These days a guy of ours, one of those hopefuls that provide fiscal investment services around the world and had been working in Turkey for years, is attempting an important step.

He is traveling to Tehran in order to discover the country’s economy and determine what sort of financial activity growth potential exits in the once-isolated theocratic state of Iran.

Such an attempt would be considered even just a few months ago.

However, after the new Iranian leadership opened up to the West and in conjunction with the negotiations in Geneva and the first agreements for nuclear inspections, a different climate is emerging regarding the financial rebirth of the country and the whole of the Middle East. Our guy is rushing to take advantage of this opportunity that could benefit the entire planet.

The case of Tehran is indicative of the changes taking place in the world.

It is clear that the superpowers are building new strategies and are reshaping the global map of finances.

The financial crisis and the dangers that were highlighted changed the ideas and understandings on managing global problems, including financial growth.

The Americans do not want to entangle their soldiers in ground operations. They feel that the American Navy’s nuclear-power aircraft carriers are enough to enforce their military hegemony on the planet, while realizing that in the future they will have a greater need for peaceful developing financial zones, rather than ones gripped by war.

That is why they accepted and offered Russian diplomacy a more active role in relation to the civil conflict in Syria and in the management of the long-term crisis with Tehran.

It also clear that the USA wants to strengthen its bonds with the Eurozone, support the great American and European market and establish the domination of the North Atlantic economic alliance.

Obviously they consider peace in the greater area from Morocco to Pakistan to be critical. In Northern Africa and the Middle East about 300 million people live with a culture of trade and an annual gross income of about 2 trillion dollars, tat could easily become 3 or even 4 trillion dollars, provided peace and a fairer wealth distribution prevail.

All analysts estimate that the growth in the greater Southeast Mediterranean has the potential to support the global economy.

One could argue that those in power are redesigning the world after the great financial crisis.

It is not a coincidence that the main subject at the Davos forum is about “reshaping the world”.

Under these circumstances, if we are truly living through a reshaping-the-world phase, a potential Greek retreat and isolation would constitute an unforgivable historical accident.

That is why moderate approaches must prevail, especially those that support the quickest exit from the crisis.

Greece cannot be the weakest link in this upcoming Levantine globalization. The open and European Greece is not allowed to waste the opportunity that even the theocratic Iran is earning.

Antonis Karakousis

– Originally published in the Sunday print edition