State Department: Middle East needs 10-year plan including pressure on Iran, improved US relations with Sunni countries

The international community allotted the Iran agreement at least 10 years, a time frame that, according to a State Department official, may be necessary "to stabilize the region and to implement the two-state solution."
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US Secretary of State John Kerry gestures upon his arrival for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, in regards to cease-fire talks with Israel, July 23, 2014. - REUTERS/Abbas Momani/Pool
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While all international attention is focused now on the upcoming implementation process of the Iran deal, many more diplomatic efforts and agreements will be required for the Middle East to stabilize. Regional stability will depend on how fundamentalist terrorism is dealt with, no less so by a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Strategic policy analysts in the State Department are dealing these days with the ramifications of the Iran deal on regional stability.

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