Brian Hook , the U.S. special envoy for Iran, gestures during an interview in Paris, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Amid growing tensions with the U.S., Iran is poised to push its low-enriched uranium stocks beyond a 300-kilogram limit that is part of the 2015 deal with world powers. The official insists Iran wants to “save the deal” and he urged Europeans to start buying Iranian oil or to give Iran a credit line to keep the accord alive. Iran’s economy is struggling under U.S. sanctions that came into force when President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal. Hook is meeting in Paris with European diplomats who are trying to keep alive the 2015 U.N. deal curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2019 16:20 UTC