[War] US: Winning the peace

[John Penta]

"Winning the peace"
12 August 2014
Pres. John Williams
USA
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<Washington>

If fighting a war was hard, President Williams wondered, then what the
hell do you call negotiating the peace treaty afterwards?

Absurdly difficult, he decided.

To be fair, the Iranians were in no position to negotiate, really, so
it was more of the Allies' sort of dictating the terms and trying not
to sow the seeds for another war.

For now, it was a matter of getting the contracts for the
reconstruction of Iran's oil industry out to bid, deciding a general
framework for the treaty negotiating team, and planning the
reconstitution of Iran's governmental structure.

The first matter was easiest. The US Army Corps of Engineers, on
behalf of the Allied Control Council, would put out the mostly
straightforward contracts to rebuild Iran's oil infrastructure piece
by piece. Fixed price contracts, they would include bonuses for time -
the faster Iran was up and supplying oil, the more the award would be,
up to 10% of contract value if the work was completed by the earliest
(and most difficult to achieve) "drop dead date".

Naturally, they would be open bids.

The third was mostly easy, too. Mostly, what was required was election
of a new Majlis, something hopefully achievable, with internationally
supervised and monitored elections, within 6 months. Elections were,
after all, straightforward.

The second matter, though, framing the instructions for the US treaty
negotiation team, was hard enough as to balance out the other two
matters.

The details would be left to the State Department, he decided, but the
general principles would be as follows:

1. Settlement and demarcation of all of Iran's borders by the UN, to
include maritime borders;
2. Light reparations to Azerbaijan - nothing that would cripple Iran,
but enough to provide a healthy boost to Azerbaijan's reconstruction;
3. Disestablishment of the IRGC, the Ministry of Virtue, and other
instruments of theocratic control;
4. Destruction of all nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.

Now he had to decide what to do about Romania.
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Actions:
1. Begin the process of rebuilding Iran's oil industry.
2. Issue general framework for peace treaty negotiations.
3. Begin process to elect a new Iranian parliament.