How do the Middle East regain its world leading role, when it comes to human intellectual development?
It does so, by regaining some of the old ideas and practices.
Let’s talk about Iran. The Iranian constitution is made with the inspiration of Plato. It’s a republic, has clear inspiration from the ancient city of Sparta with its overseers (ephors) and a layered democratic assembly.
Plato didn’t invent most of the principles that he wrote in his books. Plato means “the broad”, in other words, he is, mainly, documenting ideas that was already made up, and had thousands years of traction already, in the Middle East.
The idea of the law was made in Babylon, the idea of good was made in Persia, and so on.
Politics means rule of a city (polis). The city states of Iraq was the birthplace of those ideas; Babylon, Eridu, Ur. Abraham CAME from Ur, a city in current day Iraq.
With this knowledge and UNDERSTANDING what the ancients were trying, that of EMULATING the heavens on earth, we can INSPIRE the current administration in Iran in UNDERSTANDING that mission.
Because what does g-d want? He wants a happy people as in the heavens.
THAT is the mission of any spiritual leader, to make people happy.
I have pointed to the subduement of the Iranian people, as the main source of unhappiness. Mostly because I know exactly how that is.
But trying to figure out, how to make people happy in Iran is THE main mission.
Why not make that the leading goal of the negotiations?
To make the people of Iran happy.
G-d bless the happiness of the Iranian people, may they be content.