More than 500 parliamentarians from France, Germany and the UK have written to their US counterparts urging them to persuade Donald Trump not to abandon the Iran nuclear deal. “The US government threatens to abandon the JCPOA, although Iran fulfils its obligations under the agreement,” the letter said. France, Germany and the UK negotiated the landmark deal in 2015 that lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for strict limits on its nuclear programme, and are using all their leverage to try to persuade Trump that the deal is salvageable. They added that if the deal broke down it would be nigh on impossible to assemble another grand coalition built around sanctions against Iran. We are stressing that issues outside the JCPOA, such as the Iran missile program or behaviour in Yemen must be handled separately.

Source: The Guardian April 19, 2018 13:14 UTC