Die US-Regierung von Joseph Biden hat die Möglichkeit, mit der Wiederbelebung des Nuklearabkommens (JCPOA) die Beziehungen zum Iran zu normalisieren, nachdem die Präsidentschaft Trump den Persischen Golf an den Rand des Krieges geführt hat. Dazu ist es aber auch notwendig, dass der Iran selbst eine Neuorientierung seiner Politik vornimmt.
Univ. Prof. Dr. Heinz Gärtner is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and at Danube University. He was academic director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs. He has held various Fulbright Fellowships and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University. He was Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. Among other things, Gärtner chairs the Strategy and Security advisory board of the Austrian Armed Forces and the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Peace (IIP) in Vienna. He has published widely on international security, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, US foreign policy, geopolitics, Iran, and the Middle East.