Following the brand new interim agreement regarding Iran's nuclear enrichment program, the world finds itself in an awkward position. Do we applaud an unexpected step towards denuclearization? Or do we remain skeptical of a skinny 6-month interim agreement? The truth is that both things are somewhat true. For the first time since 2003, the international community, especially the P5+1 (United States, France, Great Britain, Russia, China and Germany), successfully managed to conclude an agreement with the previously uncooperative and intransigent Tehran. But at the same time, the agreement requires Iran to dilute enriched uranium and block the development of centrifuges and reactors for just 6 months. In exchange, the UN agrees to ease some sanctions on Iran's petrochemical exports and allow access to previously frozen bank accounts. However, the Iranian side of the deal seems strangely lopsided. With an estimated relief of only $7 billion for the Iranian economy (a small fraction of their GDP) and with the brutal sanctions on Iranian oil still in place, it is difficult to imagine Tehran smiling about the deal. Therefore, the agreement must lead us to believe that the interim agreement is neither a revolutionary symbol of peace nor a fragile foreign policy framework. But rather, the conclusion of the November 24 debate indicates a slight but potential shift in Middle Eastern politics, a shift that the United States and certainly disadvantaged Iran must recognize. So what is changing? Are Iran and the Middle East finally emerging from the Cold War in the Mediterranean? Probably not. However, with the election of reformist Hassan Rouhani in June 2013 and the fateful September 27 telephone conversation between US President Barack Obama and Rouhani (the first conversation b... , it is a fundamental aspect of their economy and as long as this will not be overcome, hopes for cooperation are limited. And therefore, these nations must understand that this 6-month grace period is trying to open another door, that of honest trust incentives to work with the international community to improve its faltering economy, as Rouhani has promised, will need the cooperation of the rest of the world. And if the world wishes to maintain and promote peace in the Middle East, it will we must work with one of the leading nations in the region It's been a long time since 1957, when the United States and Iran both signed a Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement to promote cooperation in research on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, this agreement and the next 6 months. it will show the world, perhaps, that the step Iran is taking is indeed in the right direction.