{"id":224200,"date":"2019-07-24T03:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224200"},"modified":"2019-07-24T03:26:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:26:05","slug":"france-stresses-need-for-iran-to-respect-nuclear-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/24\/france-stresses-need-for-iran-to-respect-nuclear-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"France stresses need for Iran to respect nuclear accord"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A statement by the French Foreign Ministry said Seyed Abbas Araghchi gave a message to President Emmanuel Macron from Iranian leader Hassen Rouhani. Macron and Rouhani spoke last Thursday. (File Photo: By Fars News Agency, CC BY 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PARIS \u2014 French authorities in a meeting Tuesday with an Iranian envoy stressed the need for Tehran to quickly respect the 2015 nuclear accord it has breached and \u201cmake the needed gestures\u201d to deescalate mounting tensions in the Persian Gulf region.<\/p>\n

A statement by the French Foreign Ministry said Seyed Abbas Araghchi gave a message to President Emmanuel Macron from Iranian leader Hassen Rouhani. Macron and Rouhani spoke last Thursday.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who met with Araghchi, is working with European partners on an observation mission to ensure maritime security in the Gulf, where tensions have mounted after Iran’s seizure last Friday of a U.K.-flagged oil tanker.<\/p>\n

Le Drian made no mention of a Europe-led \u201cmaritime protection mission\u201d announced a day earlier by his British counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, offering instead what seems to be a softer version.<\/p>\n

France is working \u201cat this moment on a European initiative\u201d with Britain and Germany, he told lawmakers, without elaborating. \u201cThis vision is the opposite of the American initiative, which is … maximum pressure\u201d against Iran.<\/p>\n

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes Von der Muhll said at a briefing that the initiative involves \u201cappropriate means of surveillance\u201d aimed at \u201cincreased understanding of the situation at sea\u201d to facilitate traffic in a waterway that is critical to the global economy.<\/p>\n

Iran’s seizure Friday of British oil tanker Steno Impero and its 23-member crew in the Strait of Hormuz aggravated tensions that were already mounting with Iran’s breaching of a 2015 Iran nuclear accord among world powers.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the accord last year, reinstating sanctions on Iran and raising tensions.<\/p>\n

Nations still party to the shaky Iran nuclear deal plan to meet in Vienna on Sunday to see to what extent the agreement can be saved. The European Union said the meeting of China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany, chaired by the EU, \u201cwill examine issues linked to the implementation of the (nuclear deal) in all its aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran began openly exceeding the uranium enrichment levels set in the accord to try to pressure Europe into offsetting the economic pain of U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n

Le Drian stressed the need for diplomacy to de-escalate volatile tensions, which he has said previously could lead to \u201can accident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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