گرفت. ۳. در این نشست درباره کاهش تنش‌های منطقه‌ای و پایان جنگ نیز گفت‌وگو شد؛ با این حال، موضع قبلی ایران در برابر آمریکا و شروط هفت‌گانه تهران تغییری نکرد. ۴. در این نشست هیچ گفت‌وگویی درباره پرونده هسته‌ای ایران انجام نشد. ۵. یکی از نتایج احتمالی این نشست می‌تواند پذیرش نگرانی‌های امنیتی ایران و ترتیبات موردنظر تهران در تنگه هرمز (توافق ایران و عمان) باشد؛ البته به شرط آنکه عربستان حسن نیت خود را نشان دهد و مانند قبل کارشکنی نکند! ۶. ایران در پرونده یمن برای میانجی‌گری و کمک به حل بحران آمادگی دارد؛ اما انصارالله شروطی دارد که تا زمان پذیرش آن‌ها از سوی عربستان، جنگ را ادامه خواهد داد! ۷. طرفین در این نشست نگرانی‌های خود را درباره ماجراجویی‌های اسرائیل در منطقه به اشتراک گذاشتند؛ اما این به معنای برخورداری از اهداف و دستورکار واحد نیست! ۸. بسیار زود است در رابطه با نتایج این نشست قضاوت کرد؛ اما به نظر نمی‌رسد اعتماد جایگزین بی‌اعتمادی و همکاری جایگزین رقابت شده باشد! در خاورمیانه کنونی منطق نشست‌ها بیشتر برای مدیریت بحران و تنش یا دوری از تبعات آن است تا حل آن‌ها!

Significant even brave intervention by Oman foreign minister @badralbusaidi at Cambridge calling for the Gulf States to form a non-aggression pact with Iran and Iraq. Says US should no longer be primary provider of security in region, adding external partners have imposed the most damaging of the priorities - "the requirement that Iran be excluded. Not just excluded. Worse. Positioned as the threat against which regional security had to be organised." He argues "What holds us back is that issues which ought to be handled at a regional level by the states of the Gulf themselves, are made more complex, more intractable and sometimes simply impossible to resolve because the region's security arrangements are insufficiently developed. "And they are insufficiently developed because they have relied for too long on the involvement of external powers. "The complications which stand in the way of successful resolutions to both the Iranian nuclear issue and the question of free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz are simply the latest effects of an unstable combination of power projection and dependency in the Gulf. "In other words, the nuclear issue and the Hormuz issue are both impossible to resolve because external powers continue to define the terms of engagement, while regional powers are unable to take collective responsibility for making their own security arrangements and reach a consensus on them". Says Iran "has for nearly half a century been systematically excluded from playing any meaningful role in the security arrangements of the region. "An exclusion with profoundly negative consequences, not just for Iran, but for the region as a whole". He says "Instead of a genuine security structure designed to maintain stable relations between the eight states of the Gulf, an unstable regional system has been constructed on the entirely false perception that there is a fundamental regional antagonism between Iran and the Arab states of the Gulf. "There is no such fundamental antagonism. There are problems, yes, of course. But the plain fact is that Arabs and Persians have lived in peace around the Gulf for centuries. It’s not a matter of whether you’re friendly or hostile to Iran. "Today, Persia is a fact, 93 million people and three thousand years of history. Roughly half of the Gulf littoral. "Any Gulf security architecture that doesn’t include them is inherently unstable. It’s structurally unsound. And recent events expose the terrible cost of allowing the false perception of antagonism and exclusion." "It is us, in the Gulf, who ultimately bear the responsibility for devising, developing and implementing a new regional security structure. The time has come when it no longer makes sense just to blame everyone else. We need to begin a new regional dialogue on Gulf security, and we need to do so before other solutions are imposed on the region which would effectively consolidate the pattern of dependency and exclusion for which we urgently need to find an alternative. What is needed, instead, is a new and inclusive framework, involving all eight Gulf littoral states".

There's some difference of opinion re: Nov. 3, but less than most cycles in the past. Even the most optimistic non-insane Rs are like, "All these Senate races are toss-ups." Even the most optimistic non-insane Ds are like "We like our odds, but we'll believe it when we see it."

هدف زيارة المسؤولين الثلاثة من تحالف مكة إلى طهران: 1. خفض التصعيد 2. تغليب لغة الحوار والدبلوماسية 3. دعم جهود الوساطة التي تقوم بها قطر وباكستان بين إيران والولايات المتحدة.