We prove that if (M, g) is a compact locally irreducible Riemannian manifold with nonnegative isotropic curvature, then one of the following possibilities hold: (i) M admits a metric with positive isotropic curvature (ii) (M, g) is isometric to a locally symmetric space (iii) (M, g) is Kähler and biholomorphic to CP n. This is implied by the following two results: (i) Let (M, g) be a compact, l...