France's foreign minister said on Wednesday the Iran deal was not dead despite US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out, and French President Emmanuel Macron would speak to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani later in the day. Macron's meeting would be followed by high-level talks between the Iranians and Britain and Germany, as well as France, Le Drian said. So we want to adhere to it and see to it that Iran does too, that Iran behaves with restraint." The 2015 agreement, worked out by the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia, China and Iran, lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear programme. economic sanctions on Iran as he pulled out of "a horrible one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made".

Source: dna May 09, 2018 08:26 UTC